Okaeri Mone EPISODE01-120 (Week01-24) [COMPLETE]

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: 120
Release Date: May 17 – October 29, 2021
Runtime: Monday – Friday 8:00-8:15 (15 min.)
Language: Japanese
Country: Japan

Plot Synopsis by AsianWiki Staff ©

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.

Notes

“Welcome Back, Mone” takes over NHK‘s Monday – Friday 08:00 time slot previously occupied by “Ochoyan” and followed by “Come Come Everybody” autumn, 2021.
“Welcome Back, Mone” is NHK’s 104th asadora.