VIVANT's Wakui Actor Shunsuke Tanaka Signs Show Monument, Viewers React To The Gap
The gap between Tanaka's mild off-screen manner and Wakui's DV storyline is doing the promotional work TBS needs, keeping a supporting villain in the conversation as viewers wait to see how the character is dealt with.
Reporting from 1 source: Magmix.
On September 8, the official VIVANT social media account posted a video of Shunsuke Tanaka, 36, signing the TBS program logo monument. Tanaka plays Wakui Shunsaku, the Foreign Affairs Division 4 investigator revealed in Season 2 to commit domestic violence against his wife. Viewers responded to his off-screen appearance with surprise at how different he looks without glasses.
The autograph clips are a running feature on the VIVANT accounts, with cast members signing the TBS program logo monument. Tanaka's turn came on September 8, and the comments that followed were mostly about recognition: several viewers wrote that they did not place him at first and only worked it out from jokes about the boiled egg scene.
Wakui is a glasses-wearing investigator in the Public Security Bureau's Foreign Affairs Division 4. Episode 17 made him a suspect when the girl Jamin, played by Sae Honma, rejected his photo, but the Shinsei informant turned out to be fellow investigator Sho Suzuki, played by Kenta Uchino. Wakui's domestic violence against his wife, played by Yuria Kizaki, was then revealed.
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