• Title: Etchan (also known as “Little Etsuko”, “Etschan”, “Ecchan”)
• Native Title: 悦ちゃん
• Episodes: 8
• Broadcast Network: NHK
• Release Date: July 15 - September 2, 2017
• English Softsubs by: kowaihitotachi

Synopsis
It is Tokyo in 1935. 10-year-old Yanagi Etsuko is a young girl who loves songs. Her father Kantaro, a struggling lyricist, still cannot forget her late mother and wastes his life away. Seeing her father like this, Etsuko begins a search for Kantaro’s second bride and the new partner who will be her mother. Her first target is her teacher Muraoka Masako whom she eggs on to land a date with her father. However, it does not go very well. The next person who catches her attention is a salesgirl Ikebe Kyoko whom she met at a department store. Etsuko is drawn to Kyoko’s simplicity and gradually begins to love her as if she were her own mother. However, at that moment, Kantaro’s elder sister Tsuruyo pursues the subject of an arranged introduction with Kusakabe Kaoru, the incredibly beautiful daughter of a bank owner who is a shareholder in her husband’s company. ~~Based on the novel “Ecchan” by Shishi Bunroku.

Cast

• Yusuke Santamaria as Yanagi Rokutaro
• Nanaka Hirao as Yanagi Etsuko
• Murakawa Eri as Muraoka Masako
• Kadowaki Mugi as Ikebe Kyoko
• Nishimura Masahiko as Ikebe Makoto
• Horiuchi Keiko as Ikebe Fujiko
• Yazaki Yusa as Ikebe Koto
• Ishida Nicole as Kusakabe Kaoru
• Konna Misako as Kusakabe Kinu
• Yanno Masato as Kusakabe Ichiro
• Minemura Rie as Obayashi Tsuruyo
• Aijima Kazuyuki as Obayashi Shingo
• Oshima Yoko as Ume
• Okamoto Kenichi as Hosono Yumeki
• Hashimoto Atsushi as Hasegawa Jisaku
• Ando Tamae as Haruyatsu
• Nakamura Yasuhi as Kishima
• Kataoka Ainosuke VI as narrator

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Sakurai Tsuyoshi, Shishi Bunroku (novel)
• Producer: Masaru Ochiai, Mio Ietomi
• Director: Ohara Taku, Shimizu Takuya
• Music: Hashimoto Yukari

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