The first episode of the drama series "Aku no Hana" (TV Tokyo and others, Thursdays at midnight), starring actor Fuku Suzuki and singer Ano, also known as "Ano-chan," aired late at night on April Getsuku, and viewers reacted to the preview for the next episode that followed.
The drama is based on the manga of the same name by Shuzo Oshimi, which was serialized in "Bessatsu Shonen Magazine" (Kodansha) from 2009 to 2014, recorded a cumulative circulation of 3.25 million copies, and was nominated for the "Manga Taisho" award. It depicts the "reckless behavior" of adolescent boys and girls.
In the first episode, Takao Kasuga (Suzuki) is a middle school student living in a closed-off town, feeling stifled and clinging to the poetry collection "The Flowers of Evil." His only hope is his classmate, the goddess Nanako Saeki (Manami Igashira). One afternoon after school, he returns to the classroom to retrieve something he forgot and finds Saeki's gym clothes lying on the floor. He instinctively picks them up and sniffs them, but suddenly hears a noise and impulsively steals them before running away.
The next day, while tormented by guilt, he is approached by Sawa Nakamura (Ano-san), who had witnessed the whole thing...and that's how the story unfolds.
The narration for the next episode preview of the drama is provided by popular voice actress Kotono Mitsuishi, known for her roles as Usagi Tsukino in "Sailor Moon," Misato Katsuragi in "Neon Genesis Evangelion," and Boa Hancock in "One Piece," and viewers have been reacting to her distinctive voice.
On social media, many comments were posted such as, "Is that Kotono Mitsuishi in the preview?", "The next episode preview is Misato (voiced by Kotono Mitsuishi)", "It's a quiet tone, but this is definitely Evangelion", "Kotono Mitsuishi's next episode preview is so Evangelion lol", "The next episode preview sounded like it was going to say 'service, service'", "Kotono Mitsuishi's next episode preview is so Evangelion lol", and "The narration for the next episode preview is by Mitsuishi, so I thought she was going to say 'service, service'. It is TV Tokyo after all."
