The first episode of the TV drama series "The Hot Spot" (Nippon TV, Sunday 10:30 p.m.), starring actress Ichikawa Mikako, was broadcast on January 12th, and the average viewership rating (according to Video Research, Kanto region, same below) was 5.6% for households and 3.3% for individuals.
This work is a reunion of Bakarhythm, who wrote the script for the popular drama "Brush Up Life" (same station), and the production staff of the same drama. Set in a town in Yamanashi Prefecture at the foot of Mount Fuji, the story follows the protagonist Endo Kiyomi (Ichikawa), a single mother who works at a business hotel, who meets an alien by chance and asks for help solving small problems in her work and private life without upsetting him.
In the first episode, Kiyomi, who works at a local business hotel and is raising her daughter alone, is rushing home on her bicycle after work one day. She almost gets into a traffic accident, but is saved in the nick of time by an "extraterrestrial lifeform." Unable to contain her "secret," which she absolutely cannot tell anyone about, she tells her childhood friends Hazuki (Suzuki Anne) and Minami (Hiraiwa Kami), and Kiyomi's ordinary life begins to change... and so the story unfolds.
