40 Made ni Shitai 10 no Koto – Eng Sub
- Drama: 40 Made ni Shitai 10 no Koto
- Country: Japan
- Episodes: 12
- Aired: Jul 5, 2025 – ?
- Aired On: Saturday
- Original Network: BS TV Tokyo, TV Aichi, TV Hokkaido, TV Osaka, TV Setouchi, TV Tokyo, TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting
- Duration: 30 min.
Tojo Suzume, who has been single for over 10 years and spends his days just going back and forth between his office and home, realizes that there are only three months left until his 40th birthday. Suzume makes a list of “10 things I want to do before I’m 40” due to the sudden sense of impatience he feels at the turning point of his life. “Takoyaki party,” “Change your taste in clothes,” “Find a lover…” However, the list is accidentally seen by Tanaka Keiji, a handsome junior subordinate!
However, at Keiji’s suggestion, the two decide to fulfill the list together. Their mundane days change into fun days spent together. And they become “special people” that transcend the relationship of boss and subordinate and the age difference. This is a fascinating story about the slowly closing distance between the two and the love story of an adult who falls in love for the first time in a long time!
I really like this series. The japanese do a good job with the age gap troupe. This is my third office age gap japanese series and I have loved them all.
what is all the age gap ones have you seen
“They’re about 10 to 15 years apart , but Tanaka Keiji’s exact age is actually unknown .”
Shaw3181, I have seen Old Fashion Cupcake and Senpai, This can’t be love. Old fashion cupcake is by far my favorite.
YES!!! 💖🧡💛💚💙💜
10 Things to Do Before Turning 40
REVIEW
Well, first thing: I absolutely did NOT want to watch this, and I’ll be frank why. I felt it would hit way to much “home”, being a older gay guy. I was… afraid to watch it. I could SO related with Suzume, feeling old and average and rather not making someone younger unhappy by having ME. It was as if I could feel inside of him.
Well, but how was it? Japanese BL series are often known for their more goofy approach, mimicking the funny acting of the manga their BL series often are taken from. Something I did not mind. But this… this was serious. I felt the “dramatic episode 11” was really always looming over it, because I so knew how I would have felt in Suzume’s place. But there is something someone wise a long time ago, when I was a young gay man with full hair and Berlin was a village with a well: That YOU do not like to be your ideal partner is normal, it would be narcissist if it were so, but that doesn’t mean you cannot be someone else’s type!
Well, this was a fairy tale and reality is reality. But every good fairy tale gives a bit insight into what can be, and in that good storytellers are important to life. And this was a story of value and meaning. To not give up, to allow life to surprise you and ultimately, to dare to make a leap. I had consciously stopped at Ep. 10, wishing to watch 11 and 12 back to back, and I did not regret this decision, so I avoided the sad night after the usual sad 11. All in all it was a beautiful series with just the right balance of speed and depth, and the only thing I had wished was a 13th episode to see them being accepted. But that, maybe, is a story for another night. 🙂
Daring to go into a somewhat risky area, as such finding no flaw as the aforementioned, I can give it it good conscious a true:
9/10