This is the translation of Kuroki Meisa's official blog called "Alarm from Meisa", just to make it clear to those who are confused by its title.

[2009-06-15] - (18:42)
Onna Nobunaga, it can't be helped



The day of onna kumicho! ! ! (female yakuza boss)
Today there's a day off from performing Onna Nobunaga,
so I'm filming "Ninkyo Helper".

A woman inside a man...
Female Nobunaga and female yakuza boss,
that's what they both have in common..

Look forward to the dorama too!

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Written by: jyoyu.blogspot.com
Please don't post this translation anywhere else

This is the translation of Kuroki Meisa's official blog called "Alarm from Meisa", just to make it clear to those who are confused by its title.

[2009-06-02] - (23:38)
Me too



I won't loose against mahomaho and Naomi!!!

We are still going to film the PV for a while!
Everyone is full of energy despite working since early morning ♪

I might spoil it a little, but here is 1 scene from the PV ☆

[Note: With not loosing against mahomaho and Naomi, she's referring to their hints about Meisa's new PV in the staff blog. Meisa simply also wanted to tease us a little and not let her managers have all the fun themselves. ^^ And yes, you probably already noticed, I haven't been translating the staff blog for a while now... too many updates.]

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[2009-06-03] - (02:20)
A moment ago

We've finished the PV~!!
I've never danced so much ☆

You definitely, DEFINITELY
have to check out the song together with the PV!!

The dancers are so great and cool!!
Look forward to it ♪

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[2009-06-04] - (11:14)
After yesterday



I've been in the theater and practicing!
Tomorrow the curtains are finally going to open~!!!

Today everyone has been focused again, went through some last things
and prepared our performance for tomorrow and thereafter.

Alright, this photo..
Guess what!!!
I got these from my wife Arimori Nami for my birthday!!
[Note: She only plays her wife in the play "Onna Nobunaga", of course.]

Aren't they cute~? ☆
I already know that I'm going to use them a lot after this season.

Arimori-san, thank you very much!

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[2009-06-05] - (23:41)
Curtains raised!!



Tomorrow will be 2 public performances again and I have so much fighting spirit right now, it's impossible for it go away until the very last performance!!!!

I heard that those rice cookies have been made by the fans of Nakagawa Akinori...
I'm going to take one~ ☆

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[2009-06-07] - (23:55)
Ta Daa!!!



A "Nobunaga" bathing compound!!!
Did you know that such thing exists?!
I got this from Ichinose-san during the opening day,
he plays the role of "Shibata Katsuie"!
Just as expected from our vassal!

Thank you very much.

I'll use a little bit of it when I'm tired ♪

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[2009-06-10] - (23:55)
Plop!!



We took this photo after the end of the performance today!!
What I'm holding are the tomatoes I received from my stylist
who came to see the performance today!!
There are lots of different kinds!!
Sweet, sour and a lot more different flavors ♪

I wanted to share it a little with everyone,
but they've been so popular!!!!!

Everyone worked hard, so we needed nourishment!!

Alright, let's do tomorrow with some big fighting spirit again~!!

[Note: I didn't know a better translation than "Plop!" for "Jan!".. it's basically like "Ta Daa!", only different... uhmm...]

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[2009-06-11] - (23:34)
Today



After the performance I had a photo shooting for 25ans!!
This is Hayashi-san who did my hair today!!!
He always does my hair fluffily and voluminous ♪

Don't miss the September edition of 25ans!!

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[2009-06-13] - (00:02)
Crows!!!



Yabe Kyousuke-san from Crows and Maika-san who comes up with the cool dances for my PVs came to see my performance ♪

I didn't expect them to come, so I was really surprised~!

I was so happy~ ☆

I got my 2nd Crows strap from Yabe-san ♪ ♪

I'm immediately going to put it on today!


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Written by: jyoyu.blogspot.com
Please don't post this translation anywhere else

Actress Kuroki Meisa (21) has been chosen as the heroine for the Fuji TV summer dorama "Ninkyo Helper" with the much talked-about Kusanagi Tsuyoshi (34) in the leading role. Heroine might be the wrong word, because she's actually going to play a female yakuza boss. With the "yakuza-style" clothes, it will be yet another role of a mannish woman after her current stage play "Onna Nobunaga".

Kuroki is playing a "man", again!? She's going to play a person that easily gets into fights and who has to take the place as a yakuza boss for her dead older brother. There are a lot of similarites to the character she's currently playing in the stage play called "Onna Nobunaga".

"I want to show a cold and cool Kuroki", the producer of the dorama commented. He also explained that "there is another face she had to conceal" and if you follow her character closely, you'll notice a lot of different expressions on her face.

Kusanagi, Kuroki and others work as bosses for different branches of the "Ninkyo" yakuza and one day they get the order from one of the big leaders played by Matsudaira Ken (55) to work as helpers as part of a training. Everyone sees it as a test from the leaders and seriously begin to work as helpers in order to raise their status. Overall it's actually more of a nursing comedy dorama than a yakuza dorama like you may have thought up to now.

Actress Natsukawa Yui (41) has been selected as the female company president of the nursing company the yakuzas are going to join. Her son will be played by child actor Kato Seishiro (7) who gained a lot of popularity through the current taiga dorama "Tenchijin".

Kusanagi and Kuroki will be working as colleagues in that nursing company with the same goal of raising their status while Natsukawa won't be that fond of those two. The relationships between those 3 people will see some big changes during the progress of the story.

It's actually Kusanagi's first role as a yakuza, but he gave a very strong comment about this new dorama. "I'd like it to be a straightforward dorama that will give people courage, hope and strength. I'm going to attack it with everything I've got."

"Ninkyo Helper" is going to start sometime in July and will air on Thursdays at 10pm.

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Written by: jyoyu.blogspot.com
Source: Sanspo
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Took me a while to upload all of those pics.
I hope you enjoy them and that you haven't seen all of them already. ^^

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Karina - Ginger and Ray Magazine (June 2009)




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Ueto Aya

Ueto Aya - Seda (May 2009)




Ueto Aya - up (June 2009)



Ueto Aya - Kindai (June 2009)


Ueto Aya - anan (No. 1660, 2009-05-27 Edition)



Ueto Aya - Big Comic Spirit (No.25, 2009-06-01 Edition)




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Kitagawa Keiko

Kitagawa Keiko - DeView (July 2009)



Kitagawa Keiko - Various/Random


















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Flix Script 2009 - Vol.01 July (Better/Bigger Scans, not all)

Nagasawa Masami




Ueto Aya





Horikita Maki




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Flix Script 2009 - Vol.01 July (Zeda Scans, Complete)

Nagasawa Masami





Ueto Aya





Kitagawa Keiko




Tabe Mikako




Yoshitaka Yuriko



Uehara Takako



Kichise Michiko



Kuroki Meisa




Horikita Maki




Not my scans!