Caster

Caster

Details

• Title: キャスター / Caster
• Format: Renzoku
• Genre: Workplace
• Episodes: 10
• Viewership ratings: 11.0%
• Broadcast network: TBS
• Broadcast period: 2025-Apr-13 to 2025-Jun-15
• Air time: Sunday 21:00
• Theme song: Damashiai by tuki.

Synopsis

The story centers at "News Gate", a news program that has been broadcasting on commercial TV station JBN for the past 40 years, but is currently suffering from low viewer ratings. To save the news program, the chairman of JBN recruited Shindo Soichi to become the main caster. Started his career as a reporter, Shindo Soichi is a man who does not care about rules and uses his own methods to conduct interviews and investigations to find the "truth". Sakikubo Hana is a variety hit maker and has been selected to be the news program's general director to leverage the program's success. Meanwhile, Motohashi Yusuke is an assistant director who has studied abroad to be a journalist. The story will continue showing how the relationship among the three change as they grow as a team, and how they eventually pursue the truth behind a certain incident.

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Cast

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JBN

News Program "News Gate"

• Abe Hiroshi as Shindo Soichi (Main Caster)
  • Baba Ritsuki (馬場律樹) as child Soichi
• Nagano Mei as Sakikubo Hana (General Director)
  • Isomura Ameri as child Hana
• Michieda Shunsuke as Motohashi Yusuke (Assistant Director)
• Tsukishiro Kanato as Koike Nami (Sub Caster)
• Otoo Takuma as Yamai Kazuyuki (Producer)
• Tamaoki Reo as Kajiwara Kodai (Director)
• Kim Moo Joon as Choi Jae Seong (Assistant Director)
• Kikuchi Akiko as Ando Erika (Local News Reporter)
• Okabe Takashi as Kaiba Koji (News Bureau Director)
• Miyazawa Emma as Ichinose Sakiko (Chief Editor)

Other people in JBN

• Takahashi Hideki as Kunisada Yoshio (Chairman)

Others

• Horikoshi Reika (堀越麗禾) as Yokoo Sumire (Soichi's daughter)
• Yamaguchi Makiya as Matsubara Tetsu (Soichi's father)
• Kurosawa Asuka as Sakikubo Yumi (Hana's mother)
• Kaji Masaki as Minami Ryohei (Weekly Magazine reporter)
• Kitaoji Kinya as Hanyu Tsuyoshi (Cabinet secretariat)
• Uchimura Haruka as Hanyu Shinichi (Tsuyoshi's son-cum-secretary)
• Tanida Ayumi as Ozaki Masataka (Consulting firm president)

Guests

• Ueno Takahiro (上野隆博) as Tanabe Masaki (ep1)
• Kojima Kazufumi (小嶋一富観) as Aihara Takumi (ep1)
• Harada Natsuki as Takumi's mother (ep1)
• Kuroda Daisuke as Nagasaki Kohei (ep1)
• Hirukawa Kaori (比留川香) as head nurse (ep1)
• Yokota Takuya (横田拓也) as researcher (ep1)
• Takasaki Shungo (髙﨑俊吾) as detective (ep1-2)
• Miyadate Ryota as Konoike (ep1-2)
• Suzuki Takayuki as Nawa Wataru (ep1-2)
  • Ishikawa Manahiro as teen Wataru (ep2)
• Suzuki Reisa as Sakikubo Sara (ep1,6)
• Mikata Ryosuke as Imai Kazuhiko (ep2)
  • Karaki Shunsuke as teen Kazuhiko (ep2)
• Ueta Tatsuya (植田辰哉) as volleyball team director (ep2)
• Miyakawa Ichirota as Nishina Yasuyuki (ep2)
• Okui Shuji (オクイシュージ) as Sagawa Katsu (ep2)
• Non as Shinomiya Kaede (ep3)
• Inowaki Kai as Kuribayashi Makoto (ep3)
• Riju Go as Kosaka Shoichi (ep3)
• Hanafusa Mari (花總まり) as Onodera Motoko (ep3)
• Yamada Atsuhiko (山田敦彦) as ramen store owner (ep3)
• Takahashi Tsutomu as Haga Hiromichi (ep4)
• Mabuchi Erika as Kaiba Chie (ep4)
• Takeshita Yuna (竹下優名) as Kaiba Akari (ep4)
  • Sato Emiri (佐藤笑璃) as child Akari (ep4)
• Yamanaka Takashi as Kawashima Keisuke (ep4)
• Aitsuki Akiko as Yokoo Kyoko (ep4)
• Shitao Miu (下尾みう) as Miyano Yuki (ep4)
• Kitagawa Shun (北川駿) as Yoshiki Yuya (ep4)
• Onozuka Shogo (小野塚渉悟) as Saito Tsuyoshi (ep4)
• Ogawa Tamaki as Takeno Yukiko (ep5)
• Tezuka Toru as Murasaki Yoshinobu (ep5)
• Yasui Junpei as Komai Tetsushi (ep5)
• Maeda Aki as Fukagawa Mitsue (ep5)
• Takatsuru Momoha (高鶴桃羽) as Sano Chiaki (ep5)
• Honda Takeyuki (本多剛幸) as Ohki Kota (ep5)
• Nakamura Anne as Fujii Mayumi (ep6-7)
• Sato Renwa as Fujii Yukino (ep6-7)
• Niiro Shinya as Fukazawa Takeshi (ep6-7)
• Saito Maiko (斉藤麻衣子) as publishing company employee (ep7)
• Mishima Yutaka as information broker (ep7)
• Yamazaki Nina (山崎丹奈) as nurse (ep7)
• Motoki Sachiyo (本木幸世) as nurse (ep7)
• Yamashita Takuro (山下タクロウ) as delivery staff (ep7)
• Yuki Chihiro (優木千央) teacher (ep7)
• Otaka Akira as Tsunoda Shoichi (ep8)
• Kosuda Yasuto as Anzai Kohei (ep8)
• Tamai Ran as weather caster (ep8)
• Anada Yuri (穴田有里) as nursing home employee (ep8)
• Kazuki Haru (香月ハル) as nursing home employee (ep8)
• Akashi Mariko (赤司まり子) as elderly woman (ep8)
• Tanihata Satoshi (谷畑聡) as firefighter (ep8)
• Shibu Asuka (志武明日香) as Hamasaki Mone (ep8)
• Yonemura Hiroaki (米村拓彰) as doctor (ep8)
• Matsuo Satoru as Ikeuchi Kuniaki (ep8-9)
• Ishibashi Renji as Kageyama Hidetsugu (ep8-10)
• Yamamoto Gaku as Yamai Kazuo (ep8-10)
• Inoue Hajime as Egami Yasuo (ep8-10)
• Natsuko as Egami Mai (ep8-10)
• Kakuhin (カクヒン) as Li (ep9)
• Asahina Ryusei (朝比奈竜生) as reception staff (ep9)
• Shokida Tomoya (諸喜田智也) as police officer (ep9)
• Narumi Mio (成海澪) as police officer (ep9)
• Yamashita Tokuhisa (山下徳久) as reporter 43 years ago (ep9)
• Horiuchi Mitsuharu (堀内充治) as reporter 43 years ago (ep9)
• Teranishi Takuto as mysterious man (ep10)
• Ujiie Megumi as nurse (ep10)
• Asai Kosuke (浅井浩介) as reporter (ep10)
• Matsubara Koji (松原耕二) as "Hodo HEADLINE" caster (ep10)

Production Credits

• Screenwriter: Tsuchiya Ken, Oikawa Mami, Lee Jeong Mi, Tani Aoto, Moriguchi Yusuke, Kitaura Katsuhiro (北浦勝大)
• Producer: Iyoda Hidenori, Sekikawa Yuri, Sakuma Koji
• Director: Kato Akiko, Kanai Hiro
• Music: Kimura Hideakira

Episode Information

Episode	Date	Ratings
1	2025-Apr-13	14.2%
2	2025-Apr-20	11.7%
3	2025-Apr-27	10.9%
4	2025-May-04	10.4%
5	2025-May-11	10.8%
6	2025-May-18	10.2%
7	2025-May-25

Source: Video Research Ltd.

External Links

• Official site
• Japanese Wikipedia

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