Crush of The Day: Airi Matsui

My hands-down favorite show on right now is Kono Otoko wa Jinsei Saidai no Ayamachidesu and my Crush of the Day is none other than Airi Matsui, the show’s spritely star playing the feisty and loveable Yui Sato!!

Oh my GOSH, this girl has soooo much charisma, it’s insane! From Cute to Courageous, Airi shifts from confident worker to starry eyed dreamer to tuff tomboy so fluidly and you’re at the edge of your seat just waiting to see which personality she pulls out next!

She totally steals every scene she’s in, no small feat when you consider her best friend is played by the devastatingly luscious Moemi Katayama (whose boobs captivated my interest in the otherwise so-so drama Hello Harinezumi) and yet Airi STILL commands my attention!

I made a note that Airi reminded me not just a little of actress Ayase Haruka with her dreamy “deer-in-the-headlights” look whenever she’s confused by whatever shenanigans Hayami Mokomichi is pulling on her, but now that I’ve had some time to think, you know who she “feels” like, Shihori Kanjiya!

 Same super-tough gal but kind and sensitive to others and a doll to boot!

Seriously, I can not get ENOUGH of Airi in this show! She is SO cute and FUNNY, and ya know what, NO ONE scowls like her!!!

 

Yui Sato always dresses so stylish and I'm always dying to see what outfit she wears next, and Somehow I'm always taken by her hairstyles, especially when it's piled up on her head, etc...

There was this scene where she is forced to attend a party, and it’s a usual cliche: the rich guy buys her a dress and she looks good, but HOLY TOLEDO, Airi looked SO DAMN PRETTY!!! Like, Y’all, this is TOTALLY my kind of GIRL!!

  I already mentioned in a Keiko Kitagawa post years ago about my weakness for hair bands but MAN, the whole look, the dress, the hair, the heels, argh my heart….

So obsessed with my love for Airi, I HAD to go back and re-watch both Yamada kun to 7 nin no Majo  and Jigoku Sensei Nube because I absolutely didn’t remember her in either!

In the former, Airi turned out to be the tomboyishly tuff Noa Tagikawa ( her debut role which really is a nice precursor to her Yui Sato role):

and in Jigoku Sensei Nube, Airi was the girl playing the best friend of Hinako Sano’s character, and if you remember how much I was in love with Hinako back then, it’s no wonder I didn’t pay attention to her friend!

So funny to rewatch these now, because all I can see is my girl Yui Sato in these roles! It's Airi’s time to break out and i’m in full support of it!!!

Posted by Zdorama @https://zdoramaagain.blogspot.com

Satomi Ishihara is Back with a New Etsuko Kouno Adventure

Just finished watching the Jimi Ni Sugoi-Kouetsu Girl Kouno Etsuko DX special, and oh my gosh, I forgot how much I loved this show! Whn the show began with the opening credits from the original show with Chay’s “12gatsu No Ame” and the paper-doll Etsuko Kouno scampering about, it was like visiting an old friend!

When we last saw Etsuko Kouno, she had finally been promoted to her dream job as editor for the Lassy Fashion magazine, but as we see in this continuation, somehow she just can’t get her proofreading skills out of her blood and for one reason or another, always ends up back in the proofreading section of the building!

 All her old castmates are back, including Masaki Suda as her now-official boyfriend Yukito-kun, Tsubasa Honda as her coworker Morio and Goro Kishitani as her frumpy but kindhearted boss Takehara. They’ve even got darling Rika Adachi back as one half of the fashionable front-desk girls (along with Marie Soda), a nice sight for sore eyes! 

Along with the old cast are a couple of new characters to make Etsuko’s new life as a fashion editor just a little bit more complicated, including a cold and unfriendly new Editor-in-chief named Rin Nikaido, who wants to move the lagging Lassy Magazine’s sales into the digital online age… (Nikaido is played by Yoshino Kimura, and when I look at this as, well as her last drama Boku No Yabai Tsuma, all I can think is, remember when she was such a cute thing? Now she’s always playing these mean and icy ladies!)

 

…as well as a saucy (and busty) new adversary with Hinako Sano playing Karen Tachibana, the new agent taking care of Yukito’s new book who takes it upon herself to work her way into his home, make his meals, clean his house and even draw baths for him! How will the jealous Etsuko deal with this?

This was a fun visit back with characters we love, and the way the special ended up, I think we can even expect MORE Jimi Ni Sugoi specials (and maybe even a sequel series?) if we’re lucky!!

Posted by zdorama @ zdoramaagain.blogspot.com