The fifth episode of the drama series "Broadcasting Station Occupy" (NTV, Saturdays at 9 PM), starring Sakurai Sho, aired on August Getsuku. In the episode, a scene was depicted in which Hannya, the leader of the armed group Ayakashi, removes his mask, and his true identity caused a wave of surprise on social media.
◇The following contains spoilers.
In episode 5, Musashi (Sakurai), trying to expose the dark side of TV station director Hinode (Kameda Yoshiaki), interrogates Tokyo Governor Oshiba (Mayama Akishi), who has clues, but during the interrogation, Oshiba dies of a mysterious electrocution. Security chief Yashiro (Takahashi Katsunori) seals off the building and searches for the culprit, but no suspicious person is found. Honjo (Kumi Takiuchi), suspecting an internal crime, orders Shima (Gunpii) to carry out a top-secret mission to expose the enemy who has infiltrated the building.
Meanwhile, if Hinode's dark secret is not exposed within two hours, he will be impaled and killed. Musashi rushes to investigate the incident from five years ago. Hidenode's crime was to pin the crimes of peeping and voyeurism he committed on newspaper reporter Takatsu Kunimitsu, driving him to suicide. Then, the demon kappa and monster cat remove their masks, revealing that the kappa is Takatsu's son, Haruto (Haru Kashiwagi), and the monster cat is Takatsu's daughter, Minami (Iriyama Anna). Minami is a former member of the fraud group "Genjuu," and Honjo and the command headquarters begin to investigate the connection between the demons and the monster beasts.
Meanwhile, Hannya demands that Musashi identify his own darkness in exchange for the lives of the remaining hostages. When Musashi shouts, "Who are you?", Hannya responds, "You still don't know... Saburo?" and takes off his mask, saying, "Let me show you my true identity." It turns out to be Ibuki Yuji (Kato Seishiro), the younger brother of Musashi's wife, Yuko (Manami Higa), a detective who was thought to have been kidnapped by an armed group. Upon learning Hannya's true identity, Musashi exclaims in surprise, "Ibuki..." and Honjo mutters, "You've got to be kidding..."
On social media, people were shocked by Hannya's true identity. Comments such as "Oh my, it was Ibuki...", "I was completely fooled", "You've got to be kidding me... what does that mean!?", "I was completely fooled...", "What? What timeline is this?", and "I got goosebumps..." were posted, attracting a lot of attention.
