Where and when to stream ‘At 25:00, in Akasaka’ season 2? Full release schedule, airtime, plot, cast, & all you need to know
By Shreya Jha
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The Japanese boys’ love series At 25:00, in Akasaka has returned for its second season, premiering on TV Tokyo on October 2, 2025 at 12:30 am JST. Streaming access will be available on U-NEXT shortly after the broadcast.
Meanwhile, GagaOOLala will carry the series internationally, except in Korea and Japan. The series will also be streamed on Net mo TV Tokyo. For overseas audiences, Bilibili will upload episodes with English subtitles. The season includes a total of 11 episodes, with new episodes airing every Thursday through December. The release dates for all the episodes are listed below.
Actors Kiita Komagine and Taisuke Niihara are back as Asami Hayama and Yuki Shirasaki. The story continues with the two leads now in a relationship, dividing time between rising careers and private life. As filming begins on the project Daytime Dream, an unforeseen event disrupts their bond.
The arc adapts the popular “stage production” storyline from the manga. Direction duties shift this time, with Yuka Yasukawa (My Love Story With Yamada-kun at Lv999), Shinju Funabiki (My Personal Weatherman), and Takashi Haga (Me & My Brother’s Mistress) leading behind the camera. Returning writers Miho Aotsuka and Kumiko Asō, both attached to Rent-A-Girlfriend’s live-action, continue scripting.
Takuma Usa returns as Hajime Sakuma, Shōma Nagumo as Yamase Kazuma, Atsushi Hashimoto as Shota Shinoda, Moemi Katayama as Akeno Kei, Kenzō Fukutsu as Daisuke Makita, Uchu Imagawa as Asuka Kawada, and Yūshin Shinohara as Nozomu Mihara in supporting roles.
New cast members of At 25:00, in Akasaka season 2 include Makoto Nakamura as Keiichiro, Yoshihisa Ishida as Takashi Fujioka, Marie Machida as Reiko Nozawa, Akiko Hinagata as Haruka Hayama, and Omi Natsuki as Keita Kuroki.
More about At 25:00, in Akasaka manga & season 1
At 25:00, in Akasaka’s original manga, licensed in English by Seven Seas Entertainment, introduces Yuki Shirasaki as an up-and-coming actor cast opposite his former schoolmate, now superstar Asami Hayama. Eager to prepare, Shirasaki heads to a gay bar to study his character, only to bump into Hayama.
The night changes when Hayama suggests they strike a “friends with benefits” arrangement, complicating both their careers and personal lives. Hiroko Natsuno’s manga began in November 2017 inside Gōgai On BLUE, a boys’ love magazine issued every two months. By April 2018, it shifted to the main On BLUE magazine.
Though the initial storyline wrapped in October 2018, a side tale started in December of the same year and has been released irregularly since. Shodensha put out the fourth compiled book in December 2022. In 2023, the manga secured Best Series at the Chil Chil BL Awards.
The TV version of At 25:00, in Akasaka follows Shirasaki, a struggling theater actor who lands a part in a gay drama. His co-star turns out to be Hayama, his old university clubmate who has since become a popular name. Season 1 earlier aired on TV Tokyo between April 19 and June 21, 2024, under the channel’s MokuDra 24 slot. The Japanese series ranked at the top on the platform throughout its broadcast.
While seeking inspiration, Shirasaki runs into Hayama at a gay hangout. A kiss between the two changes the dynamic and leaves Shirasaki caught between personal emotions and work demands. Season 1 was overseen by Takahiro Horie and Ryō Kawasaki.
Notably, GagaOOLala and TV Tokyo, a Japanese television network, came together as production partners to create the BL drama At 25:00, in Akasaka. This marks the first official collaboration between the two companies on producing a BL series.
