The fifth episode of the drama series "Broadcasting Station Occupy" (NTV, Saturdays at 9 PM), starring Sakurai Sho, aired on August Getsuku. In the episode, the true identities of the monster cat and kappa, members of the armed group Ayakashi (spirited spirits), were revealed. The connection between the monster cat and the drama series "Undercover Brothers and Sisters: Special Fraud Special Investigator," which will be broadcast in 2024, was revealed, sparking a stir on social media.
◇The following contains spoilers.
In episode 5, Musashi (Sakurai), trying to expose the dark side of TV station director Hinode (Kameda Yoshiaki), interrogates Tokyo Governor Oshiba (Mayama Akishi), who has clues, but during the interrogation, Oshiba dies of a mysterious electrocution. Security chief Yashiro (Takahashi Katsunori) seals off the building and searches for the culprit, but no suspicious person is found. Honjo (Kumi Takiuchi), suspecting an internal crime, orders Shima (Gunpii) to carry out a top-secret mission to expose the enemy who has infiltrated the building.
Meanwhile, if Hideki's dark secrets are not exposed within two hours, he will be impaled and killed. Musashi rushes to investigate the incident from five years ago. He discovers that Hideki's crime was to pin the crimes of peeping and secret photography he himself committed on newspaper reporter Takatsu Kunimitsu, driving him to suicide... and so the story unfolds.
Later in the story, the demon kappa and the monster cat take off their masks, revealing that the kappa is Takatsu's son, Haruto (played by Haru Kashiwagi), and the monster cat is Takatsu's daughter, Minami (played by Iriyama Anna). Furthermore, it turns out that Minami has a history of arrests and is a former member of the fraud group "Genju." Honjo and the rest of the command headquarters then begin to investigate the relationship between the demons and the monsters.
Iriyama played Takatsu Minami, the team leader of the Mythical Beasts, in the drama series "Infiltration Brothers and Sisters: Special Fraud Investigator" which aired last year, and social media was flooded with excited comments about the connection between the two dramas. "Mythical Beasts?! So they're connected to that one?", "Infiltration Brothers and Sisters! They're connected!", "Wow! Just like their roles!", "I can't believe they're connected here," and "So they're in the same world line" were some of the comments.
