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Sugar Dog Life

Japanese manga series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ128558491
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Sugar Dog Life (Japanese: シュガードッグライフ, Hepburn: Shugā Doggu Raifu) is a Japanese manga series by Yoriko. It was serialized in the monthly boys' love manga magazine Gateau from January 30, 2019, to December 28, 2019. A live-action television drama adaptation was broadcast on TV Asahi from August 3, 2024, to September 29, 2024.

Plot

While returning home from a drinking party late at night, university student Isumi Sakuraba is mistaken for a minor due to his short, youthful appearance by police officer Kyōsuke Amasawa and is almost taken into custody. When Amasawa shows up at Isumi's part-time job at the convenience store, Isumi answers his recommendations on food. Since then, Amasawa often shows up asking for more recommendations. Despite Isumi getting annoyed at Amasawa talking to him, he becomes concerned about his diet. One day, out of the blue, Isumi suggests going to Amasawa's home to cook for him. As the two grow closer to each other, Isumi finds himself falling in love with Amasawa, but Amasawa remains oblivious to his feelings. Eventually, Amasawa realizes he reciprocates Isumi's feelings, and the two become a couple.

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“Sugar Dog Life” enters the record as japanese manga series. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sugar, Life and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from Sugar Dog Life” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.