Sekai de Ichiban Papa ga Suki: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

The protagonist is a 41-year-old divorced lawyer. 13 years ago, his wife's infidelity led him to abandon his then 5-year-old daughter and leave home. This summer, his wife departed to heaven. The daughter still hates his father, and wants to enter a Tokyo university so she needn't have to live with him... This is a story of how two people even as they fight each other also gradually come to understand each other. How the father thinks of his daughter, how the daughter thinks of her father, and other faint awakenings of love: This begins the "love story" between parent and child.

Series details

• Title: Sekai de Ichiban Papa ga Suki
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Family
• Premiere date: 1998-07-08
• Final broadcast date listed: 1998-09-23
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: Fuji TV
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 37511

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1998-07-08; final listed air date 1998-09-23.

Source and licence

Adapted from Sekai de Ichiban Papa ga Suki on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.