Written by Tsuyoshi Egami, "The Black Company" stars Asuka Kudo, who is the first male lead. In the play, he joined a black-hearted company and faced the oppression of evil forces with a group of young people.
The protagonist, Mizuno Gota, has a dream of ** in his heart and has been living the life of a freelancer. However, the trick of fate caused the convenience store where he worked to suddenly close down and fall into trouble. One day, he stumbles into a newly opened burger restaurant and meets the president of the company, Katsuya Oseki (Shigemichi Hasamizu), who owns a Ferrari sports car. While tasting the burger, Mizuno inadvertently said, "It's okay!."It's just a little bit less punch. Unexpectedly, this sentence actually caught the attention of Ozeki, and he invited Mizuno to join their company and become a full-time employee.
Mizuno has always had a wish in his heart, which is to end his life as a freelancer and give his mother peace of mind. He often imagined that one day he would be able to drive a Ferrari on a wide road, just like Oshiki. So, he decided to take the entrance exam and take a solid step for his future.
When he arrives at the exam venue, a woman, Reiko Kikukawa (Megumi), catches his eye like a beautiful landscape. Her elegant demeanor and charming smile made Mizuno fall in love with her. However, when he walked into the exam room, he found that only him and Masaya Kisaragi (Amane Okayama) were taking the exam.
What surprised him even more was that the two of them passed without taking any exams. It made him feel a little incredible.
Although the two were very uneasy about passing the exam without having to take the exam, they signed the "contract" under the dreamy rhetoric of Ozeki. After that, they began to receive the devilish guidance of Takeo Inose (played by Fukasui Motoki) for three days and three nights, and instilled in them the company's philosophy and work matters with yelling and scolding. When they couldn't stand it anymore, Oguan again asked them to give up. In the end, they barely completed the training and were assigned to the same branch.
After officially coming to work at this branch, they found that Suio Mizo (played by Oue), who has always been smiling and welcoming and working hard, has always stayed in the store for the night, and when the performance is not good, they will be pressured by the president, and sometimes they will pay the salary of the part-time employees out of their own pockets. At this moment, Mizuno heard a rumor from Bi Ito (Moeka Hoshi), who works part-time, that this burger restaurant is actually a black-hearted company.
The protagonist of the play, Tsuyota Mizuno, is played by Asuka Kudo. I believe that everyone will not be unfamiliar with this who has participated in works such as "A Shallow is Coming", "The Woman Who Sold the House", "Miss Kanna", etc., right?He participated in "Tomorrow's Promise", and in the play he played Mao Inoue's boyfriend. As for the first starring role in this TV series, Kudo said that when he knew that the show was about a black-hearted company, he hoped to convey the feelings of people facing this situation.