It was revealed on April 28 that the weekly average viewership rating ( Asadora) for the fourth week of the NHK morning drama series "Anpan " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00am, etc.), starring Mio Imada , which will air in the first half of the 2025 season, "What to do with life?", was 15.4% (based on a survey by Video Research, Kanto region). This is a slight increase from the 15.3% rating for the third week of the previous week, "What for? Born" (April 14-18).
" Anpan" is based on the married couple Takashi Yanase(1919-2013) and Nobu (1918-1993), the manga artist and picture book writer who created "Anpanman." It is a "story of love and courage" that will make you feel the joy of living, depicting how these two, who were once nobody, overcame all sorts of rough seas to become "Anpanman," the embodiment of "unreversible justice."
In the fourth week, Nobu (Imada) realizes what she wants to do and starts studying to get into a women's normal school.
Meanwhile, Takashi (Takumi Kitamura), who is worried about his future, gets irritated with himself and ends up fighting with Chihiro (Motoki Nakazawa). That night, after talking with Chihiro and Hiroshi (Yutaka Takenouchi), Takashi decides to aim for Kochi Daiichi High School.
As the new year dawns, Nobu and Takashi take their exams. In the end, Nobu passes and Takashi fails.
Tomiko is about to leave Gomenyocho again. Takashi chases after her, but he doesn't come home that night. Nobu and Chihiro and the others desperately search for Takashi... and so the story unfolds.
