<figure id="attachment_397754" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 2048px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397754"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7b31da8d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/f8dcd86705bf36d139b24352a85267e9.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397754" class="wp-caption-text">Sairi Ito (left), star of &#8220;Tora ni Tsubasa&#8221; and Kanna Hashimoto, star of &#8220;Omusubi</figcaption></figure>
<p>The heroines of the first and second season morning dramas will appear together on the Kohaku stage.</p>
<p>The heroines from the first and second seasons of the TV drama series will host the 75th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen to be broadcast on New Year&#8217;s Eve this year. They are Sairi Ito (30) from the first season&#8217;s &#8220;Tora ni Tsubasa&#8221; and Kanna Hashimoto (25) from the second season&#8217;s &#8220;Omusubi&#8221;.</p>
<p>Hashimoto is currently passionately playing the role of Yoneda Yui, who struggles daily with her gyaru mindset. Ito&#8217;s performance in &#8220;Tora ni Tsubasa&#8221; as a lawyer living in the raging legal world has generated a great deal of response. Columnist Wakako Tago notes that the two have &#8220;many things in common besides being morning drama heroines.</p>
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<p><span class="strongInContent"> Both are good communicators and skilled talkers. They are both good communicators and skilled talkers. They are also petite and have husky voices. They are both good at making a good comment and have a cheerful disposition, which is similar to me. It should be a Kohaku (red and white) show in which Hiroyuki Ariyoshi (50), who will host the show with the girls, does the talking and the two of them do the sharp talking.</span></p>
<figure id="attachment_397756" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 3648px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397756"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="329feb00"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/071475bbd3121b83bfff284ab902a9a9.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397756" class="wp-caption-text">Hashimoto at the Santa Claus talk event for the movie &#8220;Black Night Parade&#8221; in December &#8217;22.</figcaption></figure>
<p>This will be Hashimoto&#8217;s third consecutive year as host, and since her first time as host, &#8220;her stability has been outstanding,&#8221; according to Takayuki.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Since Kohaku is a national program, most people are nervous when they host the event for the first time. However, Ms. Hashimoto was really magnificent. Instead of being nervous, she was enjoying the show, which made me feel at ease. The Kohaku production supervisor saw how calm she was during the rehearsal stage and said, &#8220;I&#8217;ve never seen anything like this before. I am sure that Ms. Hashimoto will be able to calmly handle any unexpected problems that may arise.</span></p>
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<figure id="attachment_397757" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 2883px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397757"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="35494bba"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/2518fb67524b6d4c7b362001d102347f.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397757" class="wp-caption-text">Ito at the stage greeting for &#8220;Just a Little Reminder,&#8221; a movie in which she starred with Sousuke Ikematsu in February 2010.</figcaption></figure>
<p>This will be Ito&#8217;s first major role in a film, but Takayuki is confident that she will be able to pull it off without a hitch.</p>
<p><span class="strongInContent"> Ito is a member of a podcast talk show with Maayu Matsuoka (29).</span><span class="strongInContent"> Ito is doing a podcast talk show with Mayu Matsuoka (29) called &#8220;Mutual Assent,&#8221; and her reactions are really good. He is a quick thinker and a good talker. He is a child actor, so he can see what is going on around him, and he is very attentive to his surroundings. Above all, her cheerful character makes the atmosphere of the place better. I am sure that the Kohaku will be filled with smiles.</span></p>
<p>Thanks to the two heroines, the Kohaku Red Light Festival is expected to be even more lively and cheerful than usual.</p>
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<figure id="attachment_397763" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 3648px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397763"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="c93b7ac0"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/f020a6347e244a0f19255a81783b97e8.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397763" class="wp-caption-text">The &#8220;2023 Hélandres Prize&#8221; award ceremony was held in February &#8217;23. Ito appeared as a presenter for the producer of the drama series &#8220;Mystery and Not to Mention&#8221; in which she appeared.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_397760" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 3648px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397760"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="7e51c5e0"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/60f250620c2031b43633bafbcf23ad23.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397760" class="wp-caption-text">Hashimoto appeared at the presentation of the new commercial for Yofuku-no-Aoyama &#8220;Fresher&#8217;s Anshin Omotome Set&#8221; in February &#8217;23.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_397764" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 3465px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397764"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="3c546ae5"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/f64b7baac963a0c019ec48e1f6cb3c40.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397764" class="wp-caption-text">At the premiere screening of &#8220;Just a Little Reminder. The film depicts a bittersweet love story between a man and a woman.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_397761" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 4926px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397761"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="ba7bdb65"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/064b3b395c6bfa2a29e5eed616dc9f3a.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397761" class="wp-caption-text">Hashimoto appears on the red carpet parade for the movie &#8220;Black Night Parade&#8221; in December &#8217;22. This is her first public appearance since her love affair was reported.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_397765" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 3648px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397765"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="d6d1135a"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/59aa5f0b899a64f0695de085289b684a.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397765" class="wp-caption-text">In May &#8217;23, Ito won the Best Newcomer Award at the 31st Hashida Award. The award was given in recognition of her performances in the serial dramas &#8220;Of Course You Say Mystery&#8221; and &#8220;The Man Who Was Picked Up.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_397766" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 3355px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397766"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="561ae20d"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/bf875f90e7a6cebaa41cec526861b1d8.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397766" class="wp-caption-text">In September &#8217;23, Hashimoto appeared on stage to greet the opening day of the movie &#8220;Forbidden Play. The film stars Shigeoka Daiki in the lead role.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_397768" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 3028px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397768"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="b52f65b0"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/127a370e54a4a5d357e633d92c1972e2.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397768" class="wp-caption-text">Ito appeared on the red carpet at the &#8220;Tokyo International Film Festival&#8221; in a chic long dress in &#8217;21.</figcaption></figure>
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<figure id="attachment_397767" class="wp-caption alignnone" style="width: 3648px;" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-397767"><a href="#" data-ident_hash="99d2d110"><img src="https://res.cloudinary.com/fridaydigital/image/private/t_article_image/wpmedia/2024/11/74495a51290d722ccbea975a296da6d5.jpg" alt=""></a><figcaption id="caption-attachment-397767" class="wp-caption-text">In July &#8217;23, Hashimoto attended the stage greeting at the completion announcement preview of the movie &#8220;Scattered in Spring. She looks great in a white dress.</figcaption></figure>
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 Hirotsuru Fujiyama

 Kazuhiko Nakamura

 The heroines of the first half and second half of the TV drama series will host the 75th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen to be broadcast on New Year's Eve this year. The two have much more in common than just being morning drama heroines.

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