Some of you may remember my post about legendary cheesecake idol Reon Kadena, where I reminisced about how great she was back in the day…and wondered whatever happened to her!
Well, I got a bit of a happy update when she made a surprise cameo in an episode of the saucy Rio Uchida drama Raise de wa Chanto Shimasu as the bartendress (owner?) of a Lesbian Bar that Uchida’s Momoe blunders into with Ume (Lina Ohta) when Ume is trying to see if she might be gay.
Turns out she isn’t, but while they are there, they are met with several people including the bartendress who offers words of advice to an awkward Ume:
When she came into screen, my first thought was, “This lady looks SO familiar! Who IS she?”
Funny thing, though, I was running through older ladies in my head and never once though she might be an ex—idol, so I was HAPPILY surprised when I looked up the cast credits and found it was Reon herself!!!
I wonder…is Reon gay in real life? seems so odd to have her cameo as the owner of a Lesbian bar, and the advice she offers Ume is a cryptic “Your sexual preference is one thing you can’t lie to yourself about…nor can you change” which makes me wonder even more!
It was so cool to see Reon again after all these years, and my GOSH, though a bit older, she still looks as pretty as ever!
