The second episode of the drama series "The Hot Spot" (Nippon TV, Sunday 10:30 pm), starring actress Ichikawa Mikako, was broadcast on January 19th, and it was revealed that the average viewership rating (according to Video Research, Kanto region, same below) was 5.9% for households and 3.3% for individuals. The household viewership rating has gradually increased from 5.6% for the first episode last week.
This work is a reunion of Bakarhythm, who wrote the script for the popular drama "Brush Up Life" (same station), and the production staff of the same drama. Set in a town in Yamanashi Prefecture at the foot of Mount Fuji, the story follows the protagonist Endo Kiyomi (Ichikawa), a single mother who works at a business hotel, who meets an alien by chance and asks for help solving small problems in her work and private life without upsetting him.
In the second episode, Kiyomi's childhood friend, elementary school teacher Hazuki (Suzuki Anne), is caught up in trouble that threatens her future as a teacher. Kiyomi and her friends try to rely on the power of an alien named Takahashi (Kadota Akihiro)...
