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Monday, March 3, 2014

Saki Fukuda: Ghost Friends drama episode 4 recap and screenshots



Air Date: April 2 to June 11, 2009 on NHK, it aired at 10:00 pm on Thursdays, rating was 3.6%.

Main Cast:

Saki Fukuda as Asuka Kamiya.... normal teen who for some reason can see and talk with ghosts
Takahiro Nishijima as Kaito Hayami.... he's a ghost
Ayame Misaki as Miku Aoyama.... one of Asuka's friends who died and is now a ghost
Ai as Yui Mishima.... Asuka's other friend who died and returned as a ghost
Noriko Iriyama as Misora Hongo.... the ghost who Kaito is chasing after
Nana Katase as Ayako Ono.... owns the cafe where Asuka works PT
Tomochika as Seiko Kamiya.... Asuka's dead mother who also returned as a ghost

 Saki has also had a semi successful singing career though it's been a few years since she's released anything. This episode we get a chance to here her sing and if you never have she does have a good voice, there's many of her PVs on YT. The ghost this time around who possessed a body was different from all the others as she was an elderly woman and her one regret was not going on TV and singing a song for her childhood boyfriend. It was an older song but Asuka knew it and sang it quite well when she went to practice it at a karaoke bar. However there is one huge problem and that is Asuka is scared stiff to sing in front of a lot of people, no problem with just a few there but she's supposed to sing the show on TV!



 There was some sort of amateur singing show which she applied to and was accepted to sing on the show, what is she going to do? Asuka and Kaito tried going out to a city plaza where she tried singing along to a boombox but she failed miserably, not looking good for her singing on the TV show but being a drama it will work out in the end. The elderly ghost never did get married to her childhood sweetheart, both had gone their separate ways but were reunited after their spouses had died. The man's health was not good and he didn't have a long time left in the world and his one wish was to see his old flame sing on TV. Asuka looked a bit like the woman when she was 17 so when she appeared on the music show the elderly man thought it was his sweetheart from years ago. Asuka in the nick of time out all her stage fright behind her and went out and sang the song perfectly, the older man really thought he was watching his old sweetheart and shortly after the show passed away but at least the elderly ghost was able to get her last wish fulfilled.



 Asuka's and Kaito's relationship has been quite good but she still hasn't revealed to him how much she's fallen for him, will she ever? Misora has now caught on to Asuka's feelings and is not happy with them at all but to date hasn't done anything to Asuka, least not yet she hasn't. Also for the last few episodes Asuka's teacher and her dead friends have been hounding her to turn in her career path survey, she wants to study the arts but for the most part has no clue what she wants to do, she really lacks confidence in her ability to do anything except to help ghosts. We'll find out what Asuka wants to do with the rest of her life as that ends up being the theme of the next episode.




















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