The 114th episode of the NHK Asadora drama "Bakebake " (General TV, Monday to Saturday 8:00 AM and others), starring Akari Takaishi, was broadcast on March 12th. The episode attracted the attention of viewers with its disturbing ending, in which Nishikori ( Ryo Yoshizawa Ryo) appeared.
Heaven (Tommy Bastow) and Toki (Takaishi) visit Governor Eto (Shiro Sano) to get permission to become Japanese, but are rejected without a word. Toki ambushes Nishikori at the junior high school to ask for his cooperation. Nishikori says, "I knew I would have turned down Heaven for that offer," and tries to leave.
Toki asks Nishikori, "You're not lending me your strength... so you're angry at Heaven... are you?" Nishikori mutters, "Really... no one knows anything," and replies, "I'm not angry at all."
Toki asks why he doesn't talk to the governor about it, to which Nishikori replies, "Because he thinks it would be better not to become Japanese." Toki is surprised, and Nishikori says, "Are you surprised? I thought you would understand a little... But I guess that's understandable... We're family, after all," before walking away.
Heaven, who Kan'emon (Fumiyo Kohinata) gave her the name "Yakumo," wakes up one morning to the sound of rice pounding. Leaving the inn, she stands on the street shrouded in a mystical morning mist, but is left feeling unmoved by the mornings in Matsue that once moved her so deeply, and wonders, "Why?" in confusion. As she stands there on the bridge, Nishikori appears behind Heaven. The episode ends with him asking, "What are you so upset about?"
Comments on social media included, "The last three minutes were just overwhelming," "It was so unsettling," "I couldn't tell if it was a dream or reality," "He was like a ghost," "It gave me goosebumps. I also felt a kind of fear behind the beauty," "His demeanor was already like he wasn't of this world...At this point, Nishikori looks like he's from a ghost story," "Is Nishikori real at the end?" and "Could it be imaginary?"
