The 30th episode of the NHK Asadora drama "Anpan " (General TV, Monday to Saturday at 8:00 AM and others), starring Mio Imada , was broadcast on May Getsuku, and some Asadora fans reacted to a comment made by the cafe manager played by Kageyama Yasushi.
"Anpan" is based on the married couple Takashi Yanase(1919-2013) and Nobuyuki (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 and arrived at "Anpanman," the embodiment of "unreversible justice."
In the 30th episode, Nobu (Imada) suggested that the students at the Women's Normal School make comfort bags. The students are enthusiastic about the project, calling for donations on their days off. When the story is published in the newspaper with Nobu's photo, he attracts attention as a model of patriotism. Meanwhile, Takashi (Takumi Kitamura), who won an honorable mention in a design contest and received a prize, calls the Yanai family from a cafe in Ginza.
When Takashi hears from Chihiro (Motoki Nakazawa) that Nobu has been featured in the newspaper...
The episode showed a scene where Taka and Kentaro (Fumiya Takahashi) were eating curry at the cafe they frequent, but when the classmate tried to get a second helping, the manager declared that it was "sold out" and that it would be the last.
Kageyama, who plays the role of the store manager, has previously appeared in Asadora such as "Umechan Sensei" in the first half of 2012, "Hiyokko" in the first half of 2017, "Natsuzora" in the first half of 2019, and "Boogie Woogie" in the second half of 2023. In "Hiyokko," he played Mori Kazuo, the chef at the "Otome Dormitory" where the heroines lived and whose specialty is curry rice, and in "Natsuzora," he is known for playing Sugimoto Heisuke, the foreman (head chef) of Shinjuku's "Kawamuraya," famous for its curry rice.
Fans who noticed this "curry connection" on social media made comments such as, "The manager was the head chef in Hiyokko too," "Curry lol The master made curry in Hiyokko and Natsuzora..." and "Hmm, I wonder why this person has such a connection to curry."
