Atelier (TV series)

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Atelier (Japanese title Underwear) is a Japanese television drama developed by Fuji Television for Netflix.[1][2] It is a coming of age drama set in a small high-class lingerie design house called Emotion, which is based in Tokyo's Ginza district. The drama centres around Mayuko Tokita, a new employee, and her struggle to find her place at Emotion.[3][4]

Central to that struggle is her relationship with Mayumi Nanjo the creator and owner of Emotion, who has been compared to Anna Wintour, an editor of American Vogue.[5]

Cast and Characters

The main cast includes:[6][7]

  • Mirei Kiritani as Mayuko Tokita a "fabric geek" who joins Emotion in the first episode.
  • Mao Daichi as Mayumi Nanjo, the founder and president of Emotion. She eschews mass production in favour of one-off and limited production.
  • Mayuko Kawakita as Yuri Kouno, best friend of Mayuko who works for a wedding dress company and started work the same day as Mayuko.
  • Wakana Sakai as Mizuki Nishizawa, a senior lingerie designer at Emotion.
  • Ken Kaito as Jin Saruhashi, the office manager. Cool on the outside, he joined Emotion because he was passionate about the way Nanjo did business.
  • Maiko as Fumikaoru Iida, a senior lingerie designer at Emotion, who leaves the company to join one of their competitors.
  • Masako Chiba as Reiko Tanaka, Nanjo's most trusted employee, who also takes Mayuko under her wing when she first arrives at the company.
  • Dori Sakurada as Himeji Sousuke, assistant to Jin.
  • Nicole Ishida as Sarikoromo Machida, a down on her luck model, who Mayuko befriends. Later in season one, Machida finds success as a supermodel.

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