Series synopsis
Sweat and Soap, also known as あせとせっけん is a Japanese comedy television series that premiered on MBS on February 4, 2022. It ended on April 1, 2022. It stars Yuno Ohara, Kanta Sato, Haruka Kudo and Ayaka Nakata.
A love story between Natori Kotaro who works as a product development planner at a cosmetics and bath products company and has a fetish for smells and Yaeshima Asako who works in the accounting department and has an inferiority complex about her body smell when she sweats.
Premise
A love story between Natori Kotaro who works as a product development planner at a cosmetics and bath products company and has a fetish for smells and Yaeshima Asako who works in the accounting department and has an inferiority complex about her body smell when she sweats.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Yuno Ohara as Yaeshima Asako
- Kanta Sato as Natori Kotaro
- Haruka Kudo as Ichinose Korisu
- Ayaka Nakata as Sakashita Maki
- Mansaku Ikeuchi as Okura Jin
- Kazuto Mokudai as Yaeshima Keita
- Shuzo Ohira as Suzumura Yuji
- Yusaku Mori as Hashitani Osamu
Episodes
This series spans 1 season with 9 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 9 | February 4, 2022 | April 1, 2022 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Episode 1 Kotaro Natori (Kanta Sato), who works as a product development planner at the cosmetics and bath products manufacturer 'Lilia Drop', is the ultimate 'smell fetish' who specializes in sniffing scents. One day, he encountered a very worrisome 'smell' in the corridor of the company and approached to be guided, and there was Asako Yaeshima (Yuno Ohara) who works in the accounting department! Asako, who had been teased as a 'sweat child' when she was a child with heavy sweating, she felt a complex with sweat and smell, and she kept her eyes open and secretly deodorant products in the bathroom. Is a daily routine. She took great care of the smell today, and as she walked down her corridor ... suddenly she smelled from behind her- !? Kotaro said, 'I was surprised at your smell.' Will be. Asako, who she thought was suspicious, left the place ... After that, Kotaro appeared in front of Asako many times, and she was supposed to smell every day for a week for product development. |
February 4, 2022 |
| 2 |
Episode 2 Asako (Yuno Ohara) spends the night with a man for the first time with the momentum. What does Kotaro (Kanta Sato) think about last night ... I just remembered that I couldn't stop sweating and couldn't get a job at all! Okura (Mansaku Ikeuchi), the accounting manager who couldn't see Asako's appearance, urges her to leave early. As Asako walks down her corridor, she happens to see Kotaro walking with Korisu (Haruka Kudo) and Suzumura (Shuzo Ohira) from the Product Development Department. On the other hand, Kotaro sniffs the 'smell' and appears at Asako, but Asako who thinks too much can not stop her sweat and she collapses-!? Asako, in her biggest pinch. And it's time for the two of them to finally realize their charms, not just the 'smell'. |
February 11, 2022 |
| 3 |
Episode 3 Asako (Yuno Ohara) has witnessed Kotaro (Kanta Sato) happily talking with Korisu (Haruka Kudo). Even though she became 'she', she wasn't confident in herself Asako couldn't stop her bad delusions! Meanwhile, Asako had to talk with her about the receipt that came to the accounting department. And, according to her circumstances, I decided to go to a table tennis izakaya as an 'exchange meeting' in the product development department and the accounting department. Kotaro and Asako act so that they don't get dating ... Meanwhile, Kotaro and Korisu are going on a business trip for 3 nights and 4 days alone, and Asako's anxiety is in an extreme state! On the other hand, the two who went on a business trip had an unexpected development-?! |
February 18, 2022 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | MBS |
|---|---|
| First aired | February 4, 2022 |
| Last aired | April 1, 2022 |
| Runtime | 24 minutes |
| Status | ended |
| Schedule | Thursday at 00:59:00 |