NHK's night drama "Someday, in Zero Gravity's Sky" (General TV, Monday to Thursday, 10:45 PM), starring actor Kiryu Aso, is airing its final week. The final episode (episode 32) on October 30th is...
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The drama features four girls from the astronomy club who, in high school, shared their dream of "going to space together." As they grow up and go their separate ways, they suddenly reunite with their forgotten dreams. "If we had a micro-satellite, maybe even we could aim for space today..." Encouraged by their "older selves," they begin their second youth...
Kiryu will play the main character, Mochizuki Asuka, while Morita will play Hibino Hikari, whom Asuka reunites with. Other cast members include Katayama Yuki as Mizuhara Shu, a friend of Asuka and Hikari's in the astronomy club, Ito Marika as Kiuchi Haruko, and Okudaira as Kanazawa Sui, a university student in a space engineering lab. The drama is narrated by Tasuku Emoto.
In episode 32, the artificial satellite that Asuka and her friends completed successfully takes off into space, and they finally take on the mission that Hikari came up with: to utter a famous quote when looking at the Earth from space.
Asuka, Amane, and Haruko are thinking about the voice that reaches Earth from space. Then, Sui says something unexpected. As we grow up, the gravity of this world grows stronger little by little. What lies beyond the dreams that these adults are striving for? Scene cuts have also been released.
