Okaeri Mone (おかえりモネ, Welcome Home, Monet) 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.
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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.
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)
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, a young doctor in a 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, a master at jazz cafe
Yusuke Hirayama as Nobuhiro Nakayama, a 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
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
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
Production
NHK announced the program would premiere on May 17, 2021 after Ochoyan ended.