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The story
Ashida Mana, who is starring in a TV drama series for the first time in two and a half years, was reportedly spotted chatting with co-star Takahashi Fumiya at a café in Tokyo early on the morning of August 4.
On 5ch, comments jumped on the co-star connection with posts like “Isn’t that Meruru’s ex-boyfriend? lol,” and the discussion spread to cover her reported annual income of 680 million yen and recent takes on her acting skills.
[Spotted] Ashida Mana, Starring in a Drama Series for the First Time in 2.5 Years, “Chatting Alone Together Even During Breaks” — Side by Side With a “Handsome Actor Three Years Her Senior”
Ashida Mana and Takahashi Fumiya were spotted early on the morning of August 4 outside a café in Tokyo.
They stood close together looking friendly — so what’s really going on here?
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
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"Oh, if Kawaguchi AND Mana-chan both disappear, that makes me the queen of commercials"
no wonder guys are lining up
this pretty much confirms it
cute
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You can have Honda Miyu, I don't need her
do whatever you want lol
Can't be helped, honestly
He's got that soft, pretty-boy look
even Fuku-kun can't compete with this
and supposedly want her to marry a government bureaucrat or something
even that kid who got mercilessly trashed online back in his child-actor days grew up into a buff, handsome guy
Who's this buff handsome guy you're talking about?
TV stations aren't expecting good acting from Mana-chan anyway
they're banking on the huge sponsors standing behind her
Everyone's entitled to their own taste, but there's no need to go out of your way to trash her
She's been doing nothing but commercials and variety shows, so her acting's gotten worse
You're just out of the loop
The manager looks awfully used to holding her lol
and the creepy part is they're looking at her as a woman, not as a granddaughter or daughter figure
Background and Key Points
Ashida Mana became one of Japan’s most recognizable faces as a child actress, breaking through in the 2010 TBS drama “Mother” and going on to front dozens of commercials; her reported ¥680 million annual income reflects that rare status of a former child star who successfully transitioned into a top-tier CM (commercial) talent. This is billed as her first regular drama role in two and a half years, which is why a simple café sighting with co-star Takahashi Fumiya became newsworthy at all — Japanese entertainment reporting treats these “two-shot” (futari, or paparazzi-style spotted-together) photos as inherently suggestive of romance, even absent any real evidence. The thread itself was posted to 5ch’s Hello! Project board, an idol-fan subforum, despite Ashida having no connection to that talent agency group — a reminder that 5ch threads often migrate across boards based on which community is currently roasting the subject.
Posters didn’t really split over whether something romantic happened; nearly everyone treated it as innocuous. The actual divide was over her acting ability, with critics arguing her heavy commercial/variety-show workload has left her skills stagnant, and others pushing back that such criticism is unnecessary or that she simply isn’t being offered dramatic roles suited to her age.
What’s easy to miss: nothing here confirms a relationship — it’s a single unverified sighting reported by a tabloid-style outlet, and the ¥680 million figure is an outside estimate, not disclosed income. The “Meruru” nickname reference to Ami Umi is also an in-joke unrelated to Ashida herself, likely triggered by a resemblance rumor rather than any real link between the two.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Hello! Project) thread “[Sad News] Ashida Mana-san lolololol.”
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