Air Dates: April 8th to June 10, 2018 on TV-Asahi for ten episodes, aired at 2:30 am Saturdays
The video at the top is the theme song which was song by the two Haruka's
The main cast....
Haruka Fukuhara as Makoto Kikuchi.... Parents run a green grocery where she was scouted by Oshima and has struggled greatly at the beginning to be a voice actress(Seiyu).
Yurika Nakamura as Asami Kuriyama.... The best of the five females who are trying to become voice actresses, disliked Makoto at first for her lack of dedication.
Mariya Nagao as Ren Ineba.... Massive Otaku fan, especially for the 'Precure' series.
Jun Amaki as Konatsu Morimoto.... From Kansai and too often speaks in that dialect.
Aoi Yoshikura as Ryoko Ochiai.... Former child actress making a comeback as a voice actress.
The others, it's a very small cast so far and will add to the list if needed.
Haruka Tomatsu as herself.... Ex-voice actress who now hosts a popular radio show.
Shingo Tsurumi as Yuichiro Oshima... Head of Ihara Productions where the girls work.
Masaki Nakao as Katsutoshi Shoda.... Oshima's assistant.
Originally started this drama when it first came out back in April 2018 and even recapped the first two episodes. The third show was subbed and said I would continue once more were done. However those subs weren't coming or at least at the time they weren't as I think the team doing them dropped the project. Forgot about the drama for a long time but then discovered the whole series was subbed and am really glad about that as it seemed like such a fun show.
So am doing the first two recaps over as the others were done such a long time ago. For now the plan is to do two batches of five recaps in a row as the series has ten episodes. The shows are only 23 minutes long so these shouldn't be too lengthy which will make reading them much easier. Really had wanted to see another series with Haruka who is the star of the show and has 80% of the screen time, she's one superb actress. Will leave this intro up for this first batch but may tweak things here and there, let's get to the last of these five recaps.
For the sixth episode the spotlight will be on Kyoko which may mean that Asami won't get a chance in the spotlight until at least the seventh show. But as you can see above she's the busiest of all five girls, that was just her day activities as she also had two other gigs at night. Kind of funny how I almost screwed the order of things up, good that I watched episode six already even though the recap won't be done until next week. Watched episode six first thinking it was the fifth show, of course it wasn't and am very lucky I caught my boo-boo.
Not that it would have mattered as nothing from this show was carried over into episode six. For this show the focus is on Konatsu who is played by Jun Amaki. Don't know much about her but she will have her first semi intro post that'll be done about half an hour after this is done. To date we've seen so little of Konatsu who usually is the most cheery of the bunch. She hails from the Osaka region so needs to watch her dialect and accent in auditions which haven't been going well.
Actually Konatsu may be the biggest flop of all five housemates as we haven't seen her get a role yet. Plus she's not popular in the least as her Twitter account has so few followers and what she wants more than anything else is to be popular, Konatsu doesn't care how that happens. She keeps telling the other girls that originality is required to become popular but she even flubs up on that after opening up her pwn YouTuber channel. But Konatsu has a don't give up attitude and keeps trying to think of something which will make her noticeable.
Surprised then that Konatsu would pick a career as being a voice actress if her main goal is to become popular. Some Seiyu's have become big stars in Japan but not all that many so Konatsu begins thinking again what can she do to set her apart from other voice actresses? You can see the result above as to Konatsu her originality or 'best assets' are her chest as she posted a pic on her Twitter account. That pic was heavily viewed which led Konatsu to post many, many more of them which led her to be noticed by some photographers.
They wanted her to appear in some gravure magazines, with her growing popularity Konatsu readily agreed and before she knew it she had virtually become an overnight sensation. But in doing these photo shoots and such it also meant that being a voice actress had taken a backseat to her new gravure modeling career. That's usually not a long career as so many models are very popular for about half a year and then disappear, with all of the posts I've done for them have noticed that trend.
At home the girls are still behind Konatsu but they'd like her to make a decision soon on what career path she wants to take. Konatsu is such a happy go lucky gal but the pressure of doing both has gotten to her and she even snapped badly towards Makoto one night. Even her manager Oshima was a bit disappointed at what Konatsu has been doing even though it's made her extremely popular. He's about to give her the ultimatum which is to choose between being a Seiyu or a gravure model. Being a model means she'll change from the voice actress department to the talent department, that also means Konatsu would have to move out of the apartment.
In a not so surprising decision Konatsu has told her managers she'll be quitting her training to be a voice actress to concentrate on her gravure modeling. Konatsu up until this show has been a very down to earth gal who has really preached doing the 'basics' to her friends. But becoming a bit popular was something new to Konatsu who may have let it go to her head, deep down she still wanted to be a Seiyu but did she want to go through the failures to become one? It was unsaid but had the feeling Konatsu wanted to stay but would only do so if one of the other girls talked her into it, naturally the one that did was Makoto.
She ran after Konatsu after hearing of her departure from the apartment and caught up to her in a nearby park. At that park was a little girl who had been trying to learn bike riding for days but kept falling off. Konatsu had been observing the little girl and often thought she would go to help her which didn't happen. But the girl's determination had impressed Konatsu, with Makoto by her side they watched as the little girl was finally able to ride her bike without falling off. That little moment seemed to be the one which gave new inspiration to Konatsu as she made another decision.
That was to return to living with her four new friends, the popular gravure life was nice for a while but Konatsu admitted to her mates that being a Seiyu was her main dream. Seems the only person who wasn't shocked at her decision was the girl's manager Oshima who has mentioned her chose these five girls for a particular reason and guess he knew what he was talking about. So once again it's a happy family of five as Konatsu is going to work harder than ever to become a successful Seiyu as this recap comes to it's end. Next episode features the most unknown of the bunch who is Kyoko.
In real life Jun Amiki is a very successful gravure model and you can tell why by some of the screenshots. Thanks if you've read these recaps and if you're like me bet you prefer shorter posts. No must watch drama but to me this is a very enjoyable show and quite a funny one too as there have been times I've laughed out loud. Have viewed the sixth show which leaves four more to go and will be watching them that this weekend so expect the other five recaps about this time next week.
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