| Synopsis | I’m Taking off Work TodayHanae Aoishi is a plain office clerk working steadily in the food division of a trading company and approaching her 30th birthday with no experience with men. She is a so-called Kojirase Joshi (a very complicated woman) who fantasizes that her destined partner will come to take her with him someday. On her 30th birthday、 she goes out for drinks with Yuto Tanokura、 a 21-year-old university student working part-time at her company. Under the influence of alcohol、 the two end up spending the night together. Hanae is so shocked that she takes off work the next day、 but she eventually finds the courage to start a formal relationship with him. As she has no experience with men、 she desperately tries not to be a clingy woman. However、 she swings between elation and desperation by Yuto’s words and behavior、 often debasing herself. Nevertheless、 driven by her desire to be with Yuto、 she continues to rally herself and try her best as his girlfriend.This is a serialized TV drama aired during Nippon TV’s Wednesday Drama time slot from October 15 to December 17、 2014. It stared Haruka Ayase、 an actress who played a lead role in many TV dramas and movies、 alongside Sota Fukushi as Yuto Tanokura and Hiroshi Tamaki as Yu Asao. The scripts were written by Shigeki Kaneko、 who later won the 6th Shinichi Ichikawa Script Award and the 38th Kuniko Mukoda Award.The drama is based on the manga Kyou wa Kaisha Yasumimasu (I’m taking off Work Today) by Mari Fujimura、 which was serialized in Shueisha’s Cocohana magazine from its inaugural January 2012 issue to March 2017 issue. In addition to the 13-volume book series、 two novelized volumes have also been published. |
