The TBS Tuesday drama "Jaa, Anta ga Tsukutte Miro yo It" (Tuesdays at 10pm), co-starring actors Kaho and Takeuchi Ryoma, will begin airing on October 7th. The story is about a girlfriend (Kaho) who has lost sight of herself and puts her lover first, and her boyfriend (Takeuchi) who has a patriarchal mentality and believes that women should be the ones to cook.
The original work is a manga of the same name by Natsuko Taniguchi, currently serialized in the digital comic magazine "Comic Tanto" (Bunkasha). It won the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize New Generation Award and was ranked first in the "CREA Late Night Manga Awards." The screenplay was written by Kei Ando, head of the Ampersand Theatre Company, who won the Kishida Kunio Drama Award for "Even if you don't walk, you'll hit a stick."
Yamagishi Ayumi, who cooks elaborate meals for her lover and puts her lover first, and Ebihara Katsuo, who has a patriarchal mentality that is somewhat rare in the Reiwa era, have been dating since their university days. They get used to living together and things seem to be going well. Eventually, Katsuo makes the perfect proposal to Ayumi, but she unexpectedly says "no way." Through the opportunity to "cook," Katsuo reexamines the things he took for granted and grows as a person.
Ayami Nakajo plays Ayami Nakajo, who Katsuo meets on a dating app he started using after breaking up with Ayumi, and Yuzu Aoki plays Minato, a liquor store employee who appears in front of Ayumi just after breaking up with Katsuo.
In the first episode... Katsuo (Takeuchi), a businessman working in the city, has an old-fashioned view that "a woman's happiness is cooking at home and waiting for her loved one to come home." His favorite dish is Chikuzenni, a stew made by his live-in girlfriend Ayumi (Kaho). However, every day he eats Ayumi's elaborate home-cooked meals and gives her "advice" such as, "If I had to say one thing, maybe the side dishes are too brown." Ayumi agrees.
One day, Katsuo makes the perfect proposal to Ayumi, but is quickly rejected. Feeling dejected about why he was rejected, Katsuo heads out to a group blind date in search of new love. However, the more he talks, the more he feels that the women who were supposed to be favorably disposed towards him start to pull away.
"Has the world changed while I've been dating Ayumi?" wonders Katsuo, who, at the suggestion of a junior colleague at work, tries making the Chikuzenni that Ayumi always made for him. However, he discovers that the dish he thought he could make is extremely difficult and time-consuming.
After they part ways, Ayumi finds herself in a rather ominous place with unfamiliar friends...
