History Series / RealFake

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Reijiro converses in English several times through the series. He has an obvious accent but his pronunciation and grammar is quite good and very natural.

* IllBoy: Yuusuke has an unspecified illness that has lingered since he was a child and caused him to be held back a year in school. As an adult he manages it well enough to be in an idol group, but he's on medication and the symptoms occasionally resurface regardless. The symptoms include coughing and chest pain, indicating a problem with his lungs.

** Masayuki and Nagisa already had a bit of HoYay in the first series, but 2nd Stage turns it UpToEleven when it reveals that despite the group moving into a much larger, permanent home with enough bedrooms for everyone, the two are still choosing to sleep in the same bed.

* DrivingQuestion: What happened to Akane?

!''Unmarked spoilers'' are present on this page, due to several characters being [[WalkingSpoiler walking spoilers]].

* AmbiguouslyGay: Akane and Moriya's relationship greatly resembles two people who had unresolved crushes on eachother in highschool and then reluctantly drifted apart, still carrying a torch for the other even 12 years later.

* BadLiar: While the others search for hidden cameras, Reijiro struggles to lie to Moriya when he's told to keep him occupied, very nearly blowing their cover.
* BluffingTheMurderer: In the end, Moriya is able to catch the one responsible using this technique.

* ChildhoodFriends: Reijiro and Rin as well as Akane and Moriya. Borderline cases are Yuusuke and Nagisa and Yuusuke and Kakeru, as they met in either middleschool or highschool.

* EverybodyDidIt: Played with. Everyone in the group is responsible for Akane's disappearance. But they're actually hiding Akane to help him and he's perfectly safe.

* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: Pretty much the attitude of everyone in Stellar CROWNS, until TheReveal happens and the audience finds out that this was mostly an act.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Moriya's very aggressive in getting dirt on the group and he invades their privacy by planting hidden cameras in their house, but this is only because Akane is his old friend and he thinks one of the group may have kidnapped or murdered him. His real personality, seen in flashbacks and after TheReveal, is much kinder.

* NewPowersAsThePlotDemands: In 2nd Stage, Reijirou suddenly reveals that he's a master hacker at the exact moment that the he and Moriya need to hack into a security system.

* RememberTheNewGuy: The second series introduces Koki and Miduzi, two former groupmates of a TeenIdol group that Nagisa and Yuusuke were members of in highschool. They were never mentioned in the first series. Downplayed in that their group dissolved many years ago and the split was far from amicable, so it would be understandable if they didn't want to talk about them.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Reijiro converses in English twice through the series. He has an obvious accent but his pronunciation and grammar is quite good and very natural.

A second season titled Real Fake 2nd Stage is scheduled for broadcast on June 15, 2021.

* NoodleIncident: When Moriya asks Reijirou how he became a master hacker, he simply answers "I read too much".

* ChildhoodFriends: Reijiro and Rin as well as Akane and Moriya

* HollywoodHacking: Some extremely egregious cases in 2nd stage, in which characters just rapidly type without any sort of text box visible on the screen and the blind typing somehow making a loading bar fill faster.
* IdolSinger: Akane is an idol and Nagisa is a former idol.

* OldFriend: Akane and Moriya

* RememberTheNewGuy: The second series introduces Koki and Miduki, two former groupmates of a TeenIdol group that Nagisa and Yuusuke were members of in highschool. They were never mentioned in the first series. Downplayed in that their group dissolved many years ago and the split was far from amicable, so it would be understandable if they didn't want to talk about them.

* IllBoy: Yuusuke has an unspecified illness that has lingered since he was a child and caused him to be held back a year in school. As an adult he manages it well enough to be in an idol group, but he's on medication and the symptoms occasionally resurface regardless. From the way he clutches his chest in one scene, it's probably a heart condition.

* ChildhoodFriends: Reijiro and Rin as well as spoiler:Akane and spoiler:Moriya

!''Unmarked spoilers'' are present on this page, due to several characters being WalkingSpoilers.

* AmbiguouslyGay: [[spoiler: Akane and Moriya's relationship greatly resembles two people who had unresolved crushes on eachother in highschool and then reluctantly drifted apart, still carrying a torch for the other even 12 years later.]]

* ChildhoodFriends: Reijiro and Rin as well as [[spoiler:Akane]] and [[spoiler:Moriya]]
* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Akane's brother. Akane as well, but Kakeru stopped him in time.]]

* EverybodyDidIt: Played with. [[spoiler: Everyone in the group is responsible for Akane's disappearance. But they're actually hiding Akane to help him and he's perfectly safe.]]

* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: Pretty much the attitude of everyone in Stellar CROWNS. [[spoiler:At least until TheReveal happens and the audience finds out that this was mostly an act.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Moriya's very aggressive in getting dirt on the group and he invades their privacy by planting hidden cameras in their house, but this is only because [[spoiler:Akane is his old friend and he thinks one of the group may have kidnapped or murdered him. His real personality, seen in flashbacks and after TheReveal, is much kinder.]]

* OldFriend: [[spoiler:Akane]] and [[spoiler:Moriya]]

* RembemberTheNewGuy?: The second series introduces Koki and Miduki, two former groupmates of a TeenIdol group that Nagisa and Yuusuke were members of in highschool. They were never mentioned in the first series. Downplayed in that their group dissolved many years ago and the split was far from amicable, so it would be understandable if they didn't want to talk about them.

* RembemberTheNewGuy: The second series introduces Koki and Miduki, two former groupmates of a TeenIdol group that Nagisa and Yuusuke were members of in highschool. They were never mentioned in the first series. Downplayed in that their group dissolved many years ago and the split was far from amicable, so it would be understandable if they didn't want to talk about them.

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: Reijiro converses in English twice through the series. He has an obvious accent but his pronounciatian and grammar is quite good and very natural.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: Akane's brother. Akane as well, but Kakeru stopped him in time.

* IfYouDoAnythingToHurtHer: [[spoiler: Moriya threatens to kill the boys if he finds out that any of them murdered or kidnapped Akane.]]

The story centers around the disappearance of Akane, a popular songstress/diva known for having the voice of an angel. News outlets have reported it as a suicide, but is that really all there is to it? Akane was scheduled to join Stellar CROWNS, a new musical group composed of some of the nation's biggest stars, including idols, actors and singers. As the news of Akane's disappearance makes waves in society, a suspicious document reaches Akane's agency: "Akane is alive. The criminal is one of the group members." In order to flush out the criminal, the president of Akane's agency hires the film director, Moriya Hidetoshi to film the 6 members of Stellar CROWNS under the guise of making a documentary about them as they begin living in a shared house together. ''What is real? What is fake?''

* ImNotHereToMakeFriends: Pretty much the attitude of everyone in Stellar CROWNS.

* WholesomeCrossdresser: Akane.

* IdolSinger: Akane is an idol.

* Never Suicide: Akane's disappearance is assumed to be a suicide. It's not.

Stylized as ''REAL⇔FAKE.'' A Japanese drama starring Yoshihiko Aramaki, Keisuke Ueda, Ren Ozawa,Ryuji Sato, Ryunosuke Matsumura, Masanari Wada, Toshiyuki Someya, and Creator/ShoutaAoi.

The story centers around the disappearance of Akane, a popular songstress/diva known for having the voice of an angel. News outlets have reported it as a suicide, but is that really all there is to it? Akane was scheduled to join Stellar CROWNS, a new musical group composed of some of the nation's biggest stars, including idols, actors and singers. As the news of Akane's disappearance makes waves in society, a suspicious document reaches Akane's agency: "Akane is alive. The criminal is one of the group members." In order to flush out the criminal, the president of Akane's agency hires the film director, Moriya Hidetoshi to film the 6 members of Stellar CROWNS under the guise of making a documentary about them. ''What is real? What is fake?''

* ChildhoodFriends: [[spoiler:Akane]] and [[spoiler:Moriya]]

Popular songstress/diva Akane has suddenly disappeared, with news outlets reporting it as a suicide. Akane was scheduled to join Stellar CROWNS, a new musical group composed of some of the nation's biggest stars, including idols, actors and singers. As the news of Akane's disappearance makes waves in society, a suspicious document reaches Akane's agency: "Akane is alive. The criminal is one of the group members." In order to flush out the criminal, the president of Akane's agency hires the film director, Moriya Hidetoshi to film the 6 members of Stellar CROWNS under the guise of making a documentary about them.

* FairPlayWhodunnit: The story centers around Moriya trying to figure out who is responsible for Akane's disappearance.