The 21st episode of the NHK Taiga drama " UNBOUND (Berabou) " (General TV, Sundays at 8pm and others), starring actor Ryusei Yokohama , titled "Ezo no Sakura Ueno no Heoto" was broadcast on June 1st, and Jirobei, played by Nakamura Aoi, was named "Today's MVP."
" UNBOUND (Berabou)" is the 64th taiga drama, depicting the life of Tsutaya Juzaburo(or "Tsutajyu" for short), who is said to have built the foundations of Japan's media industry and pop culture. The script was written by Yoshiko Morishita, known for "Drama 10 'Ooku'" which was broadcast on NHK two years ago and became a big hit.
In the 21st episode, Tsutaju (Yokohama) finds out that the nishikie prints he created with Utamaro (Sometani Shota) aren't selling, but when he finds out that the blue book written by Masanori (Shunsuke Kazama) is selling well, he feels the disparity in power between him and the established bookstore.
Meanwhile, Nanpo (Kenta Kiritani) appears with his fellow kyoka poets at Tsuchiyama's (Shuntaro Yanagi) cherry blossom viewing party. Tsutaju sees a man who looks like Ichi (Hio Miyazawa) in disguise. Meanwhile, Okitsugu(Ken Watanabe) tells Ieharu (Hidekazu Mashima) that he is considering confiscation of Ezo for the shogunate.
Eventually, Tsutae gathers comic writers, artists, and kyoka poets to promote Utamaro, and holds a banquet that later becomes known as the "Utamaro Daimyojin Gathering." At the banquet, Harumachi (played by Okayama Amane) loses control of her jealousy of Seien and goes on a rampage, but just as Harumachi's "anger" is about to reach its climax, Jirobei suddenly lets out a fart. This changes the tense atmosphere, and Nanpo and the others start partying like crazy... and so the story unfolds.
In the end, Harumachi gave up writing, but on social media there were comments such as "Big Brother Jirobei is a genius at changing the atmosphere", "Big Brother Jirobei can read the atmosphere (lol)", "Just as you'd expect from Big Brother Jirobei, he's always the soothing one. Was that fart because he didn't read the atmosphere? Or was it because he did?" There were also comments such as "Farting Big Brother Jirobei is the MVP tonight", and "In the midst of a tense atmosphere, Big Brother Jirobei literally changed the mood of the room with a single fart, his naturalness is too MVP lol".
