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Country of origin Japan No. of episodes 10 Final episode date 14 December 2007 Number of seasons 1 | 7.7/10 IMDb Original language(s) Japanese First episode date 12 October 2007 Number of episodes 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre Comedy, mystery, fantasy Starring Keiko KitagawaShōsuke Tanihara Similar Taiyo to Umi no Kyoshitsu, Buzzer Beat, Jikou Keisatsu, Sushi Ōji!, Watashitachi no Kyōkasho |
Mop Girl (モップガール, Moppu Gāru) is a television drama series based on the novel of the same title by Miaki Kato (加藤実秋, Kato Miaki); it recounts the adventures of Momoko Hasegawa, played by Keiko Kitagawa, who possesses the ability to travel back in time upon contact with belongings of a deceased person with unfinished business in life. She then has the chance to prevent the death of the would-be deceased.
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Plot

Momoko Hasegawa, a girl who dreams of being a wedding planner is transferred to Little Angels, a subsidiary company of her employer that provides funeral services, following a disastrous incident in a wedding ceremony at the hotel. She acquires the ability to travel back in time at the age of ten, when she is involved in a traffic accident but is saved by a mysterious woman, who passes the ability to her shortly before succumbing to her wound. Years later, she finally learns that the trigger to activating her ability is by touching an important item which belonged to a deceased person that held some sort of significance for them. She uses this ability to travel in time and prevents the death of the deceased persons she encounters on her line of work.
Cast
Momoko is a young salary woman working for Little Angel, a funeral services provider that handles a variety of cases. Despite having a low-paying job and living in a rundown apartment, she is actually the daughter of a wealthy family in the hospital business. She has a special ability to travel back in time, which she acquired in a traffic accident at a young age. This ability only becomes fully developed after she is transferred to Little Angel, as it is revealed that touching mementos which hold great significance to the deceased would activate her time-travel abilities. Throughout the series, she attempts to use this ability to travel back in time to prevent the deaths of the would-be deceased persons with unfinished business. She is obsessed with muscles.