Ashita, Mama ga Inai
| Ashita, Mama ga Inai | |
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Publicity poster for Ashita, Mama ga Inai
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| Genre | Family |
| Written by | Saya Matsuda |
| Starring |
Mana Ashida, Rio Suzuki |
| Theme music composer | Yoshihiro Ike, Kazuyoshi Saito |
| Ending theme |
Dare ka Watashi o (Kotringo) |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Original language(s) | Japanese |
| No. of episodes | 9 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Hibiki Ito |
| Producer(s) | Shota Fukui, Toshiaki Nanba |
| Cinematography | Ryuichi Inomata, Makoto Nakanuma |
| Editor(s) | Shinji Nojima |
| Running time | 60 minutes |
| Release | |
| Original network | NTV |
| Picture format | HDTV 1080i |
| Audio format | Stereophonic |
| Original release | January 15 – March 12, 2014 |
| External links | |
| Official website | |
Ashita, Mama ga Inai (明日、ママがいない lit: Tomorrow, Mother will not be here?) is a 2014 television drama that first aired on Nippon Television (NTV) on January 15, 2014. It follows the stories of ten children living in an orphanage. The drama stars child actresses Mana Ashida and Rio Suzuki, who are noted for their roles in the television dramas Mother and Women respectively.
The series aired for nine episodes and garnered an average viewership rating of 12.85% in the Kanto region. The series was embroiled in a controversy due to its depiction of orphanages, which was criticized by Japanese welfare organisations.
Maki was left in an orphanage, named Kogamo no Ie (コガモの家), after her mother was arrested for involuntarily causing hurt. Here, she meets "Post", a girl who was abandoned at birth at a baby hatch and other children who have been abandoned by their parents or are taken into under state care due to a history of child abuse. Kogamo no Ie is run by Sasaki, an eccentric housekeeper who runs the orphanage with an iron fist.
The children at the home faces discrimination from the wider society as well as the psychological trauma of being abandoned at the home. While many of the children harbour the hope of eventually being adopted into a loving family, Maki clings onto the hope that her mother would return one day to claim her from this orphanage.
Ashita, Mama ga Inai garnered a viewership rating of 14% in the Kanto region for its first episode. However, due to the controversy it was embroiled in, the viewership rating for its second episode fell to 13.5%. Overall, the series garnered an average viewership rating of 12.85% in the Kanto region.
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