The 68th episode of the NHK Asadora"Omusubi " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM and others), starring Kanna Hashimoto, a regular in Asadora, which became a hot topic among viewers.
In the 68th episode, Shoya (Hayato Sano) is called by his boss and asked to gather 100 employees in a week to hold a tasting session for a new rice cooker. Shoya is hesitant, but is encouraged by his colleagues and decides to take on the job.
Shoya personally visited each department and bowed his head to ask for the cooperation of monitors. Even when they turned him down, he showed the tenacity he had honed in baseball and managed to gather 100 people by the time of the tasting event.
Then, on the day of the tasting, a problem suddenly occurred and the 10 monitors could not attend. The development department manager was furious, saying, "This tasting is an important job. Depending on the results of this monitoring, the direction of the new product will change significantly." A male employee who had been watching the situation tried to calm him down by saying, "Come on, come on, manager, we're taking surveys at other sales offices as well," but Shoya said, "Wait a minute! I'll somehow get 10 more people there by 5:30 pm!" and ran out of the cafeteria.
In this scene, Yuasa played the male employee who calmed down the section chief. He is a regular actor in Asadora, having Asa ga Kita," "Beppin-san (spin-off drama)," "Warotenka," "Manpuku," "Scarlet," "Ochoyan," "Come Come Everybody," "Maiagare!," "Boogie Woogie," and "The Tiger and Her Wings." "Omusubi" marks his 14th Asadora, and his third consecutive appearance after "Boogie Woogie" and "The Tiger and Her Wings."
On social media, people were saying things like, "It's everyone's favorite Yuasa Takashi!", "He's a regular in Asadora!", "I see Yuasa Takashi every year", "I'm happy to see him appear again", "He's been reincarnated many times in the world of Asadora", and "I wondered where he would appear, and it was here."