It was revealed on November 25th that the average weekly viewership rating ( Asadora) for the 8th week of "Bakebake " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8am and others), starring Akari Takaishi , "Kubino, Kawa, Ichimai" (November 17th to 21st), was 15.9% (calculated from Video Research, Kanto region), the highest rating for the show.
" Bakebake" is the 113th morning Asadora. Based on the story of Yakumo Koizumi(Lafcadio Hearn) and his wife Setsu, the story follows a couple, with a love of ghost stories, as they go about their everyday lives together with their foreign husband. Takaishi plays the main character, Toki Matsuno, while Tommy Bastow plays Toki's husband, Lefkada Heaven.
In the eighth week, Toki (Takaishi) starts working as a maid for Heaven (Tommy Bastow). However, due to a misunderstanding by Nishikori (Ryo Yoshizawa Ryo), Heaven feels uncomfortable around Toki and fires her. Toki has no choice but to continue working as a maid to support her family, so she tries to get her dismissal revoked by working hard, but her efforts are futile. Meanwhile, Heaven asks her to run an errand to buy some beer.
Toki (Takaishi) somehow manages to get the beer Heaven desires and overcomes the threat of being fired from her job. She practices the skipping she learned from Heaven with Tsukasanosuke(Takashi Okabe), Fumi (Chizuru Ikewaki), Kan'emon (Fumiyo Kohinata) and Sawa (Wan Marui), and she also finds a way to communicate with Heaven, which gives her more peace of mind.
Although she is still inexperienced as a maid, Toki gradually begins to gain recognition in Heaven thanks to her consideration and the flower arranging skills she learned as a daughter of a samurai family. She visits Tae (Keiko Kitagawa) and asks to resume her lessons.
Meanwhile, Nishikori, who is unable to skip, practices secretly in an attempt to master it. However, his students Kotani (Kyohei Shimokawa), Masaki (Yukito Hidaka), his younger brother Takeru (Rairin Sugita), and Heaven find out. Through a series of unexpected events, the topic of skipping arises, suggesting that it may have originated in America, where Heaven was born, but Heaven was not born in America.
A big quiz competition to learn about Heaven began, with Nishikori and his friends, including Toki, joining in...and so on.
