Erika Toda: Shoten In Michiru no Mi no Uebanashi drama promo screenshots

 Above is the homepage for Erika's new drama that starts on January 8th, literal title for it in English is Bookseller Michiru's Life Story, site had a short promo video for it and here's some screenshots, two things I took from it.... 1) Looks like this drama is going to be a real winner and 2) Erika looks fantastic as usual!

Erika Toda at a December 5th promo event for her upcoming drama

 Been just way, way too long since I've done a post on Erika, she has been too quiet as of late, last thing she's done was a guest spot on the Higashino Mystery show back in August. Good news here though as she has a new drama starting up on January 8th called Shoten In Michiru No Mi No Uebanashi, reading the synopsis for it looks like it's going to be one worth looking forward to, kind of a dark mystery. These pics here are from a promo event Erika appeared at for the new drama, looking A+ still in my book and after that is a poster for the show.

Erika Toda: Suntory CMs #2

 Posted Erika's new Suntory CM a few posts down but also mentioned there were some new promo pics at their site so was wondering if there were going to be a few more CMs, there are and there's 3 in all, two 15 second ones and one that's 30 seconds so here are all of Erika's new Suntory CMs on one video.

Erika Toda: new Suntory beer CM for 2012 #1

 Here's Erika's new CM for Suntory beer, some 70% product, she looks really fine in this short CM plus check out the next post for a lot more promo pics for them.

Erika Toda: Suntory promo pics 2012

 More Suntory pics of Erika from their site, 2 of these are from the above CM but the rest are new, actually looks like some of these may be from another CM for them that hasn't been released yet.

Erika Toda: Info on her new drama Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi

 Mentioned a few days ago Erika has a new drama starting up in January and it looked to be a promising show, info on it came out yesterday on Mantan Web, it's going to air on NHK but checking their website out there was no page for the show but it hasn't even started filming yet, once any more info or pics from it come out will keep everyone updated, here's all the info for the new drama.

Toda Erika to star in new NHK drama ‘Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi’

It was recently announced that actress Toda Erika is going to star in her first NHK drama titled ‘Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi‘ (lit. ‘The life story of bookstore clerk Michiru’). This drama is scheduled to begin airing in January 2013.

The story of ‘Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi’ is based on a novel by Sato Shogo called ‘Minoue Banashi‘, which was published in 2009. It revolves around a woman named ‘Michiru’ (Toda) whose ordinary life suddenly gets turned upside down after winning 200,000,000 Yen (2.5 million USD) in a lottery with a ticket that isn’t hers. Suddenly she’s experiencing betrayal, murder, and a life on the run…

Toda’s supporting cast will be made up of Kora Kengo, Emoto Tasuku, Arai Hirofumi, and Omori Nao.

The whole story is being told from the perspective of a man who calls himself ‘Michiru’s husband’ (Omori).

‘Michiru’ is living an ordinary life in a provincial city and is working at a bookstore. She has a boyfriend, ‘Kyutarou’ (Emoto), and they’ve been together for almost one year now. However, her feelings don’t seem to be that strong, since she is also having an affair with the Tokyo businessman ‘Toyomasu’ (Arai), who came to the provincial city in the name of a major publisher. To make things worse, she decides on the spur of the moment to go to Tokyo with him, although she was only supposed to see him off on his last day in the city.

Before that, a colleague of hers gave her money to buy a lottery ticket in his/her stead, which she did, but she forgot to return it before leaving for Tokyo. Later, when she realizes that she still has the ticket and that it actually was the winning ticket for 200,000,000 Yen (2.5 million USD), she doesn’t tell anybody about it and transfers the sum to her own bankbook as soon as possible. That’s when her life suddenly takes a turn for the worse.

In Tokyo she only knows one person, her childhood friend ‘Takei’ (Kora), but his true colors turn out to be much different from what she expected. Her ‘Toyomasu’ also suddenly disappears off the face of the earth. Meanwhile, ‘Kyutarou’ is trying to find his girlfriend, who suddenly went to Tokyo without telling him why; and then there’s even a murder…

NHK is going to air ‘Shotenin Michiru no Minoue Banashi’ in their ‘Yoru Dora’ (‘Night Drama’) time slot every Tuesday at 10:55 pm. There will be a total of 10 episodes and the first one is slated to air on January 8th, 2013.

Erika Toda: SPEC TV movie screenshots #2

 Part 2 of Erika as Touma from the SPEC TV movie, she really did such a fine job in this as well as the regular series, shots at the bottom are when she lost her SPEC powers or did she, kind of left the door open for her to get it back in the theatrical movie.