Takumi Kitamura and Takashi Yanase will be modeled to play the heroine’s husband in the morning drama “Anpan” next spring, and will be married to star Mio Imada | ORICON NEWS

NHK announced on the 26th that Takumi Kitamura will appear as Takashi Yanai, the husband of heroine Nobu Asada (Mio Imada) in the TV drama series “Anpan” in the first half of 2025. Takashi Yanai, played by Kitamura, loses his father, who was a correspondent for a newspaper company, when he was young and is taken in by his uncle’s house, where he meets Nobu at the school he transfers to. Since he was young he loved comics and drawing. Although he gets a job in the advertising department of a pharmaceutical company, he is drafted into the military and sent to war. After the war, he meets Nobu again at a newspaper company in Kochi. After following Nobu to Tokyo, he worked in the advertising department of a department store, and with Nobu’s support, he decided to become an independent manga artist and started doing various activities.

The station says, “The story is based on the real person Takashi Yanase (1919-2013), but the story is boldly reconstructed as a story full of ups and downs that lived through turbulent times.The names of characters and organizations are the same. The department will be renamed and will be written as fiction.There is no original work.”

Miho Nakazono’s 112th TV drama series is based on the couple who created Anpanman, Takashi Yanase and Nobu Komatsu. Imada plays Nobu Asada, who is modeled after Nobu Komatsu. She grew up in Kochi with a lot of love from her grandparents and parents. She is the eldest of three sisters. She is fast enough to win the prefectural tournament, and is full of energy and speed, and is a heroine who powerfully overcomes the rough waters of her life. ” It is also called “Idaten Idaten Onobu.” She met Takashi Yanai, who was a bit timid and lacked self-confidence, and they lived together through turbulent times, encouraging and leading him through thick and thin.

Takashi Yanase, a late-blooming manga artist who lived an unsteady life while changing jobs, has written the lyrics for Anpanman’s March, which describes the joy of living at the age of 70. The background behind this is the turbulent times before, during, and after the war. Throughout the times, there was “Hachikin Onobu,” who lived alongside Takashi, who was a little timid and lacked confidence, and continued to lead the way.

The life of two people who had lost the meaning of life and had never forgotten their dreams. It depicts the story of how two people, who were no strangers, overcome all the turbulence to become Anpanman, who embodies “unreversible justice,” and delivers a story of love and courage that will make you feel the joy of living welling up from your whole body.

Although the models are based on real people, Nobu Komatsu (1918-93) and Takashi Yanase (1919-2013), the story has been boldly reconstructed as a story full of ups and downs that lived in a turbulent era, and the names of characters and organizations are included. will be partially renamed and depicted as fiction.