TV series
The Hot Spot
Overview
Kiyomi Endo is a single mother working at a business hotel near Mount Fuji whose life takes an unexpected twist after an encounter with an alien.
Details
- First air date
- 2025-01-12
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 10 episodes
- Genres
- Comedy, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
- Network
- Nippon TV
- Production
- Nippon Television Network Corporation
- Country
- JP
- Original language
- JA
Cast
- Mikako Ichikawa as Endo Kiyomi / "Ki"
- Akihiro Kakuta as Takahashi Kosuke
- Anne Suzuki as Hazuki Nakamura
- Kami Hiraiwa as Minami Hibino
- Kaho as Yumi Isomura
- Naoki Tanaka as Takahiro Okuda
- Kayo Noro as Kozue Nakamoto
- Maki Sakai as Eri Sawada
- Moeno Sumida as Wakaba Endo
- Fumiyo Kohinata as Fumio Murakami
- Haruka Kinami as Ayano Okada
- Sosuke Ikematsu as Yuma Kishimoto
Creators and crew
- Bakarhythm - Creator
- Yamada Nobuyoshi - Director
- Itaru Mizuno - Director
- Bakarhythm - Screenplay
Episodes
Episode 1
Kiyomi Endo lives an ordinary life working at a cheap hotel in her hometown. One day, she nearly gets in a traffic accident but is saved by an alien.
Episode 2
After Hacchi tells her friends about a conundrum at the elementary school where she teaches, she asks Kiyomi to persuade Takahashi to lend his help.
Episode 3
Kiyomi and her friends run into an old classmate while lunching with Takahashi. Some unexpected events threaten to expose Takahashi's identity.
Episode 4
After Ayano's bicycle is stolen, Kiyomi decides to ask Takahashi to find it. Later, they deal with some trouble during their night shift at the hotel.
Episode 5
As a TV crew interviews the locals, Ayano's daughter says she saw a bespectacled man running at high speed. Yumi shows Kiyomi a bent coin she found.
Episode 6
Kiyomi and her friends go to a bar run by a former classmate. At the hotel, Yumi asks a reluctant Takahashi to demonstrate his other powers for her.
Episode 7
Kishimoto from the TV station returns to the town on Mount Fuji Day to seek the truth about the high-speed man, who he begins to suspect is Takahashi.
Episode 8
After Kiyomi tells her friends what Murakami said about the future, they worry that Takahashi will be most affected by the hotel's eventual fate.
Episode 9
Kiyomi, Hacchi, Minapuu and Takahashi begin discussing how they can protect Takahashi's source of energy and prevent the hotel from being torn down.
Episode 10
After Takahashi is forced to escape the office empty-handed, he and the others must find another way to expose the hotel owner and mayor’s collusion.
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