Okaeri Mone (2021) [Week 1 – 2]

Profile

• Drama: Welcome Back, Mone (literal title)
• Romaji: Okaeri Mone
• Japanese: おかえりモネ

• Director: Masae Ichiki, Toki Kajiwara, Tomohiro Kuwano, Yasuko Tsuda
• Writer: Naoko Adachi
• Network: NHK
• Episodes:
• Release Date: May 17, 2021 —
• Runtime: Monday – Friday 8:00-8:15 (15 min.)
• Language: Japanese
• Country: Japan

Synopsis

Momone Nagaura (Kaya Kiyohara) lives with her parents, grandfather and younger sister on an island in Kesennuma Bay, Miyagi Prefecture. In the spring of 2014, Momone Nagaura graduates from high school and moves to the city of Tome. She fails to enter a university. While she tries to figure out what to do with her life, she begins to work as an apprentice of a forest guide. A turning point in her life occurs. A popular weather forecaster from Tokyo arrives. Momone Nagaura walks on a mountain with the weather forecaster. She hears from the weather forecaster that the weather forecaster can predict the future. Momone Nagaura becomes touched by that comment and decides to become a weather forecaster. She studies hard for the exam to become a weather forecaster. With the help of the people around her in Tome, she finally passes the exam. Momone Nagaura moves to Tokyo and begins to work at a private weather forecasting company. Working there, she grows up as a weather forecaster. Several years later, in 2019, a major typhoon approaches Japan. To help her hometown, she heads to Kesennuma Bay.

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