With the late Haruma Miura, the late Sei Ashina, and the late Takashi Fujiki appearing, co-produced by Toho and TBS, Season 1 in 2008 and Season 2 in 2010…
Also, I forget whether it was Season 1 or Season 2, but in the final episode they kept cramming in commercials and dragging things out, and in the inserted footage where the sponsors were displayed as a telop (an eye-catch bumper?), they kept, relentlessly, repeatedly running footage of North Korean missiles flying and falling, and if you include the next-episode preview at the end of the previous episode I probably saw it more than three times, but after all that weird heavy-handed hinting, in the end there was absolutely no such development, not even close, and I remember as a kid thinking “What is this?” and being exasperated. In the drama, regarding North Korea, perhaps because they obviously couldn’t name a specific country, they consistently used the blurred expression “ano kuni,” meaning “that country,” all the way through, but of course it was an expression that made it perfectly clear to viewers that they meant North Korea. A little before the final episode, there was a development where it became clear that, amid a state-subversion terror attack used as a diversion, “that country” would carry out an amphibious landing and invasion to conquer Japan. I also learned about the Soviet-developed “Tsar Bomba,” the most powerful hydrogen bomb in history, from Bloody Monday. They searched containers at a port and found a hydrogen bomb, but it turned out to be a dummy, just a fuel-air bomb or something—anyway, there were a whole lot of stupid, cartoony developments. Later, after I had consumed a lot of more hard-core content, I would often think, when I was little, how could I calmly watch such a stupid, cartoony worldview work like something called Bloody Monday, and the very fact that I watched it turned into a black mark in my personal history. My memory is hazy, but Season 2 had a neutron bomb as its theme. The footage of many people dying in a Russian church was scary. As for the episode where they attempt to defuse a small suitcase nuke on a passenger plane,…
This case is part of the Mandela Effect case database based on "The Window of Opportunity: A Guidepost to the Mandela Effect — The Ultra-Secret X-Files" by Aoyama Takuto.