DASADA

DASADA is a Hinatazaka46 drama. It started airing on January 15, 2020.

Information

• Episodes: 10
• Broadcast Network: NTV, Hulu Japan
• Air time: 00:59
• Running time: 23 minutes
• Theme song: Seishun no Uma

Synopsis

DASADA is a drama set on an all-girls' highschool. Days go by with nothing worthy of note going on - until the class president, most lame girl, kick-started a fashion line brand called 'DASADA'. A story of friendship and chasing after one's dream.

Cast

Main Characters

• Kosaka Nao – Sada Yuria
• Watanabe Miho – Shinohara Saori

Classmates

• Sasaki Kumi – Tachibana Yuriko (Yuria's friend)
• Tomita Suzuka – Hataya Nanao (Yuria's friend)
• Sasaki Mirei – Okada Ichigo (sister of Tororo)
• Miyata Manamo – Naoshima Shouko (volleyball club member)

Senpai

• Kato Shiho – Takato Serena (Serena~de) (Model and most popular girl at school)
• Ushio Sarina – Ogiwara Miki (Serena~de's friend)
• Nibu Akari – Harusawa Kurumi (Serena~de's friend)
• Saito Kyoko – Ogawara Makoto (volleyball club president and childhood friend of Serena~de)
• Tano Yuka – Neruma Matsuko (Makoto's classmate and volleyball club member) (Former AKB48)

Kouhai

• Kanemura Miku – Furuoka Satsuki
• Kamimura Hinano – Gotanda Sumire

FACTORY Members

• Higashimura Mei – Guinomi (youngest in the group)
• Matsuda Konoka – Ochoko (leader of the group)
• Kawata Hina – Tokkurin (oldest in the group)

Other entertainers

• Takamoto Ayaka – Mahopoyo (model, rival of Serena~de)
• Iguchi Mao – Tororo (gravure idol; sister of Ichigo)

Others

• Takase Mana – Kirari (FACTORY fan)
• Hasegawa Tomoharu – Yuria's papa
• Ikehata Reina – Yuria's mama
• Nomaguchi Tōru – Ushioka (Saori's father, debt collector)
• Kanda Uno – Saori's mother
• Moriya Yuuta – Torata (Ushioka's henchman)
• Kenta Charles Ezemeta – Pondy (worked in the Chinese restaurant next to Yuria's house. After the owner ran away from the debt collectors, he decided to start cooking for Yuria's family)

Episode Guide

Episode	Name	Plot	Air Date
1	Encounter (出会い Deai)	Sada Yuria (Kosaka Nao) is asked about her future career plans by her teacher, and she says she wants to have the most beautiful face. One of her goals is to own the grey tie that is part of the uniform from a popular boy's school nearby because all the popular girls wear those ties. Her parents, who own a clothing store, are attacked later that day by debt collectors demanding back money they had lent to Yuria's family. Yuria promises the debt collector to make ¥10,000,000 within the next six months to save her parents' business. She finds out that her classmate Shinohara Saori (Watanabe Miho) likes designing and asks her to help her create a fashion brand, but Saori declines.	January 16, 2020
2	The Beginning (始まり Hajimari)	Saori meets up with a fanclub of the female idol group FACTORY, but ends up leaving quickly because of their dull fashion sense. On the way home, she runs into Yuria. A man falls down the stairs next to where Yuria is trying to sell white t-shirts for ¥10,000 each, and he ends up buying one for a very reduced price after Saoria writes the word "DASADA" on it. Yuria asks Saoria to help once again and tells her the real reason why she needs money, but Saori declines once again. The next day, however, Saori shows up at Yuria's home and tells her they'll do it together. At the end of the episode, it is revealed that Saori's father is the debt collector cornering Yuria's family.	January 23, 2020
3	Make Believe (偽り Itsuwari)	Yuria decides that the school's most popular girl, Takatou Serena (Kato Shiho), also known as Serena~de, should become the model for their new fashion brand now called DASADA. Together with Saori, she takes Serena~de and her friends out to karaoke. They reveal that they would like her to model the DASADA line, to which Serena~de agrees – as long as the clothes fit her many preferences. It is revealed that, while she is popular at school, she struggles to keep up with other models at work. Yuria and Saori find out that Serena~de doesn't like Yuria at all and thinks that Yuria's pretty face is a popularity to her threat, but still want her to model the brand for them.	January 30, 2020
4	Kindness (優しさ Yasashisa)	The scary volleyball club president, Ogasawara Makoto (Saito Kyoko), is on a hunt for Yuria. Yuria's friends, Tachibana Yuriko (Sasaki Kumi) and Hataya Nanao (Tomita Suzuka), tell Saori that Makoto recruited Yuria to be part of the volleyball team but due to Serena~de's influence, Yuria quit the club, but said that it was because Makoto was scary. Saori forces Yuria to confront Makoto, who then asks the two to produce 15 uniforms in four days. Yuriko and Nanao tell Yuria that they overheard the volleyball club members scheming to make Makoto quit the club and ask her not to produce the uniforms, but Yuria and Saori decide to finish the job. They see a classmate of Makoto, Neruma Matsuko (Tano Yuka) tell Makoto that she should quit the club and leave it to the younger generation, and edit the uniforms once again to help Makoto win over the volleyball club members. Eventually, they get it done the night before only because of the help of Yuria's parents and Makoto herself. When Makoto gives the members the uniforms the next day, she simultaneously quits the club and tells Yuria that this was her way of saying sorry for being so bossy and scary before. At the end of the episode, Yuria and Saori are called to the headmaster's office and are told they are suspended from school.	February 6, 2020
5	Betrayal (裏切り Uragiri)	Yuria and Saori are told it is forbidden for students to sell things amongst each other. They get out the situation by claiming they were actually selling in the name of Yuria's parents' shop rather than for themselves. Makoto corners Serena~de, believing that Serena~de told the teachers. Serena~de meets up with them in a noodle place and swears it wasn't her but apologises for trying to sabotage her anyway. Makoto exposes Serena~de's tie as a fake, bought online, and that Serena~de's popularity is based on rumors and lies, which she spread herself. She agrees to model for Yuria and Saori and they receive hundreds over orders, but then a twitter account run by a boy from the popular boys' school posts about Serena~de's fake tie, calls Saori's fashion sense awful and exposes Yuria's family debt problems, so everyone quickly cancels their orders. The famous talent Tororo-chan (Iguchi Mao) suddenly comes to school and says that her sister Okada Ichigo (Sasaki Mirei) forgot lunch at school. Tororo recognises Yuria and Saori's brand DASADA and mentions that her and Ichigo overheard everything they talked about yesterday at the noodle place because it belongs to their father. Saori realises that it was Ichigo who revealed all those secrets and it ends with Saori attacking Ichigo.	February 13, 2020
6	Crack (亀裂 Kiretsu)	Makoto suggests to the others that they should participate in a 'Designer Under 20' contest to get new buyers for the brand. Tororo brings Ichigo to Yuria's home and tries to get her to apologise, but Ichigo refuses. Yuria says it's fine if she doesn't say it as long as she feels sorry, and asks her to join DASADA as the marketing agent. Just then, the debt collector comes in together with his follower and Saori. Saori had asked him to extend the deadline for the debt on Yuria's family, and he has now come to tell them to stay away from his daughter. Saori stops designing for DASADA, but the other girls use her design book to create at least one of the designs for the contest. Yuria keeps her updated with messages but Saori never opens them. Eventually, when they're done with the design, Saori opens the chat. When the girls get to Yuria's home that day, Saori has delivered a new design book, having added one more feature to the finished design. Yuria runs to Saori's home and asks her to come back to DASADA, but when she looks up, Saori has disappeared. However, at home, Saori tells her father that she doesn't want to stop and begs him to let her go back to DASADA. He tells her if she really wants to do something, she shouldn't beg for it and smiles encouragingly. She runs after Yuria, who has returned home and they hug each other while crying. The next day, the five of them – Yuria, Saori, Makoto, Serena~de and Ichigo – get ready for the contest.	February 20, 2020
7	Friends (友だち Tomodachi)	Yurika and Nanao feel abandoned by Yuria. Meanwhile, the girls were disqualified from the contest for starting a paint war. They argue a lot but eventually make up again because of Yuria's positivity and intend to continue working hard. Ichigo tries coming up with ideas to make the brand gain popularity: they go around school promoting, Serena~de wears the clothes at a professional photoshoot and Ichigo's sister Tororo records a video for them, but nothing works. Miki (Ushio Sarina and Kurumi (Nibu Akari) ask Serena~de why she keeps helping Yuria, and Serena~de tells them they don't have to pretend to be her friends anymore; they tell her they will always be friends. Yurika and Nanao witness the scene and decide to make up with Yuria, so Nanao orders 2 pieces from DASADA's website. Yurika, who is good at makeup, and Nanao, who is good at hair styling, join the group and help them set up a professional photoshoot to showcase the brand's identity, but again no orders. The next day, Saori wakes Yuria up because of people at the door and Ichigo finds that they have 8,000 online orders – when a customer shows them a photo posted on instagram by the idol group FACTORY wearing the DASADA clothing.	February 27, 2020
8	Speculation (思惑 Omowaku)	It turns out, Pondy (the foreigner cooking for Yuria's family) ran into Tororo-chan at a studio because he was delivering food to his former boss's son. All three of them happened to wear DASADA t-shirts, and coincidentally, DASADA's first customer also happened to be there. The members of FACTORY saw them and asked for shirts as well. After DASADA's sudden success, the girls receive extra help from a PR Advisor. He gives Yuria advice on how to move forward with the brand from now on, and she recruits Satsuki (Kanemura Miku) and Sumire (Kamimura Hinano) to help out as well. Yuria becomes really serious about making DASADA "the real deal," and impressed with her drive, Saori pushes herself to come up with a new design. After the PR Advisor tells Yuria that the design isn't great and Yuria asks Saori for another design, Saori can't think of anything. The girls are told they are supposed to be at the next TGC (Tokyo Girls Collection), and they need their next design ready. Saori struggles, when she suddenly receives a private message from FACTORY's Ochoko. When she meets up with Ochoko, Ochoko asks her to join FACTORY.	March 5, 2020
9	Farewell (別れ Wakare)		March 12, 2020
10	Inevitably (必然 Omowaku)		March 19, 2020

General Information

• This is Hinatazaka46's first drama as Hinatazaka46.
  • Some members starred in Keyakizaka46's Re:Mind when they were still known as Hiragana Keyakizaka46.

Trivia

• The name DASADA is a pun on the main character's name, Sada Yuria, and the Japanese word for lame, ダサイ (dasai). Usually, adjectives ending in -i do not have a -da ending attached, but it is sometimes used to sound harsher. In Episode 3, Saori tries to insult Yuria and calls her ダサダ (dasada) and Yuria, being the airhead that she is, thinks it sounds really cool rather than takes offence to it.