Ranman
Title: Ranman / らんまん
Genre: Drama
Episodes: TBD
Broadcast network: NHK
Broadcast period: 2023-Apr-?? to 2023-Oct-??
Screenwriter: Osada Ikue (長田育恵)
Producer: Itagaki Maiko, Asanuma Toshinobu (浅沼利信), Fujiwara Norihisa (藤原敬久)
Director: Watanabe Yoshio, Tsuda Atsuko (津田温子), Fukagawa Takashi (深川貴志)

Cast:

• Makino Family
• Kamiki Ryunosuke as Makino Mantaro
• Hamabe Minami as Makino Sueko (Mantaro’s wife)
• Hirosue Ryoko as Makino Hisa (Mantaro’s mother)
• Sakuma Yui as Makino Aya (Mantaro’s elder sister)
• Matsuzaka Keiko as Makino Taki (Mantaro’s grandmother)
• Shison Jun as Takeo (Head attendant’s son)
• Kasamatsu Sho as Kokichi (Brewer)
• Nakamura Riho as Tama (Maid)
• Shimazaki Wakako as Kusuno Kie (Woman supporting Civil Liberties Movement)
• Terawaki Yasufumi as Ikeda Ranko (Head of academic institute)

Synopsis

Around the end of the Edo period, Makino Mantaro was born into a wealthy family that runs a sake brewery in Kochi. Due to his weak body, Mantaro was often bullied but he showed huge interest and talent in plants. He decided to drop out of elementary school and study botany with the dream of “discovering all the plants in Japan” and creating his own botanical illustration book.