The first episode of the drama series "Shumaku no Rondo" (Kantele/Fuji TV, Mondays at 10pm), starring Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, aired on October 13th. Freelance writer Hatano Yusuke, played by Yudai Furukawa, drew attention on social media, with comments such as "There's something suspicious about him again" and "He's just so suspicious."
◇The following contains spoilers
The drama is a human drama about Torikai Itsuki (Kusanagi), an estate organizer who is raising his young son alone, and who, together with his colleagues at the estate organizer company, supports families with various circumstances.
Hatano is a freelance writer who is sniffing around the large company Mikuriya Holdings. He shows up at a publication party for picture book author Mikuriya Makoto (Nakamura Yuri), wife of Mikuriya Holdings' successor, Toshihito (Kaname Jun), to find out what's going on.
Later, Hatano visits Isobe (Masatoshi Nakamura), the president of Heaven's Messenger, a company that sorts out personal belongings. Isobe is out, so Itsuki answers the door in his place. Hatano tells him, "Please tell him I have something I'd like to ask you about my son, who committed suicide 10 years ago."
As Hatano leaves "Heaven's messenger," he passes Makoto and becomes convinced that "that woman... is Mikuriya's (wife)."
On social media, there was a lot of buzz, with comments such as "There's something suspicious about Furukawa Yudai again," "Furukawa Yudai as a freelance writer is just so suspicious," "Yudai played an ominous role (it suited him)," "When Furukawa Yudai appears, the atmosphere becomes ominous all at once. In a good way, of course," and "I'm curious to see how the writer played by Furukawa Yudai will get involved."
