Why Kentaro Sakaguchi’s lines in NHK’s “Welcome Back Monet” will win the hearts of women

Dr. Kotaro Suganami, the clumsy science guy who appears in the NHK TV series “Welcome Back Monet,” is more popular than I imagined. Dr. Suganami is a part-time doctor at the forest cooperative where the main character, Monet, works, and he helps Monet become a meteorologist. They start to become aware of each other, but neither of them is very good at romance, so it is difficult for them to make progress.

However, in the episode broadcast on September 3, things took a sudden turn. When Monet became very upset at Suganami’s words about leaving Tokyo and moving to Tome, Suganami suddenly changed his tone from respectful to “What’s wrong? What’s wrong? On SNS, people were saying, “What’s wrong with the gun? It’s not Monet, it’s another Monet! The crowd went wild with excitement. The term “our Suganami” has even been coined, and it’s becoming a social phenomenon.

The actor playing the role of Suganami is none other than Kentaro Sakaguchi (30), the original salt-faced boy. To tell the truth, Sakaguchi has a surprisingly large number of fans in the industry. Even for writers who have covered many handsome actors and are immune to handsome men, he seems to have a special place in their hearts, so much so that many of them ask their editors, “Whenever you have an interview with Sakaguchi-kun, make sure to offer it to me.

He proudly states, “My sensibility is interesting.

I was curious to know what these writers who are fans of Sakaguchi thought of the current Suganami boom, so I asked them about it. I asked them what they thought of the current Suganami boom, and they all agreed that Suganami and the real Kentaro Sakaguchi are very similar in a way. What do they mean by that?　I would like to explain in detail.

“Mr. Suganami may seem cold, but he doesn’t flatter people at all. He only says what he really thinks, which gives the impression of sincerity. My impression of Mr. Sakaguchi from the interview was the same, minus the bluntness of Dr. Suganami.

About six months after my first interview with him, I had another chance to interview him. At that time, he remembered me and bowed to me, saying, “Oh, you were at …… before. There are many celebrities who flatter you on the spot, but there are few who remember a writer they’ve met just once the next time they meet. In my experience, it’s only Mr. Sakaguchi and Jun Tamura of Rombou (laughs).

(laughs) Mr. Tamura gave me the impression that he remembered the person he was talking to in order to survive, but Mr. Sakaguchi just remembered me and greeted me, nothing more and nothing less. I was convinced by his simple sincerity that he would definitely sell! (laughs)” (magazine writer)

I also heard the following complimentary comments.

“Mr. Sakaguchi is active as a model and actor. So when I interviewed him, I asked him if there was anything else he wanted to do in the future. This is what he told me. I was told by an editor that Kentaro has an interesting sensibility, so I think he should try writing. I’m interested in writing myself, so I’d like to try writing something.

What I found interesting was that he unabashedly said, “People say that my sensibility is interesting. In fact, he has a unique view of the world and a sense of atmosphere, and I think he meant what the editor said, but normally he wouldn’t say “I’ve been told I’m interesting” so openly because it might seem like he was bragging. But he was smiling, happy, and innocently talking about it. I felt that he was really a person with no calculation, and no matter what he said, he was always sarcastic.

(Women’s magazine writer) “The term ‘salt face’ also means a simple face, and I was convinced that her sarcastic personality is what gives her that simple atmosphere.

No matter how much the “Our Suganami” fever rises, or how much his own popularity explodes, Kentaro Sakaguchi will probably remain the same.