The average viewership rating for all 130 episodes of the NHK Asadora drama "Anpan " (General TV, Monday to Saturday, 8:00 AM), starring Mio Imada , which aired its final episode on September 26th, was 16.1% for households and 9.0% for individuals.
" Anpan" is based on the married couple Takashi Yanase(1919-2013) and Nobu Komatsu(1918-1993), the manga artist and picture book writer who created "Anpanman." 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."
The drama began airing on March 31st, with the first episode recording a household viewership rating of 15.4% and individual viewership rating of 8.6%. The highest ratings for the show were recorded in the final episode, at 18.1% for household viewers and 10.0% for individual viewers. This is the first time in a year that a Asadora has recorded a household viewership rating of over 18.0%, since the final episode of the previous Asadora, "The Tiger and Her Wings" (broadcast on September 27th, 2024), recorded 18.7%.