The fourth episode of the drama series "Galaxy Vote" (Kansai TV/Fuji TV, Mondays at 10 PM), starring actress Haru Kuroki, aired on May 11th. Akari's (Nichika Akutsu Noro) compassion for Hokuto (Jin Akutsu), a day laborer, touched the hearts of viewers.
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Once he was taken to the hospital, Hokuto began to tell Igarashi (Kenji Iwatani), Mari (Kuroki), and Akari, who were brokering day labor jobs for him, about his life up to that point.
Hokuto failed in his job search during the COVID-19 pandemic, and on top of that, he was sending money to his mother, who was hospitalized with depression, and his younger brother, who was in high school. However, he revealed that he was unable to pay his scholarship and national health insurance premiums because of the money he was sending, and that he had no one to talk to about it.
When Igarashi asked him, "Why didn't you talk to me about it?", Hokuto muttered, "Because it would all end up being a failure. Everything up until now. If I talked to you and got help, I would think that I had failed." Then Akari began to speak in a gentle tone.
"It's not a failure. You just fell into a hole. You were walking straight ahead and not looking down, right? That's why you fell in. You can walk again once you get out of the hole. If you keep walking, you might hear someone crying out for help. You can help them, because you know how to get out," he said, comforting Hokuto.
Social media was buzzing with comments like, "The line, 'You just fell into a hole, it's proof you were walking properly without looking down,' really hit home and brought me to tears," "Akari, you're so kind," "Akari's line in Galaxy's Vote really resonated with me," "It's so gentle, it made me cry," and "I'm going to keep these words as my lucky charm from now on."
The drama is an "election entertainment" story in which Mari Hoshino scouts Akari Tsukioka, a bar owner with no political experience, to be her election strategist, and together they take on the Tokyo gubernatorial election.
