"Modelpress Best Drama Award" Ceremony Held: Ryoma Takeuchi, Kyoko Yoshine, Kyoya Honda, Takeru Satoh and Other Gorgeous Winners Who Colored the 2025 Drama World Gather

Netnative Inc. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, President: Yoshinori Matsushita), which operates Japan's largest entertainment & lifestyle news site for women, "Modelpress", held the "Modelpress Best Drama Award" ceremony in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 18, 2026. In 2025, "Modelpress" brought together the passion and know-how cultivated in the reader-participatory project "Modelpress Ranking" to create the "Modelpress Best Drama Award", a new indicator for the drama world. This award is an unprecedented attempt to determine the annual "Best Drama" across all platforms, not only terrestrial television but also streaming and even the rapidly expanding short dramas. At the ceremony, gorgeous award winners who colored the drama world in 2025, including Ryoma Takeuchi, Kyoko Yoshine, Kyoya Honda, and Takeru Satoh, gathered. They talked about their thoughts on the works and valuable behind-the-scenes production stories that can only be heard here. ◆List of Speakers (Winners / Award-winning works) [Best Actor in a Leading Role 1st Place] Ryoma Takeuchi / TBS "Then You Try Making It!" Ayaka Sugita (Producer), Izumi Maruyama (Producer), Yoshihiro Ito (Director) [Best Actress in a Leading Role 1st Place] Kyoko Yoshine / Fuji TV "Calm Waves, A Couple's Fine Day" [Best Actor in a Supporting Role 1st Place] Kyoya Honda / Fuji TV "Calm Waves, A Couple's Fine Day" [Best Actress in a Supporting Role 1st Place] Nana Mori / NHK "Hirayasumi" *Video message appearance / Substitute on stage: Aki Otsuka, Producer [Best Producing 1st Place] Netflix "Glass Heart" Makiko Okano (Executive Producer), Takeru Satoh (Lead Actor and Co-Executive Producer), Go Abe (Producer), Hiroshi Sakurai (Line Producer) [Best Directing 1st Place] TBS "The Royal Family" Ayuko Tsukahara (Director) [Best Drama 1st Place] Fuji TV "Calm Waves, A Couple's Fine Day" Hana Song (Producer) [[Strongest Content Award] "Addictive Short Drama You Can't Stop Watching" Category] - FOD SHORT "The Sin of Oshi ~The Only One Who Can Save Oshi is Me, an Otaku~" Toshio Arai (Producer) - TV Tokyo / DMM Short "5 Ways to Socially Destroy My Husband Re:venge" Yudai Kurachi (Producer), Honoka Inoue (Producer) - DMM Short "#SecretAccountTeacher" Anna Kobayashi (Producer), Miko Terada (Screenwriter) [MC] Ken Ayugai, Akane Takiyama ◆ Excerpts and comments from the "Modelpress Best Drama Award Ceremony" Ryoma Takeuchi (Best Actor in a Leading Role 1st Place) "I'm happy. As a result of working seriously with the 'Then You Try Making It!' team in the heat of summer, I am very happy to be commended in such a good way. I think I'm glad I worked hard." Kyoko Yoshine (Best Actress in a Leading Role 1st Place) "Thank you very much for this wonderful award. With the work that everyone poured their love into last spring, being able to rejoice with everyone again this spring saying 'I'm glad,' is exactly a 'calm waves' feeling." Furthermore, Modelpress has posted the comments of each speaker in the "Modelpress Best Drama Award Ceremony" article. [Modelpress Best Drama Award Ceremony] URL: https://mdpr.jp/drama/4747855 ◆ What is the "Modelpress Best Drama Award"? The annual "Best Drama" is selected regardless of terrestrial broadcasting, streaming, or short drama, based on reader votes, votes from 60 influencers familiar with dramas, and votes from 20 editorial department members, and announced in a ranking format. In addition to over 110,000 votes, the total number of X impressions is 45.47 million, and the cumulative number of video views is 13 million, making it a project that has received a very large response. Voting period: Monday, November 17, 2025 - Monday, December 15, 2025 Result announcement: Thursday, December 25, 2025 Number of responses: 117,309 (Gender ratio: 93% female, 3% male, 4% no response) [Related URLs] Announcement post: https://x.com/modelpress/status/2004099796991385927 └In the quote of this post, a list of rankings for each category is also posted List of rankings for all 20 categories: https://mdpr.jp/drama/detail/4700653 Article list: https://mdpr.jp/tag/52814 Special site: https://mdpr.jp/bestdramaaward ◆Modelpress Ranking "Modelpress", which has over 3.8 million total followers on SNS, announces rankings and questionnaire results related to various entertainment and lifestyles, referring to persuasive voices gathered from readers in WEB questionnaires, taking into account the screening by the Modelpress editorial department and the number of article exposures within "Modelpress"...