"Drama 1 Week" introduces the main drama news of the week. This time (March 8th to 14th), we talked about the Fuji TV "Monday 9pm" drama "Zoku Zoku Second to Last Love " starring Kyoko Koizumi and Kiichi Nakai Nakai, which will start in April, and the TV Tokyo series " Recommendations for Solo Live Girls" starring Noriko Eguchi, which will air season 5 in April. We will cover these topics in two parts.
It has been revealed that season 5 of the TV drama series "Recommendations for Solo Live Girls" starring Noriko Eguchi (TV Tokyo) will be broadcast in April. Titled "Recommendations for Solo Live Girls 5," it will be broadcast every Wednesday at 1:00 a.m. from April 2nd. The drama is based on freelance writer Mayumi Asai's essay "Recommendations for Solo Live Girls" (Daiwa Shobo). It depicts the protagonist, Saotome Megumi (Eguchi), who is devoted to "solo activities" to enjoy time alone. It will be broadcast every April from 2021, and in season 3, it collaborated with regional cities such as Chichibu City, Saitama Prefecture, and in season 4, a Taiwan edition was produced as the first overseas solo activity. Kobayashi Kinako will continue to play Kuroda Ayako, who works at the editorial department of "Digest Publishing," Shibuya Kento will play Kento Shibuya, and Sasaki Haruka will play Aoki Haruka. Voice actor Akio Otsuka will also continue to serve as narrator.
It has been revealed that TV Asahi will be streaming classic dramas, variety shows, and anime for free on "TVer". A total of 70 titles will be streamed under the title "TV Asahi Dorabara Festival! Spring 2025". Dramas include "Yamazaki Toyoko's White Tower", "Rinjo", and the "Tokumei Kacho Tadano Hitoshi" series (Reiwa Compliance Breakthrough Edition), variety shows include "Ame Talk!" (3 previous titles) and "London Hearts" (10 previous titles), and anime includes "Crayon Shin-chan" (3 previous titles) and Doraemon(10 previous titles). "Roppongi Class", "Ossan's Love Returns", "Hayabusa Fire Brigade", and "The Man Who Won't Divorce - The Deceitful Love of a Cheated Husband and a Wicked Wife" will be available for free archive streaming for the first time.
It has been announced that Fuji TV's "Monday 9" drama "Zoku Zoku Second to Last Love " starring Kyoko Koizumi and Kiichi Nakai Nakai will start airing in April. Regular cast members Kenji Sakaguchi, Yuki Uchida, and Naoko Iijima will also appear. Set in the ancient city of Kamakura, the romantic and home comedy depicts the love story between a TV station producer played by Koizumi and a civil servant working at Kamakura City Hall played by Nakai. The first season was aired in 2012, and the second season, "Zoku Second to Last Love," aired in 2014. This is the third season, which depicts the story 11 years later. The theme song will be sung by Ayumi Hamasaki, following the first and second seasons. This will be Hamasaki's first Monday 9 theme song in 25 years, since "SEASONS," the theme song for the drama "Weather Forecast Lover" (2000). The script will also be written by Yoshikazu Okada, following the first and second seasons.
It has been announced that the drama "Joyu Meshi" starring Miona Hori will be streamed and broadcast from 7pm on March 30th on the video streaming service "FOD" and Fuji TV's pay channel "Fuji TV TWO". The drama is based on the manga of the same name currently being serialized in "Weekly Young Jump" (Shueisha). The story depicts national actress Izumi Nadeshiko (Hori), known as "the last Yamato Nadeshiko", as she secretly spends a blissful "meal" enjoying local gourmet food. Highlights include the numerous gourmet dishes that appear in each episode and Nadeshiko's various costume changes. Also appearing are SUMIRE, Ogata Sosuke, and Nagase Mari from the girl group "Rain Tree".
Motoki Omori , vocalist of the three-person rock band " Mrs. Green Apple ," will appear in the NHK Asadora drama "Anpan, " starring Mio Imada, which will begin on March 31. It has been revealed that he will play Takuya Ise, modeled after musician Izumi Tasuku. This will be Omori's first time appearing in a drama. Takuya Ise has composed many commercials, movies, television, and radio plays. He is also passionate about creating musicals, and has composed over 15,000 songs in his lifetime. In the musical "Look Up at the Stars in the Night," for which he was in charge of music, Takashi Yanai(Takumi Kitamura) will be in charge of the set design, and Ise will be composing the song "Te no Hira wo Taiyou ni," for which Taku wrote the lyrics.
On March 14th, it was revealed that Marika Matsumoto will appear in the drama series "Jinji no Hitomi" (Fuji TV, Tuesdays at 9pm), which will start on April 8th and star Genta Matsuda of the Jinji no Hitomi group "Travis Japan". Although Matsumoto has appeared as a regular in the "Saikyou Obahan Nakajima Haruko" series produced by Tokai TV and "Tokumei! Tokubetsu Keisatsu Kaikaku Ka" (2023) produced by Kansai TV, this will be her first time as a regular in a Fuji TV drama series. Also announced to appear in the series were Sakurai Hinako, Shinya Niiro, Heitetsu, Honami Suzuki, and Fumiyo Kohinata.
It has been announced that WOWOW's original drama "Hey, Dazai," starring Kei Tanaka and written and directed by Koki Mitani, will be broadcast and streamed on WOWOW Prime and WOWOW On Demand in June. It is the third installment in the "One-scene, One-shot Drama" series written and directed by Mitani. Kensaku, played by Tanaka, is an ordinary office worker who admires Dazai Osamu. On the way home from a wedding reception he attended with his wife Miyoko, he accidentally stumbles onto the beach where Dazai attempted suicide. Excited to be in a place associated with Dazai, Kensaku makes his way through a dark cave and finds a man who looks just like Dazai Osamu. Has Kensaku traveled back in time to the era Dazai lived in? The cast for Dazai and others will be announced at a later date.
