Summary of the 42nd episode of the Asadora"Anpan"

The NHK Asadora drama series "Anpan " starring Mio Imada (General TV, Monday to Saturday at 8:00 a.m. and others) will broadcast its 9th week, "Next to Despair is Hope." In the 42nd episode on May 27th...

" 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 episode 42, the Yanai family is in mourning after Hiroshi (Yutaka Takenouchi) passes away. Chiyoko (Naho Toda) invites Nobu (Naho Toda) and Hatako (Mio Imada Eguchi), who came to pay her respects, to a toast. Kusakichi ( Sadao Abe) gives Anpan (sweet Noriko Eguchi ) to take to Takashi when she returns home.

Meanwhile, Takashi is sitting alone on a seesaw in a vacant lot. Hiroshi's words come to his mind one after another, and he begins to shed tears. Nobu gently offers Takashi an Anpan), and comforts him as he expresses his regret for Hiroshi.