A new character relationship chart for the NHK morning drama " Anpan " starring Mio Imada(General Asadora , Monday to Saturday 8:00am, etc.) has been released on the drama's official website. The chart will begin on June 30th with the 14th week, "Where is Happiness?", and with the end of the "war part", the chart has changed significantly, with seven new characters being added.
The new characters are Akira Kenjiro Tsuda Tsuda, Yuki Kura played by Yui Narumi, Ryo Kirishima played by Manzo Nomura, Izuru Torii played by Koji Furukawa, Tatsuya Midorikawa played by Riku Kashima, and Masamitsu Aoki played by Takuya Wakabayashi. All of them are members of the Kochi Shimpo newspaper where the heroine Nobu (played by Imada) joined, and their individual shots were also released.
On the other hand, the names of the deceased Jiro Wakamatsu(Ayumu Nakajima), Chihiro Yanai(Motoki Nakazawa), and Iwao Tagawa (Noritake Hamao) are no longer in the play. In addition, many of the members of the Kokura Regiment, including Jiro's mother Setsuko Wakamatsu(Misuzu Kanno ) and Kentaro Karashima (Satoshi Satoshi Tsumabuki ), have disappeared, but among them, "Ken-chan" (Kentaro Karashima) ( Fumiya Takahashi) and "Konta" (Kanto Sakurai) remain in the frame of "Taka's (Takumi Kitamura) friend".
"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."
