♥ One Love ! The Third Official Erika Sawajiri Thread ♥

[rookies]

『 Erika Sawajiri 』





Latest News:

♥ ERIKA is currently in Spain studying graphic design to be able to make her own jacket covers and shall return to Japan in late June/early July.

♥ Erika Sawajiri got married, and went on her honeymoon. (see the very bottom of this post for pictures!)

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Discography:


Singles

Taiyou no Uta - August 30, 2006 (#1)
Free - July 4, 2007 (#1)
Destination Nowhere - November 28, 2007 (#7)

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Links:

Official Site

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History:

Spoiler:

Erika Sawajiri (沢尻 エリカ ), born April 8, 1986 in Nerima, Tokyo, is a Japanese actress, model, and musician. Her alias in her music career was Kaoru Amane, but she has recently started her own project under the name Erika. She is currently affiliated with Sony for her record label as formerly Kaoru Amane and later Erika, and Stardust Promotion for her talent agency as her real name, Erika Sawajiri, and became popular after playing a girl who suffered from an intractable disease called spinocerebellar degeneration (SCD) in the nonfiction drama "1 Litre of Tears".

Biography:

Spoiler:

In 1999, Erika passed the Stardust audition after graduating from elementary school. She became part of the idol unit Angel Eyes and began modeling for junior fashion magazines such as CUTiE and nicola. She later won the grand prize for the 2001 Seikore and became a regular on the BS news program Harajuku Launchers. In 2002, Erika started her career in film as well as extending her modeling career as a gravure idol. Her first film was Mondai no nai Watashitachi.

She also became one of Fuji TV's Visual Queens in 2002. On the NTV variety show The Yoru mo Hit Parade, she became a regular from April till late June, shortly after leaving the program for the CX news program Chou VIP Fortune no Tobira from mid-June till late August. In November, she was on the CBC variety show Bijou Dokyuu and TBS show B-1. She got her big break when she was cast in the TBS TV drama Hotman. Her most notable role was in 1 Litre of Tears in 2005 when she portrayed a girl with the degenerative disease spinocerebellar degeneration.

Erika first started her music career under the name "Kaoru Amane", the name of her character in her last drama, the TV adaptation of A Song to the Sun (Taiyou no Uta). The single went into number 1 in its second and fourth week. On July 16, 2007, Erika released her 'debut' single under only Erika entitled "Free". The single was immediately ranked on its first day as number one on the Oricon Charts. Oricon stated that she is the only artist in 39 years to get their first two single hit number one since Hiroko Yakushimaru in 1983.

She decided to enter the entertainment world because she wanted to meet singer Namie Amuro whom she idolizes.

On January 20, 2009, Erika Sawajiri married media creator Tsuyoshi Takashiro at Meiji Shrine in Yoyogi. The pair registered their marriage on Jan 7, which fell on the most auspicious of the days - or “taian” - according to the six-day “rokuyo” calendar, and they held a small reception in Hawaii for their close friends later that month.

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Wedding Pics:

Spoiler:

http://www.sanspo.com/geino/news/090...1633003-n1.htm
http://beauty.oricon.co.jp/news/62215/

[kotora]

Wow a wrong time to capture her smile.

[pommy48]

ug.....why put that pic in the first post @_@ still scare me so much

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Originally Posted by pommy408

ug.....why put that pic in the first post @_@ still scare me so much

Well, it's the most recent pic of her in the media.

But it does look like she fixed her teeth a little bit, cus I think it looked worse before. -___-

[vampireknightzero]

I hope she will return to her acting career..missed her dramas ><

[Beauty4123]

she said she wants to return to dramas in the summer, i think? i just hope she gets back to acting and singing REALLY soon.

[rookies]

I've been waiting for her to release her first debut album. -___-

If we are lucky, we'll get it this year, even late this year is better than next year.

[LEOyumi]

Oh my, she looks wonderful in her wedding dress! *-*

[howtousesexy]

lisa posted this in the other erika thread

Originally Posted by SushiBoat @ JPM

News Update~

ERIKA is currently in Spain studying graphic design to be able to make her own jacket covers and shall return to Japan in late June/early July. :w00t:


A recent Oricon poll says ERIKA has the MOST DRAMATIC LIFE.

http://www.erika-sawajiri.net/index....d&topic=1645.0

[Beauty4123]

ahh my apologies! i had a hard time finding erika's thread. i never knew this one existed!

[pommy48]

XD haha she sure does~ so jacket cover @_@ as in single/albums?

[Beauty4123]

i sure hope so! i desperately want a new single

[pommy48]

or a new album *o*! ah... she may just say she's going to spain for design, but spain is rather pretty....pretty enough for single/album covers?

[rookies]

Thanks for the news update on her.

But does she really need to go to Spain to study graphic design in order to make her own cd covers? o_O Seems a bit unnecessary to me. Lol.

Anyways, I have some free time today, so I'm going to re-design the first post to make it look better and with more info.

[elepop]

Gosh, her husband is ugly.

I had to say it...

Anyway, congrats to her anyway! I hope she returns to acting and singing soon. I know Erika won't be the typical Japanese celebrity that simply retires completely to be a housewife. She's cooler than that.

[AyUta]

That does sound like she's making them for actual CD covers! I do hope so

[Yoake]

So with news in this thread http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showth...=65249&page=26

She don't drop music!^^

We could hope for a new single in few month

[rookies]

^ howtousesexy posted the new info in post #9 of this thread. ^^

I didn't know she had her own forum on the internet: Link

That's cool. Looks like there are some new pics of her and her husband on that forum, cool.

[pommy48]

so wait, she's the one that opened that forum? @_@

[rookies]

^ Who are you referring to?