FANYStudio Announces Four New Vertical Short Dramas for FANY :D, Including Three BL Titles

NTT DOCOMO Studio & Live, Inc. (dSNL) has announced four new titles for its vertical short drama app FANY :D under the video business brand FANYStudio. The titles will be released sequentially from Thursday, April 23 to Tuesday, May 12, 2026. In an unprecedented lineup, three of the four works are based on BL (Boys’ Love), portraying love and conflict between men across multiple genres. The slate explores the expressive potential of BL through fantasy, youth drama, romantic comedy, and period-drama settings. In recent years, BL content has rapidly expanded its fan base not only in Japan but also across Asia, Europe, and North America. dSNL is responding to this trend with a group of BL works that make full use of the short drama format. The lineup includes a fantasy BL that begins with cohabitation with a ghost, a youth BL set on a Shakespearean stage, a romantic comedy BL about childhood friends reconnecting, and a period BL involving reincarnation and power struggles. Each story has a distinct worldview while capturing the moment when unspoken feelings begin to move. The new titles are My Transparent Roommate (BL/Fantasy, launching April 23), Viola, Who Was Inside You (BL/Youth, launching April 30), After-School Meals, Just the Two of Us (BL/Romantic Comedy, launching May 7), and Forbidden Management Techniques (Romance/Comedy, launching May 12). The first three follow, respectively, a high school student’s strange cohabitation with a ghostly young man, a shy university student chosen to star in a Shakespeare play who develops feelings for the drama club president, and estranged childhood friends who reconnect through cooking together. Forbidden Management Techniques follows Makoto Negishi, who fails to find a job and loses his part-time work before drifting into a hostess-style adult entertainment shop specializing in female-teacher cosplay, where an encounter with Karen changes the course of his life. Key features of the release include a multi-genre BL rollout across fantasy, youth drama, and romantic comedy, broadening access for both existing fans and new viewers; a dense release schedule of four titles over roughly three weeks at a pace of one to two works per week; and a response to growing global demand for BL content, especially in Asia, with overseas platform expansion being pursued in parallel. The vertical short drama market is growing rapidly worldwide, and BL in particular has gained passionate support across Asia. dSNL aims to lead this growth market by combining NTT DOCOMO’s robust telecommunications infrastructure with Yoshimoto Kogyo’s creative capabilities, supplying content at scale in both quality and volume. Going forward, the company plans to further accelerate continuous releases while expanding creative expression through AIGC technologies, continuously delivering innovative entertainment from Tokyo to the world. FANY :D is a vertical short drama app built around the concept of “a short drama app that unleashes human desire.” Episodes run around one to three minutes, with the first several episodes available for free before shifting to pay-per-view. NTT DOCOMO Studio & Live is a joint venture established by NTT DOCOMO, one of Japan’s largest telecommunications companies, and Yoshimoto Kogyo, one of Japan’s largest entertainment companies. The company develops IP rights centered on video and music, supplies content to streaming operators, expands entertainment businesses, promotes secondary use of its own IP, and distributes content globally. In video, it operates under the FANYStudio name across variety shows, dramas, films, and other visual content.