Holy Horikoshi, Batman!!

 While working on my Favorite Actress List, I happened to notice that both Asami Mizukawa and Kyoko Fukada both graduated from a private school called Horikoshi High School. Intrigued, I clicked on the school site and…BRAH, what is UP with Horikoshi High School? Is it, like, some kind of Entertainment-Focused Hall of Education? Is it a school for people who are ALREADY in the business? 'Cause I am ASTOUNDED at the amount of CELEBRITIES who graduated from this place! True, some transferred in and some dropped out, but HOLY TOLEDO, the sheer number of famous alums from this school seems like a roll-call of Japan geinokai!

Just some of the many names I recognized:

Aoi Yu

Asami Mizukawa

Ayase Haruka

Fukada Kyoko

Aragaki Yui

Toda Erika

Ueto Aya

Nagasawa Masami

Narumi Riko

Kutsuna Shiori

Kawakita Mayuko

Adachi Yumi

Fukatsu Eri

Sato Eriko

Kato Ai

Saeko

Kitagawa Hiromi

Nonami Maho

Niiyama Chiharu

Suzuki Anne

Renbutsu Misako

Hirayama Aya

Fukuda Saki

Kawashima Umika

Kobayashi Ryoko

Shimizu Fumika

Kurokawa Tomoka

Tomosaka Rie

Matsu Takako

Ishida Hikari

Imori Miyuki

Matsumoto Akiko 

Takahashi Yumiko

Takaoka Saki 

Sakurai Sachiko 

Yamaguchi Sayaka

Asano Yuko

Moriguchi Hiroko

Ozawa Natsuko

Ishida Eri

Katahira Nagisa

Sanada Hiroyuki

Noguchi Goro

Go Hiromi

Kusanagi Tsuyoshi

Inagaki Goro

Matsuoka Masahiro

Matsumoto Jun 

Yamashita Tomohisa

Toma Ikuta

Miura Haruma

Takahashi Issei

Matsuda Ryuhei

Yamada Ryosuke

Nakajima Yuto

Chinen Yuri

Fujiwara Tatsuya

Tegoshi Yuya

Koike Teppei

Shirota Yu

Tanaka Koki

Matsuda Seiko

Oginome Yoko

Moritaka Chisato

Mizuki Nana

Hamasaki Ayumi

Natsukawa Rimi

Sakai Noriko

Watanabe Minayo

Nagayama Yoko

Matsumoto Iyo

Okada Yukiko (!)

Hayami Yu

Honda Minako

Minamino Yoko

Hori Chiemi

Iwasaki Hiromi

Masako Mori

Asaoka Megumi

Ishikawa Sayuri

And  that’s only the names I immediately recognized-there were much, much more that I didn’t know and  probably even more that aren’t listed!

Kutsuna Shiori, Narumi Riko, Kawakita Mayu

That is ONE. HELL. OF. AN. ALUMNUS!!!