is a Japanese television drama series and the 104th Asadora series, following Ochoyan. It premiered on May 17, 2021 and concluded on October 29, 2021.

Plot

Born in September 1995, Momone Nagaura lived with her parents, grandfather, and sister in Kesennuma City, Miyagi Prefecture. After failing her college entrance exams, she went to live with her grandfather's acquaintance who is a forest guide in Tome City. Momone's life changed when she met a popular weather forecaster from Tokyo who taught her how weather forecasts can predict the future. She decides to study hard and be a weather forecaster.

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Cast

Nagaura's family

Kaya Kiyohara as Momone Nagaura (her nickname was Monet) Seiyō Uchino as Kōji Nagaura, Momone's father Kyōka Suzuki as Ayako Nagaura, Momone's mother Aju Makita as Michi Nagaura, Momone's younger sister Tatsuya Fuji as Tatsumi Nagaura, Momone's grandfather Keiko Takeshita as Masayo Nagaura, Momone's grandmother (also as narrator)

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Momone's classmate and families

Ren Nagase (King & Prince) as Ryō Oikawa, Momone's classmate

Yuri Tsunematsu as Asumi Nomura, Momone's childhood friend

Kōki Maeda as Mitsuo Gotō, Momone's classmate

Hyuga Takada as Yūto Hayasaka, Momone's classmate

Tadanobu Asano as Shinji Oikawa, Ryō's father

Maki Sakai as Minami Oikawa, Ryō's mother

Reiko Kusamura as Fumie, Ryō's grandmother

Tome and Kesennuma people

Mari Natsuki as Sayaka Nitta, a wealthy woman

Kentaro Sakaguchi as Kōtarō Suganami, an young doctor in an clinic

Kenta Hamano as Shōyō Sasaki, the chief of a forestry union

Denden as Hiroshi Kawakubo, an old staff at forestry union

Shinya Tsukamoto as Kazuhisa Tanaka, an master at jazz cafe

Yusuke Hirayama as Nobuhiro Nakayama, an doctor in a clinic

Kōichi Yamadera as Katsutoshi Endō

Sayaka Yamaguchi as Mikako Takahashi

Mizuki Kayashima as Ichika Mizuno

Aoi Itō as Akari Ishii

Norihiko Tsukuda as Shigeki Koyama

Daikichi Sugawara as Jirō Ōta

Tokyo people

People at weather forecast company

Hidetoshi Nishijima as Satoru Asaoka, a weather anchor

Mio Imada as Riko Marianna Jinno, a news anchor

Hiroya Shimizu as Mamoru Uchida, an employee

Misato Morita a Midori Nosaka, an employee

Jun Inoue as Kazumasa Anzai, the company's president

Others

Reo Tamaoki as Kōhei Sawatari, a reporter in charge at Japan Meteorological Agency Saki Takaoka as Satoko Takamura, a meteorological desk at television station Maiko as Natsu Inoue, a Tokyo boardinghouse landlady Koharu Sugawara as Yūki Samejima, an wheelchair marathon athlete

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Production

NHK announced the program would premiere on May 17, 2021 after Ochoyan ended.

References

External links

Official website (in Japanese)

2021 Japanese television series debuts

2021 Japanese television series endings

Asadora

Drama television series about the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami

Television shows set in Miyagi Prefecture

Television shows set in Tokyo