Crush of the Day: Nagisa Sekimizu
Anonymous: Keishicho ”Yubisatsujin” Taisakushitsu
with Oizumi Yo in Motokare no Yuigonjou
I finally got my wish in 2023, with her show “Who Am I?”, a mystery drama with Nagisa starring as an amnesiac who must solve her own assault case. Intriguing idea, sadly I was mostly bored with it and felt it draggy and mundane, a sad development for my Nagisa expectations!
Way back in 2020 I had my heart promptly smitten by adorable Nagisa Sekimizu in her role as the genki Aika in the excellent Yuriko Yoshitaka drama “Shiranakute Iikoto”, and at the time I enthused:
"Who’s THIS absolute CUTIE playing journalist Koizumi? (looks her up on asianwiki)...Why, it's Nagisa Sekimizu, who stole her scenes as the plucky co-worker of Mikoto in the Nanao drama 4-punkan no Marigold! Such a genki girl-I really like her feisty role in Shiranakute Ii Koto and hope to see her character get more screen time!"
Since then I’ve been lucky to see Nagisa involved in more and MORE projects, from shows like “Anonymous” to the awesome Motokare Yuigonjou, with character roles like these, I was dying to see Nagisa headline a show of her own!
Shiranakute Iikoto
4-punkan no Marigold
#Who Am I
However, all was not lost as another drama she did in 2023 fit the bill JUST RIGHT, and put me in full “Crush of The Day’ alert! The drama in question was called “Hamaru Otoko ni Keritai Onna~Unexpected Love Story in Maison Ginseiso” and THIS was the Nagisa I wanted to see: smart, cute and FUN, and finally bolstered her right to the top of the charts for me!
The english translation for this drama is "The Woman Who Wants to Kick the Man She Is Addicted To", and that really sums it up perfectly! The drama stars Taisuke Fujigaya as an arrogant exec named Koichi Shitara who gets fired from his job and divorced from his wife, only to end up as the housekeeper for a boardinghouse taking care of its tenants.
Unbeknownst to him, one of the tenants is a woman named Itsuka Nishijima (Nagisa), an ad designer that he once cruelly slighted during a job some 2 years earlier, and she has spent that time planning her revenge on him, honing her craft and becoming a success in her own right, if only to finally get the upper hand on him!
Of course, as dramas like these go, once you place two individuals who supposedly HATE each other and are forced by circumstance to be together for a time, they soon see the KINDER sides of their foes and become ATTRACTED to them, and eventually FALL in LOVE!
Yeah, such are the cliche-ridden plots of these kind of dramas, but I GOTTA say how much I was THOROUGHLY entertained by the show, and it ALL comes down to the likeability of its two stars...ESPECIALLY Nagisa who, as the questionably vengeful Itsuka Nishijima, instantly captured my heart from her very first appearance in the show and made me FALL in LOVE with her ALL OVER again!!
Spend a good portion of the show screencapping her, sadly Nagisa's character spends most of the show morosely in deep thoughts, resulting in most pics showing her looking glum, but when things go right, her smile saves the day! You just HAVE to root for her!
APOLOGIES for the excessive Nagisa Sekimizu PICSPAM, I JUST couldn't STOP myself!!!
Too bad, but luckily Nagisa is becoming more and more popular and appearing in more and more shows, so it won't be long til we see her again! Until then, I've certainly been enjoying her in Hamaru Otoko ni Keritai Onna!
Will be keeping an eye out for her future activities, for sure!
Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com
