The eighth episode of the TV drama "The Hot Spot" (Nippon TV, Sunday 10:30 p.m.), starring actress Ichikawa Mikako, was broadcast on March 2nd, and the average viewership rating (according to Video Research, Kanto region, same below) was 5.9% 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 episode 8, Kiyomi and her friends worry about the "alien" Takahashi (Akihiro Kakuta), saying, "If that hotel disappears, isn't Takahashi the one who will be most affected?" If he can no longer enter the hotel's hot springs, Takahashi's immune system will gradually weaken, and eventually...
