We Are Bad Barbers (2026)

8.0 (1 votes)

1 Season

January 10, 2026

Japanese

Drama Action & Adventure

Synopsis

A quiet retro barbershop hides a dangerous side hustle—its unassuming owner and a sharp-tongued new assistant team up to solve clients’ problems with brute force, for a hefty fee.

Network

TV Tokyo

Episodes

Episode 1

Jan 10, 2026

24 min

After his dream of becoming a charismatic hairdresser is shattered, Higurashi Ayumu (Nakajima Ayumu) embarks on a journey of self-discovery, where he happens to come across Tsukishiro Barber Shop. He begs the owner, Tsukishiro Tsukasa (Kusakawa Takuya), to hire him, but it turns out that Tsukishiro has a secret life as a backroom hairdresser.

Episode 2

Jan 17, 2026

24 min

Higurashi (Nakajima Ayumu) asks Tsukishiro (Kusakawa Takuya) to help his client, Miyo (Shida Kohaku), who is being attacked by the unscrupulous hairdresser Katsuragi (Watanabe Hide), but ends up working as a live-in employee with no way to pay the fee. One day, a client shows up.

Episode 3

Jan 24, 2026

24 min

A robber appears at Tsukishiro Barber Shop, and it turns out that the robber is the uncle of Fuma (Harada Konosuke), a high school student who happens to be passing by. Fearing they will be discovered, the two men flee. A few days later, a former basketball player visits the barber shop, and the two events are connected in an unexpected way.

Episode 4

Jan 31, 2026

24 min

After fighting with Tsukishiro (Kusakawa Takuya), Higurashi (Nakajima Ayumu) runs out of the barber shop and witnesses suspicious masked men trying to attack Fuma (Harada Konosuke). Higurashi confronts the men and decides to take Fuma back to Tsukishiro Barber Shop.