Familiar Faces on "Zettai Reido 2"

Nanase Natsumi

Been sort of trying to catch up on the ever-growing list of dramas I'd put aside to watch at some point, and so it was that I finally got started on the Aya Ueto Drama "Zettai Reido 2", the sequel to her successful crime drama from the other year, and was happily surprised to see appearing as one of the guests in the fourth episode was none of ther than Nanase Natsumi, our beloved Asami Tadokoro from the sweet "Pokka Poka" series.

Nanase Natsumi and Ueto Aya

  Like her TV husband Haba Yuichi before her, however, these actors and actresses have no problem playing darker characters outside of the warm and happy Pokka Poka realm, so I wasn't surprised when Nanase Natsumi (as Vice Prinicipal to an elite children's school) began looking like the prime candidate in a sinister student kidnapping case in Aya Ueto's eyes...

   In the end, I was kind of disappointed that Natsumi didn't have a bigger role, but what the heck, it was quite nice seeing her again- I haven't seen her since the 2006 show Attention Please (which was coincidentally another Aya Ueto drama) and here's hoping to see even more of her in the future!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com