Official Website
www.fujitv.co.jp/ghostwriter
Broadcast
Tuesdays, 9.00 – 9.54 p.m. from 13 January 2015
Station
Fuji TV
Story
Tono Risa, Japan’s leading female writer, attends an award presentation ceremony for new writers as a member of the selection committee. She is the focal point of the event, which is organised by major publishing firm, Shunpo Co. The editors Oda Hayato and Tsukada Manami as well as deputy chief editor Tsubota Tomoyuki frantically give a boost to Risa, who does not seem to be very interested. Regarded as a gifted writer, Risa has already made a name for herself in her 30s. But behind that acclaim, she privately agonises that she is at the end of the road. She has a writer’s block. In a room at the publishing firm around the same time, Shunpo’s chief editor Kanzaki Yuji makes a presentation on the film adaptation of a book which Risa is going to write, to managing director, Torikai Masayoshi, and the other members of the board of directors. All ten of Risa’s books, which were made into movies in the last 7 years, were big hits. Some books even sold 3 million paperback copies. On the other hand, Kawahara Yuki is a young woman in her 20s who enthusiastically came to Tokyo with the dream of becoming a writer. She kept participating in many writers awards in the past one year, but was always unsuccessful. She makes a promise to herself return to her hometown and marry her fiance. Although that is what she is supposed to do, she still cannot give up. She takes the remaining manuscript with her and visits Shunpo Co, thinking that she will resign herself to the situation if a professional editor tells her that she has no talent. However, it is rejected at the front desk. Oda, who has been struggling to find an assistant for Risa, happens to hear Yuki’s exchange with the receptionist and calls out to her. Unexpectedly offered a position as the assistant of the writer she admires, Yuki wavers. This is about to be a big turning point in her life. So too for Risa … … Yuki decides to be Risa’s assistant in exchange for the acceptance of her manuscript. The two of them start off as master and apprentice, but the situation rapidly changes. Tired of her title as a genius and unable to confide in anyone that she has exhausted her own ability, Risa entrusts Yuki with being her ghost writer. Risa gets distressed about pretending to be someone she is not in the shadows of her glittering career, but continues to act the way the people think of her. The talented Yuki finds the admiration she should have for Risa, transform into bitter animosity. Oda, who took Yuki’s manuscript and casually starts to read it, discovers her talent. He becomes the one who understands Yuki the most, and struggles in his attempt to make her stop being Risa’s ghost writer and debut as an novelist.
Characters
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