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

Netnative Inc. (Headquarters: Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, President and CEO: Yoshinori Matsushita), which operates Japan's largest entertainment & lifestyle news site for women, "Modelpress", held the "Modelpress Best Drama Awards" ceremony in Tokyo on Wednesday, March 18, 2026.

In 2025, "Modelpress" consolidated the enthusiasm and know-how cultivated through its reader-participatory project "Modelpress Ranking" to establish the "Modelpress Best Drama Awards," which will serve as a new indicator in the drama world. This award is an unprecedented attempt to determine the "Best Drama" of the year across all platforms, including not only terrestrial television but also streaming services and the rapidly expanding short dramas.

The award ceremony brought together gorgeous award winners who colored the drama world in 2025, including Ryoma Takeuchi, Kyoko Yoshine, Kyoya Honda, and Takeru Satoh. They spoke about their feelings toward the works and shared valuable production secrets that can only be heard here.

◆ List of Speakers (Winners / Winning Works)

[Leading Actor Category 1st Place]

Ryoma Takeuchi / TBS "Jaa, Anta ga Tsukutte Miroyo" (Then You Try Making It)

<Celebration Guests>

Ayaka Sugita (Producer), Izumi Maruyama (Producer), Yoshihiro Ito (Director)

[Leading Actress Category 1st Place]

Kyoko Yoshine / Fuji TV "Nami Uraraka ni, Meoto Biyori" (A Calm Wave, A Fine Day for a Married Couple)

[Supporting Actor Category 1st Place]

Kyoya Honda / Fuji TV "Nami Uraraka ni, Meoto Biyori"

[Supporting Actress Category 1st Place]

Nana Mori / NHK "Hirayasumi"

*Video message appearance / Proxy speaker: Aki Otsuka, Producer

[Produce Category 1st Place]

Netflix "Glass Heart"

Makiko Okano (Executive Producer), Takeru Satoh (Lead Actor and Co-Executive Producer), Go Abe (Producer), Hiroshi Sakurai (Line Producer)

[Directing Category 1st Place]

TBS "The Royal Family"

Ayuko Tsukahara (Director)

[Best Drama Category 1st Place]

Fuji TV "Nami Uraraka ni, Meoto Biyori"

Hana Song (Producer)

[[Strongest Content Award] "Addictive Short Dramas You Can't Stop Watching" Category]

- FOD SHORT "Oshi no Tsumi ~Oshi wo Sukueru no wa Otaku no Watashi~" (The Idol's Sin ~The Only One Who Can Save My Idol is Me, an Otaku~)

Toshio Arai (Producer)

- TV Tokyo / DMM Short "Otto wo Shakaiteki ni Massatsu suru 5-tsu no Houhou Re:venge" (5 Ways to Socially Eradicate My Husband Re:venge)

Yudai Kurachi (Producer), Honoka Inoue (Producer)

- DMM Short "#Ura Aka Kyoushi" (#Secret Account Teacher)

Anna Kobayashi (Producer), Miko Terada (Screenwriter)

[MC]

Ken Ayugai, Akane Takiyama

◆ Excerpts and Comments from the "Modelpress Best Drama Awards Ceremony"

Ryoma Takeuchi (Leading Actor Category 1st Place)

"I'm happy. As a result of the 'Jaa, Anta ga Tsukutte Miroyo' team working earnestly in the summer heat, I am extremely glad to be recognized in such a wonderful way. I feel that my hard work paid off."

Kyoko Yoshine (Leading Actress Category 1st Place)

"Thank you so much for this wonderful award. With this work that we all poured our love into last spring, to be able to rejoice together like this again the following spring makes me feel truly 'Nami Uraraka' (calm and peaceful)."

Furthermore, Modelpress has published the comments of each speaker in the "Modelpress Best Drama Awards Ceremony" article.

[Modelpress Best Drama Awards Ceremony] URL:  https://mdpr.jp/drama/4747855

◆ About the "Modelpress Best Drama Awards"

The "Best Drama" of the year, regardless of whether it is a terrestrial, streaming, or short drama, is selected 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 was 45.47 million, and the cumulative number of video views was 13 million, making it a project that has received a tremendous response.

Voting Period: November 17, 2025 (Monday) - December 15, 2025 (Monday) Results Announcement: December 25, 2025 (Thursday) 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 quotes of this post, a list of ranking posts for each category is also posted

Ranking list 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

An original project where "Modelpress", which has over 3.8 million total SNS followers, announces rankings and survey results related to various entertainment and lifestyles. It refers to the persuasive voices gathered from readers through web surveys, taking into account the reviews of the Modelpress editorial department and the number of article exposures within "Modelpress". Rankings announced so far include the "Modelpress Buzzword Awards".

◆ About Modelpress

https://mdpr.jp/

Japan's largest entertainment & lifestyle news reporting media for women, conducting its own reporting, photography, news coverage, and interviews as "a media that empowers people." With a total of 3.8 million SNS followers, 165 million page views per month, 1.2 billion social impressions per month, and approximately 24 million monthly readers (UU). Generation Z women to women in their 40s are the main demographic. News is also distributed to major platforms such as Yahoo! News and LINE NEWS.

Survey project series centered on "empowering people," such as the "Modelpress Buzzword Awards" and "Modelpress Best Entertainment Awards," have become a huge topic. In addition to the casting and audition business, the company is also in charge of planning original programs for LINE Yahoo Corporation, producing and planning programs for ABEMA, and planning programs for TV Osaka.