<figure id="attachment_293076" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-293076" style="width: 1280px" class="wp-caption alignnone"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="a0625828"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2023/01/70ed2195447017ef1aeaeff190dcaec4.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-293076" class="wp-caption-text">Kusanagi Tsuyoshi starred in his first terrestrial drama in six years with &#8220;War of the Traps. The drama was well-received, but&#8230;</figcaption></figure>
 The drama &#8220;War of the Traps&#8221; (broadcast by Fuji Television Network and produced by Kansai Television), starring Kusanagi Tsuyoshi, is off to a good start and is attracting a lot of attention.
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 Household viewership ratings for the first episode were 9.3% in the Kanto region and 13.1% in the Kansai region, with the numbers also increasing for the second episode, which can be considered a passing grade in light of recent drama viewership ratings.
 The second episode also saw an increase in ratings, which is a passable figure in light of recent drama ratings.
 In addition, Fuji TV&#8217;s Monday 10 o&#8217;clock slot used to air &#8220;SMAP x SMAP,&#8221; and the drama&#8217;s theme song was sung by &#8220;Shingo Katori x Seventeen,&#8221; so there was no shortage of topics to discuss.
 The drama is an original work by screenwriter Goto Noriko, and is the third in the &#8220;War Series&#8221; following &#8220;Sen no Senso&#8221; (January &#8217;15) and &#8220;Uso no Senso&#8221; (January &#8217;17), both starring Kusanagi.
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 The beloved son of Toru Washizu (Kusanagi), a secretary to a member of the Diet, is pushed off a pedestrian bridge by someone. Many viewers may be moved by Washizu&#8217;s determination to avenge his son&#8217;s death, as he devises all kinds of schemes and clever traps to track down the culprit and the mastermind behind the crime.
 The drama is about a politician and his revenge against the insolent people who are stirring around him, but in the background are depictions of corruption and other political injustices. There are various stories that seem to be about what real lawmakers would do, and among them, an impressive incident that a current lawmaker committed in the past has been ridiculed, and it has become a topic of conversation on the Internet and other media.
 In the second episode, when the conversation expanded to methods of destroying evidence such as back books, Washizu&#8217;s subordinate secretary, Rie Hotaruhara (Hanashi Ono), said, &#8220;You were there, weren&#8217;t you?
 There was a council member who, when his house was raided, panicked and smashed his computer&#8217;s hard disk with a drill.
 Everyone knows that this drama is a fiction, but many may have thought of House of Representatives member Obuchi Yuko.
 In fact, on the Internet
 There was a politician who broke a computer with a drill, wasn&#8217;t there? 
 I&#8217;m talking about Yuko Obuchi. Kantele is as aggressive as ever.
 Kantele is as aggressive as ever,&#8221; and other comments that could be taken as praise abounded.
 However, there were those who could not honestly say, &#8220;Interesting! However, there were those who could not say, &#8220;That&#8217;s so funny!
 Kusanagi&#8217;s acting is excellent, and the story unfolds quickly. It&#8217;s also satirical. Although it is on another station, many people are watching it and talking about it.
 However, it is difficult to talk about that scene within the station. Mr. Obuchi&#8217;s husband is our Director of Programming, Katsuyoshi Setoguchi (now Mr. Obuchi). Naturally, he would not be amused at being teased like that, and moreover, he is very strict about the numbers&#8230;&#8221;
 Mr. Obuchi was involved in several hit productions during his time as a producer, including &#8220;Boys Over Flowers,&#8221; &#8220;The Great Family&#8221; starring Takuya Kimura, and &#8220;A Life: The Man I Love,&#8221; and was known as the &#8220;high viewer rating man&#8221; because of the high ratings of these dramas.
 Because of this connection, some people at the station have even suggested that this may be a &#8220;declaration of war&#8221; by Kantele.
 However, while &#8220;War of the Traps&#8221; is garnering nearly 10% viewer ratings, TBS&#8217;s back-up program, &#8220;Monday Frogs Know the Ocean,&#8221; is struggling. is struggling. I don&#8217;t think that Kantele has sold out to TBS&#8230;. However, the &#8220;ratings war&#8221; has just begun. We expect TBS to fight back now that they have been given a &#8220;letter of challenge&#8221;&#8230;.

 Ichiro Takatsuka

 Kusanagi Tsuyoshi is attracting attention for his first starring role in a terrestrial drama series in six years. The drama, "War of the Traps," drew attention for its ridiculing of Senator Yuko Obuchi...

Associated with &#8220;PC drill = Senator Yuko Obuchi&#8221;&#8230;Kantele&#8217;s &#8220;challenge&#8221; to TBS with Kusanagi Tsuyoshi&#8217;s &#8220;War of the Trap&#8221;.

Associated with “PC drill = Senator Yuko Obuchi”…Kantele’s “challenge” to TBS with Kusanagi Tsuyoshi’s “War of the Trap”.

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