Pretty Proofreader, Dictionary Version: Elaiza Ikeda in "Fune wo Amu"

Elaiza Ikeda in "Fune wo Amu"

 As you all know, I’m a huge fan of the 2016 Satomi Ishihara drama “Jimi Ni Sugoi~Koetsu Garu Kono Etsuko", the story of a fashion-conscious girl trying to get job at a Fashion Magazine where she is abruptly put into the publisher’s proofreading section instead. Though miffed and overwhelmed, the young lass will soon find she has a flair for the job and actually shine in it, using her skills not only in work, but life and love!

Below: Satomi Ishihara in Jimi Ni Sugoi:

And now we have the new drama “Fune wo Amu: Watashi, Jisho Tsukurimasu”, a drama starring Elaiza Ikeda as a fashion-conscious girl working for a Fashion Magazine, who gets abruptly moved to another of the publishers’ departments, this time the Dictionary section!

Ikeda as Midori Kishibe, Fashion Magazine designer...but not for long!

With the advent of digital media, more and more physical outlets are dying and their magazine is yet another to be axed. But not to worry, says her supervisor (Ayumi Ito)...for she has a NEW department position set-up for her to go to...

Venturing into her new home: The DICTIONARY department of the publishing house!

This is NOT a place for a hip and stylish girl like herself! There MUST be a mistake, she thinks...but NO, this is the place!

Meeting her new supervisor Majime (Yojiro Noda)

...as well as the rest of the team: Sasaki (Makiko Watanabe) and Tendo (Maeda Oshiro)

A brief description of the job...

Getting her first realization of how much words play in life.

Meeting the many people who are working on the dictionary and cooperating to make THEIR new dictionary a reality...

Midori feeling out of place and out of her depth!

Being reassured by Majime that she DOES have the talent to work in their department.

Slowly delving into the thick tomes and for the first time getting enlightened by the words and descriptions within....

Growing every day at her desk and learning more and more til words become a part of her life!

When I read the synopsis for Fune wo Amu, it was SO similar to the premise of  Jimi Ni Sugoi, that I initially wrote it off as a copy and made no real plans to watch it. But I do love actress Elaiza Ikeda a lot and so, when several subbing teams picked up the show, felt I should at LEAST check it out once!

Well, sure enough, there are identical elements that are hard to deny- the “fish out of water” element of the stylish gal suddenly thrown into the stark and rigid department of editing, the stern but compassionate guidance of the elders in the section, the slow realization of the importance of the job, and the inevitable use of the skills in her own life, etc. 

When the details of the actual job is talked about, the text of the subject appears onscreen for the viewer to understand, much like Jimi ni Sugoi did...

Heck they even stop the show for a “fashion check” montage, a harkening back that made me wonder if the show was giving an actual WINK to the Satomi Ishihara series!

In any case, I enjoy the show well enough and, my GOSH, Elaiza is so darn PRETTY in this that I know I’ll be QUITE happy to wile away the days here!

Elaiza goodness aside, should be an interesting one and eager to see more!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com

Birth of A Villain: Elaiza Ikeda is “Doronjo”

In the vein of Disney’s recent rebranding their classic super villains like Cruella and Maleficent into sympathetic anti-heroes, we have the “origin” of Yatterman Arch-Nemesis Doronjo, with actress Elaiza Ikeda as the titular character...

And just like the Disney re-imaginings, her character has been reworked so as to be completely unrecognizable from the iconic character! “There is NO WAY that this girl is going to become the outlandish cigarette smoking cartoon character we know.” is what I thought throughout the show!

In this revisionist drama, Nao "Dorokawa" (Elaiza) and Aika Hijirakawa (Hirona Yamazaki) are boxing athletes with a bitter feud between them, giving I guess a back history of resentment between them from the start. Gan Takaiwada is here as part of some "Criminal Apprehension" team which will eventually become Yatterman central(?)  They've even got Yuma Yamato and Wataru Ichinose as Doronjo's motley minions Boyaky and Tonzura, so the key figures are all here...just not like we remember them!

The future Doronjo: Elaiza Ikeda

Yuma Yamato and Wataru Ichinose as Boyaky and Tonzura

Daichi Kaneko and Hirona Yamazaki as the future Yatterman Team

Still, there are a LOT of interesting elements going on and I can’t say I’m not interested in seeing where this is all going!! Gotta say, I'm optimistic for this one!

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Crush of The Day: Elaiza Ikeda

 Just wrapped up “Hatarakazaru Monotachi“ which,besides being a short, fun drama you can binge in one sitting, is TOTALLY worth it for the ELAIZA IKEDA goodness ALONE!! 

Hatarakazaru Monotachi stars Gaku Hamada as a man named Hashida working for the I.T. department of a Newspaper. He’s noticed that while there are some employees who work hard, there are those who are lazy and simply goof off! Not that he’s much better, only half-assedly doing his work while he works on his online comic about “Ass-Man” LOL!

Part of him knows he should get down to working seriously, but the more he sees his fellow workers lazing around, the more demoralized he gets! But in time he realizes that these seemingly slacking employees have merit in what they do and he begins to see their worth.

Elaiza appears as Nana Kawae, the company’s HR employee who is the first to discover Hashida as Ass-Man’s author when she sees some doodles on his worksheets.

Confronting him, she steals every scene she’s in as she encourages him to continue his comic, give critiques and ideas which, however much unwanted by Hashida, inevitably help and INSPIRE him!

You all know how much I love my Elaiza and she KNOCKED ME OUT here!She was dolled up AS COULD BE in each episode as she helped/bossed Hashida, and I found myself waiting in anticipation to see what she would be dressed in next!!

Okay, full disclosure, despite how I may be presenting this, Elaiza 's part isn't that big, but WOW how great she is when she appears!!! After SO MANY posts about how lusciously SEXY Elaiza could be in various dramas and movies, it seems strange that this minor role would be the one where she finally attained Crush Status, but it was here that I really thought to myself, “Man! Elaiza is so freakin’ GOOD in every drama she’s in, so sexy and so CHARISMATIC!!!”

Definitely has become one of my BIG fave actresses !!!!