Kalen Anzai cast as Ayu in the drama adaptation of "M 愛すべき人がいて"
 

https://twitter.com/tv_asahi_PR/stat...81998930329600



They attempted to remake the A BEST cover with the promo shot. The drama airs on Saturdays in April at 11:15PM.

You couldn't make it up, I guess if u can't be Ayu then the next best thing is to pretend to be Ayu

Avex just said "fuck it" and casted their "make it Ayu but peak Ayu" droid to play Ayu.

Wow. I'm surprised but also not. I think it's an interesting casting that is quite smart. I hope this will help boost Kalen's career.:)

Tbh I'm nor that suprised that :D she already gave some Ayu vibes on her Instagram pictures
Might be the reason why we got the remixes from Kalena first three singles and nothing really new. It will be interessting to see how good she is at acting. Iirc that's something she hasn't really done before.

I am a bit concerned about the casting since we've never even seen Kalen do interviews or anything. I think a lot of people were expecting Kalen to get cast but then who knows how she'll perform as Ayu.

Same, also somehow she only has 10k followers on IG which seems really low for someone with a MAC campaign and obviously a lot of money behind her from Avex.

It's true that we do not know anything about her acting ability. Playing the role of Ayu and her rise to fame will be a pretty demanding role. But this is also going to be a j drama type show as I understand it, not a biopic. So high quality acting skills may not be the top priority when casting. We won't know how it will turn out until it premieres.:think

I am not here for this.

I love this A BEST cover imitation. Lets just hope that drama will be good and received well.

First promo video?
https://twitter.com/maxmatsuuratwit/...31403209510913

I legit thought this was fake when I saw it on Twitter.

My only concern is if someone will sub this :laugh I actually love the concept they went for.

Wait wasn't this already expected by members here? I remember I first found out about Kalen cuz members had stated her whole career was started as a front to be Ayu in the drama. I love the image and so excited for this! Been loving Kalen's remixes of her singles.

Why so many butthurt people? Did you expect ayu to play herself or something? It‘s gonna give her the biggest promo boost since the book came out. Especially if the drama is actually good.

This is a super interesting project and I'm quite sure some subbing group will translate it. They really did Max a favour here ;)

Not super sure though if a group will sub it but it seems like it'll be easily accessible in raw form at least.

I was hoping for a recognized actress to play the drama so it can attract non-ayu fans easily. So Avex is giving all their push to Ms. Anzai? It better turns out good!

Imagine this was planned years ago and Ayu herself was a judge on the audition to find Avex's "new ayu"

Ok.. so when the drama is over Avex can you please give us our precious ayu tribute album right? :love

the bitterness in here... lmao!

super excited for this!

Ironically I think she looks more like Ayu in her videos than she does in an image trying to imitate her haha.

I’m excited for this though.

It doesn't help that the A BEST look is so iconic and then here she has some hairstyle that Ayu's never really had. I'm curious when we will see the first glimpses of the drama.