So Long! (Special Drama) is a special three-segment drama featuring the AKB48 Senbatsu members for the single So long! as the central characters. The story was divided into three parts for each of Teams A, K, and B.
Cast
- Synopsis
Kawakami Fukaba is the only remaining member of the Broadcasting Club. While she was cleaning the clubroom, she encountered a strange cassette player that connects her to another member of the club 8 years earlier.
- Team A Cast
- Main Characters
- Watanabe Mayu - Kawakami Fukaba
- Shinoda Mariko - Hara Kirie
- Takahashi Minami - Koga Akane
- Yokoyama Yui - Tsuda Tomoe
- Kawaei Rina - Makino Riko (ballet classmate)
- Iriyama Anna - Miyauchi Yuki (ballet classmate)
- Tano Yuka - Inoue Mako (ballet classmate)
- Supporting Characters
- Izuta Rina
- Iwata Karen
- Kikuchi Ayaka
- Kotani Riho
- Kobayashi Marina
- Sato Sumire
- Takahashi Juri
- Nakatsuka Tomomi
- Nakamata Shiori
- Nito Moeno
- Matsui Sakiko
- Morikawa Ayaka
- Non-AKB Cast
- Main Characters
- Ishii Momoka - young Kawakami Fukaba
- Suga Kenta - Morisawa Naozumi
- Osugi Ren - Suzuki Teruo
- Supporting Characters
- Nishihara Nobuhiro
- Motohashi Yuka
- Kojima Ichika - Sae (Kawakami Fukaba's former friend in 2005)
- Yoneyama Miku - (Kawakami Fukaba's former friend in 2005)
- Hirata Saori (Tokyo City Ballet)
- Koto Mai (Tokyo City Ballet)
- Matsumoto Kaori (Tokyo City Ballet)
- Synopsis
Miho is annoyed at her younger sister Tsubasa, who is trying to make her participate in a piano competition. Unknown to Miho, Tsubasa is hiding something from her.
- Team K Cast
- Main Characters
- Supporting Characters
- Sato Amina
- Abe Maria
- Nakata Chisato
- Nagao Mariya
- Matsubara Natsumi
- Kuramochi Asuka
- Kobayashi Kana
- Uchida Mayumi
- Muto Tomu
- Maeda Ami
- Miyazaki Miho
- Fujita Nana
- Non-AKB Cast
- Main Characters
- Supporting Characters
- Synopsis
Asuka keeps a blog titled "Tsuki ga nai Sora" (Moonless Sky), where she writes about all her problems. The only person who comments on the blog is called Spaceboy (6B6), and seems to know more about Asuka than anyone in her class.
- Team B Cast
- Main Characters
- Shimazaki Haruka - Hashimoto Asuka
- Kojima Haruna - Komiyama
- Minegishi Minami - Watase Mitsuki
- Watanabe Miyuki - Kanda Saki
- Kashiwagi Yuki - Goto Midori
- Supporting Characters
- Yamauchi Suzuran
- Kato Rena - Aya
- Fujie Reina - Andou Misato
- Katayama Haruka - Eguchi Kanako
- Nakamura Mariko
- Komori Mika
- Ichikawa Miori
- Takeuchi Miyu
- Ishida Haruka
- Iwasa Misaki
- Nonaka Misato
- Umeda Ayaka
- Oba Mina
- AKB48 Kenkyuusei
- Non-AKB Cast
- Main Characters
- Supporting Characters
Trivia
- Sashihara Rino, Yamamoto Sayaka, and Matsui Rena were the only Senbatsu members of So long! who did not appear in any of the drama episodes, because they're not part of Teams A, K, and B.
- In Team B Episode, the blog contains hidden terms denoting Mitsuki (tsuki, moon), Asuka (a play on the name Asuka: "a sukai", can be read as "a sky" or "sora"), and Komiyama-sensei (Spaceboy, students call her 'alien').
- AKB48 Kenkyuusei appeared only in the Team B episode.
- Some elements of the stories have distinct similarities to Sakura Kara no Tegami.
- Kawakami Fukaba (played by Watanabe Mayu) mentioned that she had a best friend named "Sae".
- Miho (played by Oshima Yuko) was having a hard time balancing her feelings between finding a job and taking care of Tsubasa (played by Matsui Jurina); in Sakura Kara no Tegami, Maeda Atsuko played a slightly similar role, as she was torn between choosing between her resentment towards her father and her concern for him.
- The homeroom teacher, Komiyama (played by Kojima Haruna), was suffering from an incurable ailment.
External Link
- So Long! (Special Drama) in Wikipedia (Japan)