The eighth episode of the drama series "Wingman" (TV Tokyo and others, Tuesday midnight 12:30), starring actor Fujioka Makino, was broadcast on December 10th. The episode depicted a battle between Hirono Kenta, a high school student obsessed with special effects heroes, played by Fujioka, and Naas, who appears as a transfer student named Saito (Haruki Tachibana), and Naas's performance as a complete "villain" caused a stir on social media.
◇The following contains spoilers.
In episode 8, Aoi (Konatsu Kato) has mixed feelings when she sees Kenta injured in a battle with a strong enemy. She decides to return to her hometown with her fiancee Naas and leaves without saying goodbye to Kenta.
Kenta desperately searches for Aoi and pours out his feelings to her. Naas, realizing Aoi's wavering feelings, reveals his true nature... and so the story unfolds.
In the story, Naas attacks the hesitant Aoi from behind, and Kenta, who tries to save her, is stabbed in the stomach. Kenta gets angry at Naas for showing his true colors by mocking Aoi, but Naas doesn't care and says, "Now, wait a minute, I have no intention of fighting you. Just go ahead and kill each other. Everyone in this town is a hostage, after all."
Naas then showed off a series of ideas for using the Dream Note to hurt the people of the city. He then said with a grin, "Don't you like it? Then, if one of you dies, I won't write it down for you," to which Kenta became enraged, saying, "You... how rotten are you?"
On social media, there was a lot of excitement with comments praising Tachibana's performance as Naas, who is a complete villain, such as "He's such a scumbag that it's refreshing," "He's the perfect example of a despicable guy, it's refreshing," "The way he pisses people off is so good," and "Naas is even more of a scumbag than he is in the original work."
