Gibo to Musume no Blues

Miyamoto Ryoichi is a hard-working father, who has been raising his daughter alone since her mother’s death a few years prior. One day he gets married to a career woman named Iwaki Akiko. Though she struggles to win over the affection of young Miyamoto Miyuki, she continues to do her best as a stepmother and housewife so they can be a happy family…

It is the autumn of 2019, one year since Miyamoto Akiko (Ayase Haruka) re-entered the workforce. Her job is based in Osaka and she has been living in apart from her step daughter Miyuki (Kamishiraishi Moka) who is in Tokyo. Headhunted by a major consulting firm Acxel Business Partners, Akiko has been working energetically. She has achieved such remarkable results that the 10 years she devoted to raising Miyuki after her husband Ryoichi (Takenouchi Yutaka) passed away, is not a noticeable blank. Miyuki is now a lovely first-year university student who still does things at her own pace. She joined the university’s entrepreneurship club and continues to work part-time. Her relationship with childhood friend Kuroda Hiroki (Inowaki Kai) seems the same even though she rejected his feelings a year ago. One day, Akiko is suddenly fired and goes back to Tokyo. She visits Miyuki’s apartment only to see Mugita Akira (Sato Takeru), the owner of Bakery Mugita where Miyuki works part-time, come out topless from the bathroom with a towel wrapped around his waist. To make matters worse, a baby boy is clutched in his arms. Then Miyuki returns home. Akiko jumps to the conclusion that this baby is their child. Miyuki and Mugita deny it, leaving Akiko confused by this perplexing situation.

Iwaki Akiko is working for the company Golden Athletic, when she suddenly learns it faces a takeover and the proposal she has been working on to overhaul Goldic is completely halted. The new owner of this company, Iwaki Ryoji, is the head of a foreign fund and he bears a striking resemblance to her late husband Ryoichi. He also has plans to merge Bakery Mugita with a major bakery company. As the sales manager of Bakery Mugita, Akiko turns down this proposal, but she realizes she may have complicated feelings for Ryoji, not helped by the fact he reminds her so much of Ryoichi.

Adapted from the manga series “Gibo to Musume no Blues” (義母と娘のブルース) by Sakurazawa Rin (桜沢鈴).

The love story of a former career woman who tried hard to become a stepmother, her daughter who received the love, and the people who supported her family finally comes to an end. The final work depicts the new beginnings of two people who have supported each other through joys and sorrows.