The second episode of the Fuji TV Getsuku drama "Saba-can, Uchuu e Iku" (Mondays at 9pm), starring actor Takumi Kitamura , aired on April 20th, and it has been revealed that the average viewership rating (according to Video Research, Kanto region) was 4.1% for households and 2.6% for individuals.
The drama is an original coming-of-age story based on the true story of students at a fisheries high school in Fukui Prefecture who challenged themselves to achieve their big dream of "developing space food." Kitamura plays the protagonist, a rookie high school teacher.
The subtitle of the second episode was "Teacher struggles to meet the conditions for sending canned mackerel into space, but students get in the way." It was about Teacher Asano (Kitamura) taking on a grand dream that began with a student's murmur, "I wonder if we can send our canned mackerel into space too?", but facing harsh realities and causing discord among the students...
