It was revealed on March 9th that the average weekly audience rating ( Asadora drama "Bakebake " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM and others), starring Akari Takaishi , "Atarashi, No, Jinsei" (March Getsuku to 6th), was 14.7% (calculated from Video Research, Kanto region). This was lower than the 15.2% of the previous week, the 20th week.
"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 22nd week, Toki (Takaishi) meets Ran (Misako Renbutsu) in Kumamoto and deepens their relationship. Like Heaven (Tommy Bastow), Ran has a Western husband, Robert (Joe Tremaine), and can speak English, and Toki begins to feel affection for her.
One day, Haven receives a letter from America. The sender is Eliza (Charlotte Kate Fox). Haven is attracted to the request to leave Japan, travel the world, and write about her experiences there. Meanwhile, Toki learns that she has been given a "new life."
Encouraged by Ran, Heaven decides to leave Toki behind in Japan and travel to the Philippines. Toki also decides to stay in Japan with her unborn child and family and to support Heaven's writing career, but...
Six months pass in the blink of an eye, and the day arrives for Toki to give birth. With Fumi (Chizuru Ikewaki), Kuma (Natsume Towa), and the midwife (Hara Fukiko) looking on, Toki finally gives birth to Heaven's child and becomes a mother. While everyone in the Matsuno family is doting on the child, Masaki (Yukito Hidaka) notices something. It is about the family register, and Toki and Heaven have decided to register their marriage and officially become a family... and so the story unfolds.
