The 96th episode is attracting attention: Taka's confident work is rejected! Viewers' interest is growing

What was the most captivating scene in the 96th episode (broadcast on August 11th) of the NHK Asadora drama "Anpan " (General TV, Monday to Saturday, 8:00 AM and other times), starring Mio Imada ? When we looked at minute-by-minute trends in "attention level," which indicates the degree to which viewers were glued to the screen, we found that the highest level of attention (surveyed by REVISIO, Kanto region, preliminary figures) was 70.9% at 8:09 AM, when Takashi (played by Takumi Kitamura) received a call from his editor.

"Anpan" is based on the married Takashi Yanase(1919-2013), the manga artist and picture book writer 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 troubles to become "Anpanman," the embodiment of "unreversible justice."

◇The highest point was at 8:09 AM. The light turned to darkness, creating a big peak over the three minutes before and after.

Takashi left Samsung Department Store to become independent and became a full-time manga artist. In the 96th episode, he was a member of a group called the Original Manga Group, and was doing the work assigned to him there, but it was depicted that things were not going smoothly.

The highest level of interest was at 8:09 AM, with 70.9% of viewers watching, when the editor called to tell him that the manga "Mei-Inu Bon" that was scheduled to be published had been scrapped. Interest rose for three consecutive minutes, including the 8-minute segment (69.0%) just before Taka told Nobu (Imada) that "Maybe (Mei-Inu Bon) will finally be released," and the two of them were filled with excitement, and the 10-minute segment (70.5%) just after Taka was comforted by his fellow original manga enthusiasts. While this development was expected, viewers' attention was focused on this sudden dark turn from a happy situation.

The data used was a proprietary index called "attention level" published by REVISIO, a company that surveys TV program and commercial viewing habits in 2,000 households in the Kanto region and 600 households in the Kansai region. A dedicated device equipped with a human body recognition sensor constantly measures whether people are looking at the TV screen, and calculates the percentage of people in front of the TV who are paying close attention to the program.