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Mayu Watanabe

Mayu Watanabe

Acting

Biography

Mayu Watanabe is a Japanese former singer, actress, and former member of the Japanese idol girl group AKB48 under Team B. In the annual AKB48 General Elections event, she had consistently been voted by fans to rank among the group's top members.

Known For

AKBINGO!
9.0

AKBINGO! is a long-running variety show featuring Japanese idol group AKB48. Its opening theme song was the AKB48 single "Aitakatta" until 2016, when it was changed to an instrumental jingle. In each episode, members from AKB48, and sometimes its sister groups, participate in a series of games and activities. The show was hosted by owarai comedy duo Bad Boys, Omizo Kiyoto and Sata Masaki, until they were replaced by Woman Rush Hour, Muramoto Daisuke & Nakagawa Paradise, in July 2016. The show aired on "late night" Wednesdays until it was moved to "late night" Tuesdays in April 2013.

AKBINGO!

2008
AKB0048
5.8

AKB0048, sometimes stylized AKB∞48, is a 2012 Japanese anime television series based on the popular AKB48 idol group. The anime is produced by Satelight, with Shōji Kawamori as chief director and writer. The first season aired in Japan between April and July 2012 whilst the second season aired between January and March 2013.

AKB0048

2012
Majisuka Academy
7.5

Two transfer students, Atsuko Maeda and Onizuka Daruma came at the all-girls school Majisuka Gakuen. In this school violence and fighting are common among the Yankee students. Noisy and trouble maker Daruma made a fuss as soon as she entered the school, win in her first fight but then was beaten easily by another gang shortly after. In contrary to Daruma's bold-but-powerless attitude, Maeda who is truthfully a strong girl despite of her silent nature found Daruma is beaten by Team Hormon before her. The word "Majisuka?" (means are you serious?) instantly awaken her true nature and made her won the battle against Daruma's attackers easily, thus made a big fuss at the school and the news even reached the strongest fighting group, Rappapa. Afterwards, Daruma acknowledged Maeda as her boss and as a result the friendship between the two girls began to grow along with their fights with fellow students at their school.

Majisuka Academy

2010
AKBラブナイト 恋工場
N/A

No description available.

AKBラブナイト 恋工場

2016
Sailor Zombie
8.0

Sailor Zombie was a TV-Tokyo Drama which featured members of AKB48 in its main casts, some of their guests are also from AKB48. It's title theme song Sailor Zombie was sung by the sub-unit Milk Planet who are also in the Drama as narrators.

Sailor Zombie

2014
Crow's Blood
7.0

As science is growing ever closer to the taboo field of regenerative medicine, a mysterious new student named Maki Togawa begins attending the International Dolly Girls' College. Soon after, a series of strange and horrific events occur in and around the school, seemingly in the proximity of or due to new student Maki.

Crow's Blood

2016
Fight! Bookstore Girl
6.8

Pegasus Bookstore is going through hard times due to competition from internet bookstores. Kitamura Aki and Nishioka Riko are employees at Pegasus Bookstore. Aki is 23 years old. She has a strong will and freewheeling personality. She places her job and dreams above marriage. Riko is a 40-year-old single woman. She is the vice-manager at the bookstore. She has pride in her work. The two women have completely different personalities.

Fight! Bookstore Girl

2015
So Long!
7.3

AKB48 Drama split in 3 parts for each team Team A story: 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 K story: 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 B story: 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.

So Long!

2013
Psychic School Wars
6.6

It's a new school year at the local Junior High School i Kamakura. The school year starts off with a new transfer student Ryoichi Kyogoku who joins the 8th grade class. He has been ordered to join the school, and use his special gift of telepathy and take over their school. This boy who happens to be handsome, and be a charismatic person, gains popularity, and using his powers takes over the entire school, except for Seki. This begins a war to regain their freedom for their school and themselves.

Psychic School Wars

2012
Pikachu, What's This Key?
6.3

Appearing before Pikachu and friends is the keyring Pokemon, Klefki. Inserting a mysteriously shaped key into the keyhole floating in the air, a very mysterious portal appears! Klefki has the key to go to various worlds. What kind of world will the key that Pikachu holds lead to?

Pikachu, What's This Key?

2014
Ooku: Saikyou no Onna / Higeki no Shimai
1.0

Sawajiri Erika acting as different Edo-era concubines in each episode.

Ooku: Saikyou no Onna / Higeki no Shimai

2016
AKB48 in TOKYO DOME ~1830m no Yume~
7.0

AKB48 in TOKYO DOME ~1830 no Yume~ is AKB48 's Tokyo Dome concert held from August 24 to 26, 2012. The DVD and Blu-Ray released of “AKB48 in TOKYO DOME ~1830m no Yume~” will be available in three versions: the SINGLE SELECTION which only includes performances of the group's single releases, and the SPECIAL BOX in both Limited and Regular Edition which includes all 3-day performances in 6 discs and making-of and bonus video footage, comes with five photos, and a 132-page booklet.

AKB48 in TOKYO DOME ~1830m no Yume~

2012
Documentary of AKB48 To Be Continued
N/A

This documentary follows the unstoppable all-female Japanese idol group, AKB48. With a complicated balance of competition and friendship among the members, their bond is strong. The footage was taken from over 1000 hours of recorded videos throughout 2010 and includes personal interviews with select members revealing each of the girls' struggle, joy, growth, and dream.

Documentary of AKB48 To Be Continued

2011
メグたんって魔法つかえるの?
N/A

No description available.

メグたんって魔法つかえるの?

2012
Ōoku
N/A

No description available.

Ōoku

2016
Deceiving Idol
7.2

The story revolves around the 38-year-old Shijimi Usa (Watanabe), who is a high school classical literature teacher. Her students are mean to her, but they do not realize that she has another identity. Outside of school, she lies about her age to be active as the super popular 17-year-old Idol Singer Mayu Watanabe, whom the students adore. The show aired on TV Tokyo on Fridays starting from January 13, 2012 to April 7, 2012 with 12 episodes.

Deceiving Idol

2012
Letters from a Sakura Tree
7.3

A soon-to-be-graduating girls, in high school, find out that their homeroom teacher is terminally ill. He writes each of them inexplicit letters. While they encounter various difficulties in their senior year those letters will help them to resolves their personal issues and grow to be better persons and friends.

Letters from a Sakura Tree

2011
Sashihara Rino Graduation Concert 〜Sayonara Sashihara Rino〜
N/A

Sashihara Rino Graduation Concert 〜Sayonara Sashihara Rino〜 (〜指原莉乃 卒業コンサート ~さよなら、指原莉乃〜) is Sashihara Rino's graduation concert. This concert was held at Yokohama Stadium on April 28, 2019.

Sashihara Rino Graduation Concert 〜Sayonara Sashihara Rino〜

2019
Kishu Hanshu Yoshimune
N/A

Before Tokugawa Yoshimune, known as the "Ravage Shogun", was the lord of the Kishu domain, before he became the shogun! Yoshimune hides his identity and begins an investigation in the city of Edo in order to find out who he really is. As he grows up, he ends up throwing himself into a turmoil involving the shogunate... This is an entertainment historical drama in which a young 21-year-old named Yoshimune solves the problems of the common people in the city and goes around dealing with merchants and powerful people plotting evil deeds.

Kishu Hanshu Yoshimune

2019
Documentary of AKB48 Reason for Existence
6.3

The movie focuses on the the graduation of the the previous General Manager Takahashi Minami and now Yokoyama Yui taking over. Furthermore, the sister groups HKT48 and NMB48 are gaining popularity. Also NGT48 make their debut and the rival group Nogizaka46 become a bigger and more threatening rival.

Documentary of AKB48 Reason for Existence

2016