The fifth episode of the NHK Asadora drama "Bakebake " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM and others), starring Akari Takaishi , was broadcast on October 3rd, and the preview video, which was released after the main program and featured narration by the comedy duo "Asagaya Sisters," who voice the snake and frog, drew comments from viewers such as "It's so innovative" and "It's new and I like it."
" Bakebake" is based on the story of Koizumi Setsu, the daughter of a fallen samurai from Matsue, and her husband Yakumo (Lafcadio Hearn), and depicts the heroine, who loves ghost stories, going about her everyday life with her foreign husband. The script is written by Fujiki Mitsuhiko, who has worked on NHK's "Asagaya Sisters' Relaxed Life" and WOWOW's "Shooting Break Series."
The fifth episode is set in 1886 (Meiji 19). Toki (Takaishi), now 18, is working at a weaving factory run by his relative Den Ushimizu(Shinichi Tsutsumi) to pay off his debts, and the Matsuno family has moved from their previous home to a tenement house across the river. One day, debt collector Moriyama Zentaro (Iwatani Kenji) comes to collect and says that if Toki cannot pay her debts, he will make her work in a brothel. Toki proposes to marry a husband, increase the number of workers, and pay off her debts...and so the story unfolds.
The subtitle for the second week, which begins on October 6th, is "Muko, Morau, Difficult." In the preview, a narrator plays as if the snake (played by Watanabe Eriko) and the frog (played by Kimura Miho) are having a conversation while watching a video, and as they look at the members of the Matsuno family attending the matchmaking, they exchange comical comments such as "Wow, what a nice place," "Everyone looks so neat and tidy," "That's right, next time we'll be planning a matchmaking session to escape poverty!" and "Oh my... Good luck!"
On social media, people were saying things like, "Next week's preview featuring a snake and a frog is so innovative lol," "It's like a secondary audio track lol," "I think this is the first time we've had a narrator in next week's preview," "Next week's preview is basically just a conversation between me and my mom," "I like the new style of the narrator squealing in next week's preview," "It's really like an old lady yelling while watching TV," and "I can't wait for the previews starting next week."
