Actor Elaiza Ikeda and rock band RADWIMPS member Yojiro Noda star in the NHK drama series "The Great Passage ~ Watashi, Jisho Tsukurimasu ~" (General TV, Tuesdays at 10pm). According to the synopsis of the fourth episode, which aired on July 8th, it was decided that the kappa would need to be redrawn because it was "strange that the kappa is holding a sake bottle." Scene cuts were also released.
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The drama is based on Shion Miura's bestselling novel, and depicts the passion of people working on dictionaries from the perspective of Midori Kishibe (played by Ikeda), a young editorial staff member who has been transferred to the dictionary editorial department. Noda plays the protagonist of the novel, Mitsuya Majime, the head of the dictionary editorial department who is an extremely earnest person. The drama has been broadcast on terrestrial TV since June 17th in the "Drama 10" slot.
In the fourth episode, Midori (Ikeda), who is in charge of paper making, aims to complete the "ultimate paper" together with Miyamoto (Yuma Yamoto). Meanwhile, the compilation work of "Odo Kai" begins to reexamine the illustrations. It is decided that it is strange for the kappa to be holding a tokkuri, and it is necessary to redraw it, but it turns out that the illustrator in charge of the illustrations has already passed away.
Midori and Majime (Noda) meet Natsukawa Sota (Junki Tozuka), the son who works as an illustrator just like his father, and try to get him to take over...
