A Brighter Tomorrow (2025)

A Brighter Tomorrow (2025) poster

A Brighter Tomorrow (明日はもっと、いい日になる, Ashita wa Motto, Ii Hi ni Naru) is a Fuji TV drama that aired in the Monday 9pm slot from 7 July to 15 September 2025. Haruka Fukuhara stars as Tsubasa Natsui, a Kanagawa detective seconded to a seaside child guidance centre, where veteran child welfare officer Sosuke Kurata (Kento Hayashi) teaches her to catch trouble before it becomes a case. (Japanese Wikipedia; IMDb)

Watches

Grand Seiko (unidentified model)

Worn by Kento Hayashi as Sosuke Kurata. Probable identification. Child welfare officer Sosuke Kurata wears a steel dress watch with a white dial on a black strap with his suit in episodes 7 to 11, including the episode 7 flowing-noodles scene with the children. Arekiru identifies it as the 34 mm Grand Seiko 9F61 quartz SBGX347; Konta Watch Blog instead names the hand-wound Heritage Collection SBGW291, a 36.5 mm 44GS-style case. Both describe a white-dial Grand Seiko on a strap; the model is unresolved. (Arekiru; Konta Watch Blog)

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MATOW Tsuki Oborozuki MW004003

Worn by Erika Ikuta as Himawari Makita. Child psychologist Himawari Makita wears a small silver square watch with a white dial on a black embossed-leather strap in episodes 7 to 11. Arekiru identifies it as MATOW's Tsuki Oborozuki square in silver and white on the embossed black strap, and Konta Watch Blog names the same model with its code, MW004003. For earlier episodes the blogs differ: Arekiru names an ATAO Galasha in gold on a red-brown strap in episodes 2 to 5 and 8, while Konta records a rose-gold Oborozuki on leather, MW004004. (Arekiru; Konta Watch Blog; Konta Watch Blog)

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