It was revealed on March 23rd that the average weekly viewership rating ( Asadora) for the 24th week of the NHK morning drama series "Bakebake " (NHK General, Monday-Saturday 8:00 AM, etc.), starring Akari Takaishi, titled "Kaidan, Kaku, Shimasu." (March 16-20), was 14.8% (calculated from Video Research data, Kanto region).
" Bakebake" is the 113th Asadora . Based on the lives of Lafcadio Hearn Yakumo Koizumi and his wife Setsu, it is a story of a married couple, where the heroine, who loves ghost stories, lives an ordinary life with her foreign husband. Takashi plays the main character, Toki Matsuno, and Tommy Bastow plays Toki's husband, Lefkada Heaven.
In Week 24, ten years have passed, and Toki (Takaishi) and Heaven (Tommy Bastow) are in Okubo, Tokyo.
Heaven was living peaceful days with her eldest son Kanta, second son Isao, Tsukasanosuke(Takashi Okabe), Fumi (Chizuru Ikewaki), and Kuma (Toha Natsume). Heaven commuted between home and the Imperial University where she worked as a teacher, teaching English to the children. Toki supported Heaven and watched over the children's growth. Toki was content with her peaceful, happy, and utopian life in Tokyo. However, Heaven was harboring a secret worry.
Heaven had actually been fired from the Imperial University. His writing career was also struggling, and he wasn't receiving replies to letters from Eliza (Charlotte Kate Fox), whom he relied on, or from other people involved, so his anxiety was growing.
Eventually, Heaven confided everything to Toki, who suggested that Heaven write a book that he could read himself. A book that Toki could read, a book that Toki wanted to read. That book was a ghost story! Toki and Heaven began writing a ghost story together. And what they ended up writing was...
