The seventh episode of the TBS Friday drama "Fake Mummy" (Fridays at 10 PM), starring actors Haru and Rina Kawaei, aired on November 21st. The behavior of Shingo Motohashi, the president of Mitsuhashi Foods, played by Masaru Kasamatsu, at the end of the episode became a hot topic on social media, with people saying it was "too scary."
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Shingo suspects that his ex-girlfriend Maika's (Kawaei) daughter, Iroha (Ikemura Aoi), is his child.
RAINBOWLAB, the company where Mamie serves as president, has been approved for listing on the stock market. Meanwhile, a bouquet of red roses arrives at Mamie's home. Attached to the bouquet is a document with a message that reads, "Congratulations, Shingo." When Mamie checks it, she finds it to be a "DNA paternity test report," which states that Shingo and Iroha are 99.99% related...
Social media was abuzz with comments such as, "A bouquet of roses lol Shingo is so scary," "Shingo has always been so creepy it's shocking," "His ex-boyfriend went to the trouble of sending him the results of a DNA test. Scary," "Motohashi is so gross for attaching a DNA test result to such a beautiful bouquet of roses, it's scary," "The DNA test result attached to the bouquet was so gross it gave me goosebumps," and "I wonder why Mamiel fell for a guy like that."
The drama is a serial adaptation of the winning work by Sonomura Mitsuru, who won the grand prize at the first TBS NEXT WRITERS CHALLENGE screenplay competition. Kaoru (Haru), who is struggling to find a new job, meets Hidaka Makie, the company president and single mother, at an interview at the venture company RAINBOWLAB. Makie invites Kaoru to a parent-child interview as a stand-in for her daughter Iroha, who is applying to a prestigious private elementary school.
