Toto Nee-Chan: Fatherly Sister: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Kohashi Tsuneko lost her father to tuberculosis when she was 11-years-old. Taking her father's teachings about the importance of ordinary life to heart, she becomes Toto Nee-Chan, a paternal figure to her mother and her two younger sisters. Even though she struggles to provide for the family as the head of the household, she is determined to find a job that allows her to feed them and make a statement for women. When the war is finally over, she launches a lifestyle magazine 'Your Life' for the sake of females with her two sisters. With the help of the like-minded, genius editor Hanayama Isaji, the magazine grows to become essential to females living in the period of high economic growth.

Series details

• Title: Toto Nee-Chan: Fatherly Sister
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama, Family
• Premiere date: 2016-04-04
• Final broadcast date listed: 2016-10-01
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: NHK
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 15 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 15143
• TVDB ID: 309505

Cast and credited roles

• Takahata Mitsuki — Tsuneko Kohashi

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2016-04-04; final listed air date 2016-10-01; episode order: 156.

Source and licence

Adapted from Toto Nee-Chan: Fatherly Sister 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.