Kei x Yaku: Abunai Aibou

First I learned Chinese honorifics, then Korean honorifics, then Thai. It seems now I have to learn Japanese ones. And it all started with corvidology’s post about the Japanese drama Kei×Yaku: Abunai Aibou. I read it on Saturday and thought “ok it sounds good, let’s watch the 1st episode”. That 1st episode turned into three more episodes on Saturday, four episodes on Sunday and the last two on Monday. As you can guess I fell in love hard. :)


Two main characters are the young yakuza leader Hanabusa Shiro and Kunishita Ichiro from the Public Security Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department.

Ichiro is investigating the disappearance and probable death of his partner and mentor Nakaba Rion, a cold case that was considered closed three years ago. But he’s ordered by his superior to drop that case and he is assigned to investigate Hanabusa Shiro. They soon discover that they are trying to solve the same case. Nakaba Rion is Shiro’s older sister - they were both in the same orphanage and grew so close that they consider themselves to be siblings.

Shiro and Ichiro join forces in secret to investigate the case, which also means them starting to live together in episode 2. And that means a lot of domestic fluff. Here is the example of said domestic fluff – a few gifs from episode 6 I found on tumblr.

There are always short post-credit scenes in each episode, which are pure domestic fluff. And there is also a lot of delicious hurt/comfort in this drama.

More below with minor spoilers

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This drama is on dailmotion with English subs – there are links in corvidology’s post. And here are the links to the official version with English subs on Bilibili, but it’s available only in some South East Asian countries.