"Omusubi" (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00am and others), the NHK morning drama starring Hashimoto Kanna, will air in the second half of 2024. On November 23rd, they will look back on the 8th week, "Goodbye Itoshima, Now Kobe" (November 18th to 22nd). The NHK announcer Takase Kozo will be in charge of narration.
"Omusubi" is a "Heisei youth graffiti" in which the heroine, born in 1989, connects people's hearts and futures as a nutritionist, with a "gal spirit" that values her individuality at all times. It is an original work by screenwriter Nemoto Nonji, known for NHK's drama "Shojiki Real Estate".
The theme song is "Illumination" by "B'z". The story will be narrated by illustrator and actor Lily Franky.
In the eighth week, Yui (Hashimoto), who has graduated from high school and will be entering a vocational school for nutrition, leaves Itoshima with her parents to go to Kobe, where she lived as a child.
The place where her house was partially destroyed in the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake has been turned into an apartment building, and Yui is reminded of the disaster, but she is warmly welcomed by her neighbors in the shopping district who she was close to at the time, and her mood calms down. She then enters vocational school in high spirits, dressed like a gyaru girl. However, she faces many difficult days ahead, with other students looking at her strangely and her teacher scolding her for her nails.
The class content is also very diverse, and Yui struggles to keep up. Meanwhile, her classmate Sachi (Yamamoto Maika) asks to be changed to another group because she will fail the class if she stays with Yui, Kasumi (Taira Yuna), and Morikawa (Kote Shinya)... and so the story unfolds.
