The third episode of NHK's evening drama "Hira Yasumi" (Monday to Thursday, 10:45 p.m.), starring actor Okayama Amane, was broadcast on November 5th, with Riho Yoshioka making her first appearance as Tachibana Yomogi.
The drama is based on the manga of the same name by Shinzo Keigo, which has been serialized in Weekly Big Comic Spirits since 2021. The story follows 29-year-old part-time worker Ikuta Hiroto (Okayama) who inherits a single-story house from his neighbor, Wada Hanae (Negishi Tokie), and begins living with his 18-year-old cousin Kobayashi Natsumi (Mori Nana), who moved to Tokyo from Yamagata. People with difficult life problems gather around them...
Yomogi, played by Yoshioka, works at a real estate company. She is a hard worker and is considered the ace of the company. However, she is so consumed with work that she doesn't have much time to relax. She becomes acquainted with Hiroto by chance, but is often annoyed by his carefree attitude.
In the third episode, Yomogi Tachibana comes to the fishing pond where Hiroto works part-time. Hiroto is concerned about Yomogi, who is busy making work phone calls while fishing, but one of Hiroto's actions angers Yomogi.
Meanwhile, Hiroto is feeling down, but Hideki shows up on his way home from work with some good meat, and they decide to have some yakiniku on the veranda of their one-story house. Despite the delicious yakiniku, Natsumi (Mori Nana) is in a bad mood and stays in her room...
On social media, viewers responded to Yoshioka, who plays Yomogi, with comments such as "Yomogi Riho Yoshioka!", "Riho Yoshioka is here!", and "Yomogi-san!!!! Yoshioka Riho is so cute!". Other comments included, "She's so cute I'm surprised," "Riho Yoshioka has finally arrived. She's so cute," "A treasure of Sagano," "Riho Yoshioka has been wearing these unique clothes lately," and "Wow. 'Hira Yasumi' is hilarious. If Riho Yoshioka played a role like that, she'd be the best in the world."
