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| Nao Matsushita in Gegege No Nyobo |
As predicted, it only took me the rest of the week's episodes to totally fall in love with Matsushita Nao and her achingly sweet portrayal of Iida Fumie in the NHK Asadora GEGEGE NO NYOBO. She is SUCH a SWEETHEART that in only a few episodes, I was completely and utterly smitten with her!!!
I don’t know if Nao Matsushita is the kind of actress that you’d call a “raving beauty”, but she’s definitely pretty enough, and when you add that wholesome and pure charm she exudes to the mix, you get a girl that you’d want to scoop up and marry in an instant!! Never mind how “tall” she is!!! Who in their right mind would turn down an omiai because of her height?! That’s nuts!
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| Kohaku Uta Gassen 2010 |
As I noted in that earlier post, she seemed to get cuter and cuter as the night went on, and by the time the show ended, I REALLY wanted to get my hands on Gegege No Nyobo and check it out! (I suppose it didn’t hurt that they were showcasing the drama, with guest appearances by Ren Osugi and Osamu Mukai as well as a clip/preview of the show itself!)
The drama started out promising enough with a young girl playing the younger Fumie, but the show REALLY grabbed my attention when Episode 7 came up and Nao made her first appearance! Wide-Eyed and innocent, I KNEW I was gonna fall hard for her, she was such a CUTIE!!! Plus, she’s such a Good Girl, it breaks your heart when bad things happen to her- you really want to just hug her and cheer her on! And Hug Her! Yeah!
I really thought this was the very first drama I’d seen Nao in, but imagine my SURPRISE when I read Hamanosilence’s blog and found that she’d appeared in RYOKITEKI NA KANOJYO before! WHAAAAT!!!! I couldn’t believe it- She was in that drama? I didn’t remember her at ALL!
Then , thinking HARD upon it, it HIT ME!! She was Tsuyoshi Kusanagi’s childhood friend who was the original “love interest” until naughty Rena Tanaka came along to kick THAT romance to hell! Sadly, Nao’s character is a victim of unrequited love , as she gets brushed off in favor of the Sassy Girl herself!
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| in Ryokiteki Na Kanojyo |
That was quite a revelation to know I’d seen a WHOLE drama with her in it BEFORE Gegege No Nyobo, because for me, I’ve REALLY come to accept her as Fumie Iida, rather I should say, I believe she’s just like that character in real life! AHAHAHA!
I’m crossing fingers that this drama will continue to be translated and subtitled by the powers that be, for it’s only been subbed up to week Six so far, and it would be such a tragedy if the show was dropped ‘casue no matter HOW MUCH I love the asadora, I just wouldn’t be able to follow it without subs!
