Author Ashihara Hinako has died at the age of 50, her body was found in a suburb of Tokyo (Japan). Japanese media reported that the police are treating the case as a suicide. Authorities found a suicide note at the author's home.
Ashihara is the author of the manga series Sexy Tanaka-san . NTV (Japan) has aired a 10-episode drama of the same name adapted from Ashihara's manga series Sexy Tanaka-san . The drama stars live-action and will begin airing in October 2023. Actress Kinami Haruka plays the female lead.
The film revolves around a 40-year-old female accountant whose day and night life are completely opposite. During the day, she works as an accountant, a very ordinary woman, nothing special. But at night, she becomes a hot belly dancer.
NTV (Japan) has broadcast a 10-episode drama adapted from the manga "Sexy Tanaka-san" by author Ashihara (Photo: Variety).
When the female protagonist's nightlife is accidentally discovered by a colleague, the middle-aged woman's life suddenly changes. The two extremes in her life begin to merge and create interesting unexpected mutations.
Although the film was successfully adapted and received good feedback from the Japanese public, author Ashihara was not satisfied. In early January, she used social media and her personal blog to criticize the way the work was adapted. Ashihara said that the film was not faithful to the original, while the original commitment was that the film must be absolutely faithful to the original work.
Immediately after posting these criticisms, the female author Ashihara deleted the above content and quickly apologized: "I had no intention of attacking anyone. I apologize." The apology was posted on Sunday afternoon (January 28).
Shortly after, relatives and colleagues were unable to contact Ashihara. On Monday this week (January 29), Ashihara was found dead at his home.
Female author Ashihara is known for several manga series such as Forbidden Dance , Bitter - Nakechau Koi Monogatari , Yubikiri and Girls Lesson .
In fact, during the writing process of the TV series Sexy Tanaka-san , female author Ashihara had some reactions to the screenwriter of the series. She thought that the script had strayed too far from the original. Ashihara was assigned to write the script for the last two episodes. All 10 episodes attracted a large number of viewers.
The film revolves around a 40-year-old female accountant whose day and night life are completely opposite (Photo: Variety).
After the final episode of the series aired in December 2023, the screenwriter in charge of the first 8 episodes - Aizawa Tomoko - used social media to explain why the script suddenly had many strange features in the last 2 episodes. Although not mentioning the author Ashihara by name, screenwriter Aizawa made the public understand that there were disagreements during the script development process.
Immediately, the online community was divided. There were people who defended the screenwriter, saying that the author was too strict and perfectionist. But there were also people who said that screenwriter Aizawa had actually created a different scenario from the original.
Since the news of author Ashihara's death was published by Japanese media, the Japanese online community has been arguing fiercely.
Many people criticized NTV for not supporting author Ashihara effectively, causing her to fall into a state of psychological crisis due to disagreements that occurred during the adaptation process. Currently, author Ashihara's family has refused to comment on the tragic incident that just occurred.
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