A new character relationship chart for the NHK Asadora drama "Anpan " starring Mio Imada (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 a.m. and others) has been released on the drama's official website. Eight new characters have been added to the relationship chart from the 11th week "I Hate the Military, But" which begins on Getsuku.
The new characters are Manzo Kamino played by Eita Okuno, Riki Baba played by Shunya Itabashi, Tetsu Koda played by Ryosuke Hagiwara, Kota Konno played by Kento Sakurai, Arata Meguro played by Yukito Hidaka, Yasuo Kabata played by Hiroki Usui, Masaki Kasuya played by Shunsuke Tanaka, and Senkichi Shima played by Eiji Yokota. All of them are members of the Kokura Regiment to which Takashi Yanai(Takumi Kitamura) belongs, and individual shots were also released.
Meanwhile, the names of the deceased characters Yutaro Asada(Ryo Kase), Go Hara(Kanata Hosoda), Kiyoshi Yanai(Kazunari Ninomiya), and Hiroshi Yanai(Yutaka Takenouchi) no longer appear in the play, and Sokichi Yamura(Sadao Abe), Kentaro Karashima(Fumiya Takahashi), and Haruto Zama(Koichi Yamadera) have also disappeared.
"Anpan" is based on the married couple Takashi Yanase(1919-2013) and Nobu (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 to become "Anpanman," the embodiment of "unreversible justice."
