Yuko Tanaka previously worked with Director Nobuo Mizuta and Screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto in 2010 NTV drama series "Mother" and 2013 NTV drama series “Woman: My Life for My Children.”

Both stories portray the harshness life brings and the strive of the characters to do good/survive while exposing humanity.

Yuko Tanaka previously worked with Director Nobuo Mizuta and Screenwriter Yuji Sakamoto in 2010 NTV drama series "Mother" and 2013 NTV drama series “Woman: My Life for My Children.”

Both stories portray the harshness life brings and the strive of the characters to continue living is beautiful. These both pull on your humanity heart strings.

In both dramas, there is a character who wears bag/box over their face. What else do we want?! This is either because appearance/ identity, etc. They both also have school romance.

Sayonara Debussy is the 2016 "remake" of the Goodbye Debussy 2013.
Both based on the novel "Goodbye Debussy" by Shichiri Nakayama