NHK’s morning drama “Anpan,” based on Nobu Komatsu, wife of Yanase Takashi, the cartoonist who created the nationally popular animation “Anpanman,” reached its final episode on September 26. The rating for the day was 18.1%, the program’s highest (according to Video Research, Kanto region, households: same as below). The average rating for all 130 episodes was 16.1%, surpassing by far the 13.1% for the previous episode “Omusubi,” which set the worst record. We asked media culture critic Hiroyoshi Usui how the drama fared and his expectations for the next drama, “Bakebake. See Photos] She is a different person from the morning drama! Mio Imada boldly exposes her “beautiful back” ***
Although the heroine Nobu (Mio Imada) suffered a serious illness just before the final episode, “Anpan” ended with her and her husband Takashi (Takumi Kitamura) walking hand in hand in the back. The show came to a grand conclusion without letting the viewer’s eyes leave the stage until the very end. The script was written by Miho Nakazono, known for the “Doctor-X: Surgeon Daimon Michiko” series (TV Asahi), the 2014 morning drama “Hanako to Anne” and the 18-year historical drama “Saigodon. Usui said. Usui said, “The drama shows us the royal road of morning dramas, from prewar through wartime to postwar. This year is the 100th anniversary of the Showa period and the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, and the drama was well worth watching. I think this was partly due to the fact that the heroine (Kanna Hashimoto) in the previous “Omusubi” was a Heisei Gal, a heroine who was more empty than fictitious. In fact, the rating for “Omusubi” never exceeded 16.8% for the first episode, while “Anpan” recorded its highest rating in the final episode, which was a stark contrast. However, when I finished watching it, I wondered if “Anpan” was really a story about the heroine Nobu. I really wanted to depict Takashi Yanase, but I think Mr. Nakazono focused on his wife for the sake of the morning drama. I heard that she had a personal relationship with Mr. Yanase.” (Usui) Before “Anpan” started, Nakazono said in an interview.