The eighth episode of the Fuji TV Getsuku drama "Second to Last Love 3 " (Mondays 9pm), starring Kyoko Koizumi and Kiichi Nakai Nakai, aired on June 2nd. It depicted Noriko (Naoko Iijima), who is feeling depressed by the loneliness of living alone, and became a hot topic on social media.
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Noriko realizes that the memories of her life with her husband Hiroyuki (Asano Kazuyuki) and son Sho are stored in various "objects." She feels so lonely that she bursts into tears. She is unable to dispose of the things she has picked up, so she contacts Chiaki (Koizumi) for help.
Chiaki immediately rushed over with Wahei (played by Nakai). Noriko said, "That's perfect timing!" and asked Wahei to move the shelf.
However, the shelf was too heavy. When Sho was in junior high school, he was the kind of kid who would hit things if something bothered him. "If I said something, he'd say, 'Shut up! Shut up!' and kick me as hard as he could!" Sho ended up breaking his leg. As she reminisced, Noriko said, "Even the memories are kind of dull. I'm no good."
Chiaki, who had been listening to him, gave him some advice: "But isn't that actually a good memory? You'll never forget it, right? So I don't think you need to force yourself to get rid of it. It's part of what made you who you are as a person, right? There's no need to force yourself."
Since the incident with the broken bone, Sho has stopped hitting things. Hearing this, Chiaki gently said, "That's good. Sho will be a good man who doesn't kick things just because he doesn't like something, even if he gets married. He's grown into a kind man."
On social media, there were many comments such as, "I understand Noriko's feelings all too well," "The words Chiaki says to Noriko are so sweet," "Chiaki rushes off when Noriko says help her (sobbing)," "I tweeted 'I know what you mean...!' when I heard Mizutani Noriko was feeling lonely. The feeling that her room and her heart are not at ease. It was so real that it made my heart ache," and "I wonder if when my child grows up she will feel the same sadness as Noriko."
In the story, there was a scene where Noriko was asked by the interviewer who was in charge of the magazine's gravure shoot, "What do you think about the title 'Noriko Mizutani's Everyone is Like This, Right?' for the serialization page." On social media, it attracted attention with comments such as, "I really want to read 'Noriko Mizutani's Everyone is Like This, Right?'" and "Noriko, Everyone is Like This, Right? Is the serialization starting?"
