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Kōetsu Girl: Kouno Etsuko (地味にスゴイ！校閲ガール・河野悦子) is a 2016 NTV Japanese workplace drama starring Satomi Ishihara, adapted from Ayako Miyagi's Kōetsu Girl novels, about a fashion lover assigned to a publisher's proofreading department; it averaged double-digit Kanto ratings.", "snippet": "Jimi ni Sugoi! Kōetsu Girl: Kouno Etsuko (地味にスゴイ！校閲ガール・河野悦子) is a 2016 NTV Japanese workplace drama starring Satomi Ishihara, adapted from Ayako Miyagi's Kōetsu Girl novels, about a fashion lover assigned to a publisher's proofreading department; it averaged double-digit Kanto ratings.", "node": "culture.performance.screen.series.series_int_serials_east_asia.japanese_contemporary_drama", "markdown": "# Jimi ni Sugoi! Kōetsu Girl: Kouno Etsuko (校閲ガール)\n\n**Jimi ni Sugoi! Kōetsu Girl: Kouno Etsuko** (地味にスゴイ！校閲ガール・河野悦子, \"Unremarkably Amazing! Proofreading Girl: Kouno Etsuko\") is a Japanese television workplace drama broadcast by Nippon Television (NTV) in 2016, starring [Satomi Ishihara](https://www.edgepedia.org/satomi-ishihara) (石原さとみ) as a fashion-loving young woman assigned to a publisher's proofreading department instead of the fashion magazine job she wants.[1](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/cast/index.html) It adapts Ayako Miyagi's (宮木あや子) novel series *Kōetsu Girl* (校閲ガール), published by KADOKAWA in the Kadokawa Bunko imprint.[1](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/cast/index.html)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Broadcast | NTV, Wednesdays at 10:00 pm, 5 October to 7 December 2016, 10 episodes[2](https://www.nikkansports.com/m/entertainment/news/amp/1748651.html) |\n| Lead cast | Satomi Ishihara as Kouno Etsuko; Masaki Suda (菅田将暉) as Orihara Yukito; Tsubasa Honda (本田翼) as Morio Toyoko[1](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/cast/index.html) |\n| Original work | *Kōetsu Girl* series by Ayako Miyagi, KADOKAWA / Kadokawa Bunko[1](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/cast/index.html) |\n| Ratings | Final episode 12.3% in the Kanto region (Video Research); double-digit average across all 10 episodes[3](https://realsound.jp/movie/2016/12/post-3439.html) |\n| Follow-up | Special drama *Jimi ni Sugoi! DX: Kōetsu Girl: Kouno Etsuko* announced for autumn 2017[4](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/) |\n| Theme song | \"Heaven's Door ~陽のあたる場所~\" by Chise Niina (栞菜智世)[4](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/) |\n| Streaming | Exclusive to Hulu in Japan, including the special and a Hulu original version[5](https://entame.netoff.co.jp/kouetsu-girl-streaming/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Premise\n\nKouno Etsuko loves fashion and has taken the employment exam of the major publisher Keihansha (景凡社) year after year, hoping to join the editorial department of the fashion magazine *Lassy*. When she is finally hired, she is assigned instead to the proofreading department (校閲部), the section that checks manuscripts for misspellings, missing characters, errors, and inconsistencies in content before printing.[6](https://jdramas.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/jimi-ni-sugoi-kouetsu-girl-kouno-etsuko/)\n\nThe NTV introduction defines proofreading (校閲, kōetsu) as the work of examining documents and manuscripts for errors and deficiencies and correcting them. Etsuko attacks the unglamorous job head-on: she travels to Hokkaido over a trivial detail in a novel, infiltrates the scene of an incident a weekly magazine is chasing to verify the facts, and at times persuades a writer to change content substantially over contradictions she has found.[7](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/intro/index.html) The official site notes that proofreaders normally do not deal with writers directly or visit reporting sites, so Etsuko's methods are unorthodox within the profession as depicted.[7](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/intro/index.html) The drama is framed as a workplace story that sends encouragement both to people who have achieved their dreams and to those who have not yet.[7](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/intro/index.html)\n\n## Cast and production\n\nThe cast pairs Ishihara's Etsuko with Masaki Suda as Orihara Yukito, a student and new writer with whom Etsuko falls in love, and Tsubasa Honda as her friend Morio Toyoko. Supporting roles include Masato Wada as Yoneoka Mitsuo, Noriko Egoshi as Fujiiwa Lion, Hiromasa Taguchi as Oda Taishō, and, as special appearances, [Takeshi Kaga](https://www.edgepedia.org/takeshi-kaga) as Hongō Daisaku and Miyoko YOSHIMOTO (芳本美代子) as Kamei Sayaka, editor-in-chief of *Lassy*. Takataka Aoki (青木崇高) plays Kaizuka Hachirō, an ambitious literary editor, and Kishitani Gorō plays Kusahara Kagine.[1](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/cast/index.html)\n\nThe scripts are by Mayumi Nakaya (中谷まゆみ) and Izumi Kawasaki (川﨑いづみ), the music by Kō Ōmama (大間々昂), with direction by Tōya Satō (佐藤東弥), Naoko Komuro (小室直子), and others. Rena Oda (小田玲奈) served as producer under chief producer Norihiko Nishi (西憲彦), with production cooperation from Kōwa International and production copyright by Nippon Television.[1](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/cast/index.html) In its fiscal 2016 report, NTV noted that Oda, who handled both this drama and *Ie Uru Onna*, received the Elan d'or Award Producer Encouragement Prize.[8](https://www.ntvhd.co.jp/ir/holder/report/pdf/84_4q.pdf)\n\n## The original novels\n\nAyako Miyagi's first *Kōetsu Girl* novel appeared in the Kadokawa Bunko edition on 25 August 2016, a 240-page paperback listed at 704 yen with ISBN 9784041042205.[9](https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/321601000156/) The series ran to three volumes: *Kōetsu Girl*, *Kōetsu Girl à la Mode* (校閲ガール ア・ラ・モード), and *Kōetsu Girl Tornado* (校閲ガール トルネード), the third released on 27 October 2016 and completing the story.[10](https://www.jprime.jp/articles/print/8586) In an interview with *Shūkan Josei*, Miyagi said she had wanted to publish a book titled \"〇〇 Girl\" and chose proofreading because editorial work and bookstores had already been used; the idea took shape when she was asked to contribute to a short-story collection about books.[10](https://www.jprime.jp/articles/print/8586) She also described how the professional proofreader assigned to her own manuscript, a \"proofreading boy,\" checked a date in a rejected draft of hers against historical sources and corrected the 26th to the 25th, an episode she wrote into the novel.[10](https://www.jprime.jp/articles/print/8586) Miyagi, born in 1976 in [Kanagawa Prefecture](https://www.edgepedia.org/kanagawa-prefecture), debuted in 2006 with *Hanayoi Dōchū*.[10](https://www.jprime.jp/articles/print/8586)\n\n## Reception\n\n**Ratings.** The drama kept a double-digit household rating in the Kanto region for every episode: 12.9% for the first episode, 11.2% for the second, 12.8% for the third, 11.2% for the fourth, 11.6% for the fifth, 13.2% for the sixth, 12.5% for the seventh and eighth, 13.2% for the ninth, and 12.3% for the finale on 7 December 2016, all measured by Video Research.[2](https://www.nikkansports.com/m/entertainment/news/amp/1748651.html) The average across the ten episodes exceeded 10%.[3](https://realsound.jp/movie/2016/12/post-3439.html)\n\n**Awards and industry recognition.** In the 54th Galaxy Awards' My Best TV Award vote, compiled by the Broadcasting Critics Council to convey viewers' evaluations to broadcasters and producers, the drama received 63 votes, placing it behind the winner, TBS's *Nige Hazu wa Yaku ni Tatsu* (逃げるは恥だが役に立つ), which received 190.[11](https://www.houkon.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/press_release54.pdf) NTV's own annual report credited the drama, alongside *Ie Uru Onna*, as part of a fiscal 2016 drama slate popular with young women that earned consistently high ratings.[8](https://www.ntvhd.co.jp/ir/holder/report/pdf/84_4q.pdf)\n\n**Effect on the profession.** A 2023 interview with Fumihiko Sasaki, head of the proofreading section at NTV Art, cited the drama as the reason proofreading is strongly associated with publishing houses, and contrasted that image with television proofreading, where checking on-screen text (telop) for live news is a race against seconds and fact-checking a single telop can take about ten minutes.[12](https://www.ntvart.co.jp/media/1566/) A 2021 article on the Mainichi Shimbun's proofreading center likewise named the 2016 drama as one factor that raised the profile of proofreading work.[13](https://encount.press/archives/355565/)\n\n## Follow-up and availability\n\nA special drama, *Jimi ni Sugoi! DX: Kōetsu Girl: Kouno Etsuko*, was announced on 2 June 2017 for broadcast that autumn, and its DVD was released on 31 January 2018.[4](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/) • [14](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/special/) As of 2024, the series was available for unlimited streaming on Hulu in Japan, which also carries a Hulu original version; it was not offered on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, or U-NEXT at that time.[5](https://entame.netoff.co.jp/kouetsu-girl-streaming/) No terrestrial rebroadcast was scheduled between 2017 and 2024 according to one streaming guide.[15](https://www.fm-kitaq.com/vod/?p=1541361)\n\n## References\n\n1. [Cast & Staff, 地味にスゴイ！校閲ガール・河野悦子, Nippon Television](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/cast/index.html)\n2. [石原さとみ「校閲ガール」最終回も２ケタ12・３％, 日刊スポーツ (8 December 2016)](https://www.nikkansports.com/m/entertainment/news/amp/1748651.html)\n3. [『校閲ガール』が教えてくれた\"地味に深い\"仕事の意義, Real Sound (8 December 2016)](https://realsound.jp/movie/2016/12/post-3439.html)\n4. [地味にスゴイ！校閲ガール・河野悦子 (What's new), Nippon Television](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/)\n5. [ドラマ「地味にスゴイ！校閲ガール・河野悦子」の配信が無料で見れるサブスクまとめ, VODチョイス by ネットオフ](https://entame.netoff.co.jp/kouetsu-girl-streaming/)\n6. [Jimi ni Sugoi! Kouetsu Girl Kouno Etsuko, Jdrama Weblog (6 October 2016)](https://jdramas.wordpress.com/2016/10/06/jimi-ni-sugoi-kouetsu-girl-kouno-etsuko/)\n7. [イントロダクション, 地味にスゴイ！校閲ガール・河野悦子, Nippon Television](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/intro/index.html)\n8. [日本テレビ放送網株式会社 平成28年度第4四半期決算説明資料](https://www.ntvhd.co.jp/ir/holder/report/pdf/84_4q.pdf)\n9. [「校閲ガール」宮木あや子 [角川文庫], KADOKAWA](https://www.kadokawa.co.jp/product/321601000156/)\n10. [『校閲ガール』原作者の打ち明け話, 週刊女性PRIME (23 November 2016)](https://www.jprime.jp/articles/print/8586)\n11. [第54回ギャラクシー賞 プレスリリース, NPO放送批評懇談会 (19 May 2017)](https://www.houkon.jp/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/press_release54.pdf)\n12. [視聴者に正確な情報を届けるための最後の番人 ┃ 校閲・佐々木文彦, 日本テレビアート (5 July 2023)](https://www.ntvart.co.jp/media/1566/)\n13. [「校閲ツイッター」、なぜバズる？, ENCOUNT](https://encount.press/archives/355565/)\n14. [地味にスゴイ！DX 校閲ガール・河野悦子, Nippon Television](https://www.ntv.co.jp/jimisugo/special/)\n15. 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