The eighth episode of the drama series " Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective " (TV Asahi, Tuesdays at 9pm), starring actress Kanna Hashimoto , aired on June 17th, and the average viewership rating (according to Video Research, Kanto region, below) was 4.3% for households and 2.4% for individuals. This was the first broadcast of the drama in two weeks.
The drama is based on the novel of the same Mikito Chinen, which has sold over 3.6 million copies in total and was also made into a TV anime. This medical mystery is about the buddy team of Takao Ameku (played by Hashimoto), a diagnostician with a transcendent brain, overwhelming medical knowledge and insight, and Yu Takanashi (played by Shohei Miura), an internist, who brilliantly solves mysterious illnesses, murder cases, and even paranormal phenomena.
This is Hashimoto's first work since the NHK Asadora drama "Omusubi," and she will be taking on the role of a doctor.
The drama enters its final chapter from episode 8. The past of the hospital director, Taisho Amakusa (Toshiro Yanagiba), and the metropolitan assembly member, Natsuko Kuraishi (Reiko Takashima), who had a close relationship with him, and the conspiracy between the two are revealed, sparking a battle over the survival of the "General Diagnostic Department." Furthermore, the buddy relationship between Takao and Takanashi is in danger of breaking up... and so on.
