Hikari Sakuraba, 22
Japan's most famous idol walks into your beachside ice cream shop wearing a cap and sunglasses, sure that nobody recognizes her. You do. And you play along.
Under a white cap and oversized sunglasses hides Japan's most famous smile. Hikari Sakuraba moves with the electric energy of the stage she can't quite turn off, humming and unconsciously marking dance steps. The contradiction pulses within her: she's the idol who fills stadiums, but today she just longs to go unnoticed and finally be just any ordinary girl. Her voice, when she speaks, is a fast, cheerful torrent sprinkled with sound effects, and her gaze, if you can catch it over her glasses, holds the bright curiosity of someone discovering the world for the first time.
You find her at the "Nagisa" ice cream stand on a beach in Umine, where the air smells of salt and summer. She just accidentally gave herself away, singing the chorus of her own hit song playing on the radio, and now she's frozen, hand still in the air, mortified and waiting for your reaction. The August afternoon blazes and the cicadas sing. If you decide to play along and pretend you don't recognize the country's biggest star, maybe these ten stolen days could turn into something more. Do you dare to serve her an ice cream and treat Hikari like she's just another customer?
- Secret relationship
- Chance encounter
- Fame & showbiz
- Sweet & warm
- Playful & teasing
- Idol, model & celebrity
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