A new character relationship chart for the NHK Asadora drama "Anpan " (General TV, Monday to Saturday, 8:00 AM and other times), starring Mio Imada , has been released on the drama's official website and elsewhere. The chart, which begins on August 11th with the 20th week "Look Up at the Stars at Night," shows that Meiko ( Nanoka Hara ), who married Kentaro ( Fumiya Takahashi ) in the previous 19th week "Flower of Courage," has the surname "Karashima," and the annotation between the two has changed to "Married Couple." The "Karashima family" now consists of four members, including the grown-up eldest daughter Ai (Tsukui Arisa) and second daughter Karashima Hana (Maeda Hana).
Instead, the Asada family, which initially had a maximum of nine members including Go Hara(Kanata Hosoda) and Sokichi Yamura(Sadao Abe), is now down to just Hatako ( Noriko Eguchi) and Ranko ( Yuumi Kawai). Yagi's (Satoshi Tsumabuki) description has also changed from "black market liquor store owner" to "general store owner." Furthermore, the appearance of director Mutsuhara Eisuke (Todo Hinata) and three manga artists, Oshima Ko (Nanase Ko), Miura Mitsuo (Ikeda Tsutomu), and Kurita Hiroshi (Ehara Pajama), as members of the "original manga faction" has been announced.
Furthermore, the names of Degawa (Odai Ryohei), the head of the advertising department at Samsung Department Store, and Sera (Kihara Katsutoshi), who devotedly supported Tetsuko (Toda Keiko) as an administrative assistant but became independent last week, are not included, and there is an air of them being relieved of their duties, but will they really be included?
"Anpan" is based on the married couple Takashi Yanase(1919-2013), the manga artist and picture book author who created "Anpanman," and his wife, Nobu (1918-1993). It is a "story of love and courage" that will fill you with the joy of living, depicting how these two, who were once nobodys, overcame all sorts of rough seas to become "Anpanman," the embodiment of "unreversible justice."
