Official Website
www.ntv.co.jp/ashitamama
Broadcast
Wednesdays, 10.00 – 10.54 p.m. from 15 January 2014
Station
NTV
Story
9-year-old Maki is placed with a children’s orphanage because her mother Ryoka has been arrested by the police for assaulting her boyfriend. She is handed over by Mizusawa Kana, a staff of the Children’s Consultation Office, to a scary-looking Sasaki Tomonori and brought to an orphanage called Kogamo no Ie. Sasaki is the director of the orphanage which has a disquieting atmosphere. Maki meets three girls of the same age at the room that she is shown to. The girls are all no longer able to live with their biological parents for various reasons and call each other by queer nicknames instead of their real names. Piami because she is good at the piano. Bonbi because her family is poor. And then there is the girl called Post who has a commanding presence and is the leader of the children. When Maki learns that Post got her name from the baby hatch she was placed in shortly after her birth, she is lost for words. Piami and Bonbi are curious about Maki, the newcomer. On the other hand, as Post learns about the circumstances behind Maki’s arrival at Kogamo no Ie, she offers blunt words to her. They have cast away everything they received from their parents including their pasts as well as their names. Even if they constantly think about their parents, there will be no happiness. She advises Maki to leave the past behind. Maki is shocked by Post’s behaviour and protests. The children wish for good foster parents to adopt them and happiness with their new families, but Maki feels something wrong with this and wonders if this is the true happiness they are looking for. She is the only one who believes that her mother will come for her. The next day, a couple wishing to adopt Post shows up. There is a “trial” period where the child will spent time at the home of potential foster parents on a few occasions to see if they can be a real family until the foster parents’ adoption is determined. Post spends the “trial” period at the home of the couple, Hosogai and his wife Harumi. It seems that the wealthy couple will make ideal foster parents, but … …
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