Himawari is an unsuccessful 39-year-old enka singer who has bad luck with men and money. Born into an Osaka takoyaki shop, the young Himawari was inspired by her father's words to immerse herself in enka. At the age of 13 her father disappears and her mother, bitter over the husband that left her, remarries--but Himawari has trouble adjusting to a new father and brother. With her father's words in her head--"You're the #1 singer in all of Japan!"--Himawari immediately heads to Tokyo after high school and makes her debut as an enka singer.


Cast
* Amami Yuki as Ookochi Himawari
* Harada Taizo as Tamaru Hitoshi
* Sakai Wakana as Ichijo Masami
* Narumi Riko as Gomi Sadako
* Kikawada Masaya as Nobutomo Katsuya
* Hirayama Hiroyuki as Yazawa (bento shop manager)
* Takei Akashi as Hanada Shin
* Takahata Atsuko as Nobutomo Hoshie
* Hankai Kazuaki as Shida
* Fukuda Mayuko as Nobutomo Sachiko
* Nukumizu Youichi as Nukumizu Keiji
* Danta Yasunori as Hagimoto Jiro
* Ikeuchi Junko as Tamaru Michiyo
* Hada Michiko as Koda (Hitoshi's high school classmate) (ep1)
* Nishiyama Mayuko as Hanada Kyoko (Shin's mother) (ep2,9)
* Murai Katsuyuki as Hanada Ryoichi (ep2,9)
* Okouchi Hiroshi (ep3)
* Sasaki Hikari (ep3,10)
* Itoh Sairi (ep3,10)
* Yanagita Erika (ep3,10)
* Oshikawa Daisuke (ep3,10)
* Kitou Utano (ep3,10)
* Kajiwara Hikari (ep3,10)
* Kakuike Erina (ep3,10)
* Takasugi Mizuho as Sachiko's stepfather (ep4,5)
* Matsukawa Naruki (ep5)
* George Yamamoto as himself (ep6)
* Haba Yuichi (ep6)
* Yajima Kenichi (ep7)
* Nakajima Hiroko (ep7)
* Nishioka Tokuma (ep9)
* Kamata Atsushi (ep10)
* Yanagiya Yuka (ep10)
* Shigatani Yui (ep10)