Who's That Girl: It's Chisa!

Chisa as Akane in Uta No Oniisan

So I’m watching the first episode of the Ohno Satoshi drama Uta No Oniisan, and I find myself just drooling over the pretty young thang that’s playing Ohno’s girlfriend Akane. This in itself is notable in that the drama is positively filled with pretty young thangs, but anyway…throughout the show I kept reminding myself to go check on just WHO this actress was, but wouldn’t ya know it, by the time I finished watching the drama, I had other things to do and it totally slipped my mind! 

Later that night, and I’m telling Car about Uta No Oniisan and the pretty actress that I still didn’t know the identity of. Trying to describe the gal to her, I said that the girl looked “kind of like Chisa from Girl Next Door.” As you all may remember from my FNS Kayousai post the other year, I was quite taken with Chisa's performance and gorgeous looks, so WHOEVER this actress was, she already had a thumbs up from me!

Lovely Chisa  at the 2010 FNS Kayousai

While we talked on the phone, Car had logged onto the computer and was perusing the dramawiki stats, and then said to me, “Hey wait, did you say Chisa?” There’s a girl named Chisa listed here as the girl named…Akane?” I laughed out loud- this couldn’t have been just a coincidence, could it? “That’s GOTTA be the same chick, right?” “I dunno, I never saw that drama The Girl Next Door,” said Car. “No, the musical GROUP Girl Next Door!” “Ohhh!”

And getting onto the AsianMediaWiki site, I was indeed presented with the stats: 

Chisa: Lead Vocalist for the group Girl Next Door, 

and in a lone, sole acting venture, listed:

Filmography: Uta No Oniisan /Akane 

LOL! So it WAS the lovely Chisa after all! 

Chisa as Akane in Uta No Oniisan

Well, I hve to admit that by the end of that first episode, I wasn’t exactly captivated by the show’s haphazard directing and cliché ridden plot devices, but with pretty girls like Chisa featured in the supporting cast, that may just be what it needs to keep ME coming back for more!