Bye Godai-san, Hello Dean-san

Asa ga Kita

Asa ga Kita is a 15-minutes serial TV novel (連続テレビ小説) or known as moring drama/asadora (朝ドラ)by a Japanese broadcaster NHK and is currently airing. This dorama is based on a novel inspired by life of Hirooka Asako (1849-1919), a Japanese businesswoman, teacher and social activist. She is praised as wise, strong spirited woman that represented Japanese businesswoman in Meiji era. (Wikipedia)

I started watching Asa ga Kita every morning when I was in Kanazawa on a study abroad program. Thank the cable TV we own has NHK in it, so I can continue watching Asa. But I don't really understand the story, giving the setting is Osaka, they talk with Osaka-ben, and of course no subtitle www. Anyway it's a story about the heroine, Asa, a tomboyish teenage woman who works on coal mining to survive because her dame otto, Shinjirou doesn't want to work :V though now Asa doesn't do the hard job anymore since she gave birth and they're having a good life with the business she's running. Well you can read more about it here D-addicts.

Anyway, I won't write a review of this dorama here, I want to talk about today's episode (or yesterday because it's passed midnight w). It's about my favorite character there, Godai Tomoatsu (Dean Fujioka), which apparently a real life person character. Godai Tomoatsu was one of the Satsuma students of 1865 who were smuggled out of Bakumatsu period Japan to study in Great Britain. He returned to become Japan's leading entrepreneur of the early Meiji period. (Wikipedia) 

Dean Fujioka as Godai Tomoasa

Godai-san was the only person who wore suits even before Meiji era, plus he's so handsome, which is why he's so easy to be recognized. He met Asa when he was a teenager and that time Asa was still a kid. He had a crush on Asa, even after Asa is married to Shinjirou, he still cared about her and helped her a lot, which sometimes made Shinjirou jealous seeing their closeness plus Asa's obliviousness of that. Poor guy... at least you're handsome and smart :') Soooooo he had a disease which was getting worse (Idk what it was) and he was even ready to die anytime. Until today's episode, after Asa knew about his disease, she talked to Godai-san about penguins he told her way before. From what I get, there is this "first penguin", means when penguins jump into the water where there are predators, one must jump first. To Asa, after all these time they struggled with their life and business, Godai-san is that "first penguin". He started something new and kept facing forward despite the obstacles. Hearing what she said, Godai-san cried and became optimistic once again. He then went to Tokyo to treat his disease, but sadly he couldn't survive and passed away.

That moment when I thought this season I'll survive from anime character death pain, suddenly there's my favorite died in a dorama. Why must all my favorites die...........?!?!!?!

Pretty much. (source)

After the dorama was over, there is this program named Asaichi. In this special episode, they invited Dean Fujioka who played Godai-san role because today's episode was the last episode for Godai-san. He's sure loved by the fans;;;;;;;;; And btw thank to that first penguin thing, it's all about penguins when people talk about Dean-san/Godai-san. So cute yet so deep :'''''')

Asaichi started it. (source)

Of course Dean-san talked about Godai-san character (they showed some scenes of him in the dorama) and his own life. There's this shocking truth. He's married to an Indonesian woman and has twin son-daughter and currently lives in Jakarta. PLEASE DO SOMETHING LIKE EVENT AND INVITE HIM OMG LET ME SEE HIM FOR REAL. Also THERE'S HOPE FOR US TO MARRY IKEMEN NIHONJIN, DON'T WORRY *gets hit*

That was probably why I didn't feel good and so dizzy this morning, also I had a dream of meeting Oguri and his wife. WELL IDK WHY IT WASN'T DEAN-SAN BUT THE SITUATION IS KINDA SAME I MEAN FAVORITE ACTORS ARE TAKEN. Then my flu got worsen.

I should go to sleep now. Here have another super handsome Godai-san.

Dean Fujioka (source)

Find out more about Dean-san in the source above or just wiki it. Oyasumi.