# Ranman (TV series)

Ranman (らんまん) is a Japanese television drama series and the 108th Asadora series, following Maiagare!. It premiered on April 3, 2023. The drama is modeled after the Japanese botanist Tomitaro Makino, but it is produced as fiction and is an original drama work.

## Cast
### Makino's family

* Ryūnosuke Kamiki as Mantarō Makino
** Yurito Mori as young Mantarō
** Masahito Kobayashi as 9-to-12-year-old Mantarō
* Minami Hamabe as Sueko Nishimura, Mantarō's wife
* Sakura Endō (Nogizaka46) as Chitose Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's daughter and Kotetsu's wife
* Kōdai Matsuoka as Momoki Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's son
* Miyu Honda as Chizuru Makino, Mantarō and Sueko's youngest daughter
** Keiko Matsuzaka as old Chizuru

### Mineya people

* Yui Sakuma as Aya Makino, Mantarō's sister
* Jun Shison as Takeo, son of the clerk of the sake brewery "Mineya"
* Shō Kasamatsu as Kōkichi, a brewer at "Mineya"
* Riho Nakamura as Tama, a maid at "Mineya"
* Ryōko Hirosue as Hisa Makino, Mantarō's mother
* Keiko Matsuzaka as Taki Makino, Mantarō's grandmother

### Kochi version

* Wakako Shimazaki as Kie Kusuno, a civil rights movement supporter
* Yasufumi Terawaki as Rankō Ikeda, head of the academic institution "Meikyoukan"
* Dean Fujioka as Tengu / Sakamoto Ryōma
* Mamoru Miyano as Itsuma Hayakawa, a freedom and civil rights activist in Kochi
* Ryudo Uzaki as Nakahama Manjirō
* Hiroshi Miyama as Gihei Hamamura, owner of "Sengokuya", a kimono merchant in Kochi

### Tokyo version

* Riho Makise as Matsu Nishimura, Sueko's mother
* Mansaku Ikeuchi as Bunta Abe, confectioner at Hakubaido
* Aoi Nakamura as Yūichirō Hirose, Mantaro's schoolmate who working in the Ministry of Engineering.
* Seiichi Tanabe as Motoyoshi Noda, a botanist
* Seikō Itō as Yoshio Satonaka, a botanist

#### related persons the restaurant “Misato”

* Emma Miyazawa as Mie Kasazaki, Sueko's aunt and Matsu's sister
* Sarutoki Minagawa as Yanosuke Iwasaki, an industrialist
* Koen Kondo as Tadanori Onda, an army colonel
* Ryū Morioka as Keiichi Aijima, Ministry of Communications Railway Agency bureaucrat
* Sōma Suzuki as Michinari Kakegawa, a politician

#### The University of Tokyo Persons

* Jun Kaname as Akihisa Tanabe, a founding professor of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
* Tetsushi Tanaka as Seiichi Tokunaga, an associate professor at the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
* Hiroki Konno as Shozaburo Ōkubo, an Lecturer in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
* Ko Maehara as Yasuhisa Hatano, an student in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
* Mizuki Maehara as Jiro Hujimaru, an student in the Department of Botany, University of Tokyo
* Hiroshi Yamamoto as Hideyoshi Mimasaka, a professor at the University of Tokyo

#### Jiitoku row house

* Shunsuke Daito as Hayato Kuraki, former elite samurai
* Riko Narumi as Ei Kuraki, Hayato's wife
* Tetsuhiro Ikeda as Fukuji Oikawa
* Tamae Ando as Rin Eguchi, manager of Jutoku Nagaya
* Kasumi Yamaya as Yū Usami, maid at small restaurant
* Tatsuya Yamawaki as Jōnosuke Horii, a failed student who attends the Faculty of Letters at the University of Tokyo.
* Takashi Sumida as Ushikutei Kyubei, a storyteller who lives in Jutoku Nagaya.

#### Ohata Printing Office

* Eiji Okuda as Gihei Ōhata, factory owner of Ohata Printing Office
* Mayu Tsuruta as Ichi Ōhata, Gihei's wife
* Meimi Tamura as Kayo Ōhata, Gihei and Ichi's daughter

#### People around Sueko

* Kanata Irei as Masanori Takatō, former Satsuma samurai businessman
* Ariei Umefune as Yae Takatō, Masanori's wife
* Takeshi Kongochi as Kashima, Masanori's secretary
* Ananda Jacobs as Clara Lawrence, Sueko's music and dance teacher
* Seina Nakata as Satoko Tanabe, Akihisa's wife, Sueko's friend
* Atsuko Fukuda as a maid of the Tanabe family

#### People of Shibuya

* Tateto Serizawa as Satarō Aratani, The owner of the pub "Aratani".
* Masayo Umezawa as Kane Aratani, Satarō's mother
* Jun Inoue as Hiroshi Sato,"Kōbō-yu" owner
* Noriko Iriyama as Toyoka, former Yanagibashi geisha
* Rion Misaki as Hazuki, former Yanagibashi geisha
* Naoto Kaihō as Ichizo Kobayashi, an industrialist
* Zen Ishikawa as Ryōtarō Saeki, a senior government official
* Ichirō Mikami as Eiken Shirakawa, former councillor
* Mizuki Machida as Masamune Nasukawa, director of the Japan Orchestra Association

### Others

* Daisuke Ono as Sengokuya
* Hisahiro Ogura as Nakao, a pawn shop owner
* Kazu Murakami as Matsuya
* Masahiro Sato as Ikedaya
* Satoshi Hashimoto as Mori Arinori, first Minister of Education, a benefactor of Akihisa Tanabe
* Yasuyuki Sakai as a doctor
* Nasubi as a package delivery man
* Naomasa Musaka as Isobe, a debt collector
* Tatsuomi Hamada as Kotetsu Yamamoto
** Kokoro Terada as young Kotetsu
* Taishi Nakagawa as Tōru Nagamori

## TV schedule

| Week | Episodes | Title | Directed by | Original airdate | Rating |
| 1 | 1–5 | "Baikaōren" (バイカオウレン, Coptis quinquefolia) | Yoshio Watanabe | April 3–7, 2023 | 15.4% |
| 2 | 6–10 | "Kinseiran" (キンセイラン, Calanthe nipponica) | Yoshio Watanabe | April 10–14, 2023 | 15.1% |
| 3 | 11–15 | "Jōrōhototogisu" (ジョウロウホトトギス, Tricyrtis macrantha) | Yoshio Watanabe | April 17–21, 2023 | 15.8% |
| 4 | 16–20 | "Sasayuri" (ササユリ, Lilium japonicum) | Atsuko Tsuda | April 24–28, 2023 | 15.8% |
| 5 | 21–25 | "Kitsunenokamisori" (キツネノカミソリ, Lycoris sanguinea) | Atsuko Tsuda | May 1–5, 2023 | 14.4% |
| 6 | 26–30 | "Dokudami" (ドクダミ, Houttuynia cordata) | Yoshio Watanabe | May 8–12, 2023 | 16.5% |
| 7 | 31–35 | "Botan" (ボタン, Paeonia suffruticosa) | Yoshio Watanabe | May 15–19, 2023 | 16.3% |
| 8 | 36–40 | "Shirotsumekusa" (シロツメクサ, Trifolium repens) | Atsuko Tsuda | May 22–26, 2023 | 16.3% |
| 9 | 41–45 | "Hirumushiro" (ヒルムシロ, Potamogeton distinctus) | Takashi Fukagawa | May 29–June 2, 2023 | 16.1% |
| 10 | 46–50 | "Noazami" (ノアザミ, Cirsium japonicum) | Takashi Fukagawa | June 5–9, 2023 | 16.5% |
| 11 | 51–55 | "Yūgao" (ユウガオ, Lagenaria siceraria var. hispida) | Tetsuya Watanabe | June 12–16, 2023 | 17.1% |
| 12 | 56–60 | "Marubamannengusa" (マルバマンネングサ, Sedum makinoi) | Yoshio Watanabe | June 19–23, 2023 | 17.3% |
| 13 | 61–65 | "Yamazakura" (ヤマザクラ, Cerasus jamasakura) | Yoshio Watanabe | June 26–30, 2023 | 17.0% |
| 14 | 66–70 | "Hōraishida" (ホウライシダ, Adiantum capillus-veneris L.) | Takashi Fukagawa | July 3–7, 2023 | 17.0% |
| 15 | 71–75 | "Yamatogusa" (ヤマトグサ, Theligonum japonica Okubo et Makino) | Shin'ichirō Ishikawa | July 10–14, 2023 | 17.1% |
| 16 | 76–80 | "Kōrogiran" (コオロギラン, Stigmatodactylus sikokianus Maxim. ex Makino) | Atsuko Tsuda | July 17–21, 2023 | 16.3% |
| 17 | 81–85 | "Mujinamo" (ムジナモ, Aldrovanda vesiculosa) | Tetsuya Watanabe | July 24–28, 2023 | 16.8% |
| 18 | 86–90 | "Himesumire" (ヒメスミレ, Viola inconspicua subsp. nagasakiensis) | Yoshio Watanabe | July 31–August 4, 2023 | 16.8% |
| 19 | 91–95 | "Yakkosō" (ヤッコソウ, Mitrastemon yamamotoi Makino) | Yoshio Watanabe | August 7–11, 2023 | 16.8% |
| 20 | 96–100 | "Kirengeshōma" (キレンゲショウマ, Kirengeshoma palmata Yatabe) | Takashi Fukagawa | August 14–18, 2023 | 17.1% |
| 21 | 101–105 | "Nojigiku" (ノジギク, Chrysanthemum japonense) | Atsuko Tsuda | August 21–25, 2023 | 17.4% |
| 22 | 106–110 | "Ōgyōchi" (オーギョーチ, Ficus pumila var. awkeotsang) | Naoki Kobayashi | August 28–September 1, 2023 | 17.5% |
| 23 | 111–115 | "Yamamomo" (ヤマモモ, Morella rubra) | Shin'ichirō Ishikawa | September 4–8, 2023 | 17.8% |
| 24 | 116–120 | "Tsuchitorimochi" (ツチトリモチ, Balanophora japonica) | Hiroshi Kaida and Takashi Fukagawa | September 11–15, 2023 | 17.1% |
| 25 | 121–125 | "Murasakikatabami" (ムラサキカタバミ, Oxalis debilis Kunth 1822) | Yoshio Watanabe | September 18–22, 2023 | 17.3% |
| 26 | 126–130 | "Suekozasa" (スエコザサ, Sasaella ramosa var. suwekoana) | Yoshio Watanabe | September 25–29, 2023 | 17.6% |
| Average rating 16.6% - Rating is based on Japanese Video Research (Kantō region). ||||||