Mikami Sensei:[Student Introduction] Attendance number 1 "Ayase Tomoka" Otsuka Moeka, a quiet and mature honor student

The Sunday Theatre drama " Mikami Sensei " (TBS, Sunday 9pm) starring actor Tori Matsuzaka Tori will begin airing on January 19th. The drama will introduce the 29 unique students of class 2, year 3, of Rintoku Gakuin, where Mikami (Matsuzaka) is the homeroom teacher, in order of their attendance numbers. Here we will introduce Ayase Tomoka (Otsuka Moeka), who has the number 1 attendance number.

Ayase has a quiet and mature personality, but she opens up to her close friends and is a caring person. She was a former member of the dance club and loves K-POP. She is an honor student in her class and looks up to Nao Haruyama (played by Naoko Yabuki) like a younger sister.

Otsuka, who plays the role, commented, "I feel very happy that I, who don't have much acting experience, was able to be involved in such a big production as Sunday Theater, and I was also surprised because I never thought I would be chosen. The set was warmer than I expected, and it felt like a real school, with everyone having fun together during their free time, so the atmosphere made it easy to get into acting. This work has a different approach to traditional school dramas, and I think that if you watch it on Sunday, it will make you want to think about society from Monday. At first, Ayase Tomoka, the character I play, dislikes Mikami Sensei, but as the episodes go on, she begins to come to terms with him and various emotional changes occur within Ayase, so I hope you will pay attention to that."

"Mikami Sensei" is about Takashi Mikami (Matsuzaka), a bureaucrat in the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology who wants to change the Japanese education system. He is ordered to transfer to a private high school called Rintoku Gakuin. In reality, he was demoted, but Mikami himself takes to the podium and leads 18-year-old high school students living in the Reiwa era, standing up to authority... This is a "great reversal education revival story."

This completely original work will be written by Shimori Roba, who will be teaming up with Matsuzaka for the first time since the film "The Journalist," and will be writing the script for a prime-time drama series for the first time. Kazutaka Iida, who has been in charge of popular Sunday Theater dramas such as "Anti-Hero" (2024) and "VIVANT" (2023), will serve as producer.