It was revealed on February 24th that the average weekly audience rating (households) for the 20th week of the NHK morning drama "Bakeke" (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM and others), starring Takaishi Akari, "Anta, Gata, Dokosa" (February 16th to 20th), was 15.2% (calculated from Video Research, Kanto region). This is a slight increase from the 15.0% of the previous week, the 19th week.
"Bakeke" is the 113th morning drama. Based on the story of Lafcadio Hearn (Koizumi Yakumo) 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, Matsuno Toki, while Tommy Bastow plays Toki's husband, Lefkada Heaven.
In the 20th week, Toki (Takaishi) and Heaven (Tommy Bastow) began their new life in Kumamoto.
The Matsuno family has become a large household with the addition of Tsukasasuke (Takashi Okabe), Fumi (Chizuru Ikewaki), Takeru (Rairin Sugita) and Masaki (Yukito Hidaka) who came from Matsue as students, the rickshaw driver Nagami (Nobumitsu Onishi), and the new maid Kuma (Toru Natsume). Everyone spends their days peacefully, but being too peaceful becomes a problem.
Meanwhile, at the Matsuno household, the grill for toasting breakfast bread goes missing. Who is the culprit? Masaki (Hidaka Yukito)'s deductions lead each member to begin to suspect the other, and eventually Kuma announces that she will "quit being a maid"...
