Winners of the Confidence Award Drama Prize - Annual Awards 2018

Best Drama: Ossans Love

Best Leading Actor: Yamada Takayuki & Suda Masaki (dele)

Best Leading Actress: Ishihara Satomi (Unnatural)

Best Supporting Actor: Sato Takeru (Hanbun, Aoi / Gibo to Musume no Blues)

Best Supporting Actress: Tanaka Yuko (anone)

Best Newcomer: Kiyohara Kaya (Toumei na Yurikago)

Best Script: Nogi Akiko (Unnatural)

Source: Oricon

The 96th Drama Academy Awards (Winter 2018) - Best Drama

Overall Ranking Top 3
1) Unnatural (TBS)
2) 99.9 Keiji Senmon Bengoshi Season II (TBS)
3) Warotenka (NHK)

Voters Ranking Top 5
1) 99.9 Keiji Senmon Bengoshi Season II (TBS)
2) Unnatural (TBS)
3) Momikeshite Fuyu ~ Wagaya no mondai nakatta koto ni ~ (NTV)
4) Kuragehime (FujiTV)
5) BG ~ Shinpen Keigonin ~ (TV Asahi)

TV Reporters Ranking Top 5
1) Unnatural (TBS)
2) 99.9 Keiji Senmon Bengoshi Season II (TBS)
3) anone (NTV)
4) Warotenka (NHK)
5) Tonari no kazoku wa aoku mieru (FujiTV)

Judges Ranking Top 5
1) Unnatural (TBS)
2) 99.9 Keiji Senmon Bengoshi Season II (TBS)
3) Warotenka (NHK)
4) anone (NTV)
5) BG ~ Shinpen Keigonin ~ (TV Asahi)

Source: The Television

The 96th Drama Academy Awards (Winter 2018) - Best Leading Actress

Overall Ranking Top 3
1) Ishihara Satomi - Unnatural
2) Hirose Suzu - anone
3) Fukada Kyoko - Tonari no kazoku wa aoku mieru

Voters Ranking Top 5
1) Ishihara Satomi - Unnatural
2) Ayase Haruka - Seirei no Moribito ~ Saishusho ~
3) Fukada Kyoko - Tonari no kazoku wa aoku mieru
4) Yoshine Kyoko - Kuragehime
5) Aoi Wakana - Warotenka

TV Reporters Ranking Top 5
1) Ishihara Satomi - Unnatural
2) Hirose Suzu - anone
3) Fukada Kyoko - Tonari no kazoku wa aoku mieru
4) Yoshine Kyoko - Kuragehime / Yoshioka Riho - Kimi ga kokoro ni sumitsuita

Judges Ranking Top 5
1) Ishihara Satomi - Unnatural
2) Aoi Wakana - Warotenka
3) Hirose Suzu - anone / Fukada Kyoko - Tonari no kazoku wa aoku mieru / Yoshine Kyoko - Kuragehime

Source: The Television

The 96th Drama Academy Awards (Winter 2018) - Best Supporting Actress

Overall Ranking Top 3
1) Kimura Fumino - 99.9 Keiji Senmon Bengoshi Season II
2) Tanaka Yuko - anone
3) Kadowaki Mugi - Todome no Kiss

Voters Ranking Top 5
1) Kimura Fumino - 99.9 Keiji Senmon Bengoshi Season II
2) Ichikawa Mikako - Unnatural
3) Haru - Momikeshite Fuyu ~ Wagaya no mondai nakatta koto ni ~
4) Kadowaki Mugi - Todome no Kiss
5) Babazono Azusa - 99.9 Keiji Senmon Bengoshi Season II

TV Reporters Ranking Top 5
1) Tanaka Yuko - anone
2) Ichikawa Mikako - Unnatural
3) Kadowaki Mugi - Todome no Kiss
4) Hirose Arisu - Warotenka
5) Haru - Momikeshite Fuyu ~ Wagaya no mondai nakatta koto ni ~

Judges Ranking Top 5
1) Tanaka Yuko - anone
2) Kadowaki Mugi - Todome no Kiss
3) Hirose Arisu - Warotenka / Haru - Momikeshite Fuyu ~ Wagaya no mondai nakatta koto ni ~ / Kimura Fumino - 99.9 Keiji Senmon Bengoshi Season II

Source: The Televison

Winners of the 11th Confidence Award Drama Prize (Winter 2018)

Here are the winners of the 11th Confidence Award Drama Prize for the Winter 2018 season:

Best Drama: Unnatural

Best Leading Actor: Shison Jun (Joshiteki Seikatsu)

Best Leading Actress: Ishihara Satomi (Unnatural)

Best Supporting Actor: Iura Arata (Unnatural)

Best Supporting Actress: Tanaka Yuko (anone)

Best Script: Nogi Akiko (Unnatural)

Best Newcomer: Shimizu Hiroya (anone)

Source: Confidence Award Drama Prize

Winners of Nikkansports Dorama Grand Prix (Winter 2018)

There were 2,144 valid votes for this round of voting between 8th and 15th March where the top 5 for each category in each season would then be eligible as nominees for the annual awards.The numbers in brackets indicate the number of votes received for the drama and/or actor/actress:

Preview of "anone" - Winter 2018

Title: anone あのね
Official website: here
Official Instagram: here
Official LINE: here
Official Twitter: here
O.A. Start Date: 10 January 2018
Timeslot: Wednesdays 10pm
Broadcast by: NTV
Scriptwriter: Sakamoto Yuji
Cast: Hirose Suzu, Kobayashi Satomi, Abe Sadao, Eita, Hino Shohei & Tanaka Yuko

Supporting cast line-up of NTV Winter 2018 drama "anone" announced

The supporting cast line-up of NTV Winter 2018 drama "anone" starring Hirose Suzu and Tanaka Yuko was announced. In this drama written by Sakamoto Yuji, Hirose plays the role of a 19-year-old girl Tsujisawa Harikawhose family members had died and is living in solitude without being noticed by everyone after she is isolated from her parents due to a past incident. Being in financial difficulty, she can only move around with her skateboard and stays overnight at an Internet cafe. She then bumps into an elderly woman named Hayashida Anone played by Tanaka Yuko who works at a law firm and invites her to live together at her house. The two of them who have lost faith in people, then hatch a plan to deceive the world. In order to prepare for the filming, Hirose has already started learning how to ride on the skateboard. and cut her hair by more than 10cm on the following day after she was announced to be the heroine for the 2019 drama "Natsuzora" on 21 November.

Hirose Suzu to star in new NTV Winter 2018 drama "anone"

Hirose Suzu will be starring in the new NTV Winter 2018 drama "anone" which will be shown from January in the Wednesdays 10pm timeslot and is her last leading role in a drama in her teens. The drama's script will be written by Sakamoto Yuji and directed by Mizuta Nobuo and has the theme of asking the viewers what it means to live.