This is a story about ten sisters
who speant there lives fighting evil by moonlight
and winning love by daylight.
eventually, nine of the sisters had retired from the fight.
This is to story of the final sister.
The first day of filming coincidently fell on my nineteenth birthday. The months leading up to that day just flew by. I couldn't contain my excitement the night before and had trouble sleeping. Luckily, a goddess of love and beauty such as myself knows how to always look like she got her beauty sleep!
I spent ages trying to decide what to wear. I mean, I would be changing into a costume once I got there but I still wanted to dress to impress. I ended up going to the shrine and borrowing some of Rei's clothes. She's normally annoyed when I do that kind of thing but she held it all in today since it's my first big acting role. She let my borrow some cute jeans she had only just bought. They were a little to tight for me since Rei is pretty tiny but they still looked hot.
I was super excited to see the rest of the cast. I had made friends with the girls who were playing my (Linda's) sisters. Wendy, the oldest sister who doesn't appear that much but is super popular with the fans is played by a 28 year old award winning Actress, Meiko Setsuo. Tilly the next sister is played by the former member of the popular idol group Nippon10, Haruna nouzaki who is trying to make a comeback after being caught having a relationship with a much older man! (How scandelous!). The bext three sisters are played by Kanon, Karin and Kei who are sisters in real life and are popular as gravure idols.
The next four girls are played by newcomers like me and I was closest to them. There names are Sayumi, Saki, Maria and Reiko. Reiko and Maria despite playing my older sisters are actually younger than me and still in high school so I act like an older sister to them in real life. Reiko is a little moody and dreams to become an enka singer when she's older (and she's got a damn good voice!). Saki and Sayuki are just a bit older than me and can empathise with the constant plight of an actress trying to make it big.
Anyway, I have yet to be indtroduced to the guy playing coattail mask. His name is Hikaru Chen and is an upcoming actor in China (he is of mixed japanese and chinese heritage). I promised Saki that I wouldn't look him up online so we can meet just like Aurora Linda and Coattail Mask meet in the manga.
So here I am on set (filming hasn't started yet) waiting for Saki and the mysterious Hikaru Chen. did I mention how gorgeous the set is? I didn't imagine they could recreate the beautiful Aurora Wedding Bridal shop just like it is in the manga (hell, it's even better than the manga!).
In the story, Coattail Mask's secret identity Daisuke comes to the shop with a delivery of new products. So I sit down near the till and wait for him and Saki to show up. A few minutes later, I hear Saki's giggling and a gentle knocking on the door. They knock a little to hard and the set creaks a little. I can't help but smile to myself.
I lay my head on the desk and pretend to be asleep (like Linda does in the manga). I hear the door open and someone walks in. He clearly hasn't read the manga since Saki is whispering to him what to do. I feel the desk shift a little as he puts down the "deliveries". I feel his hand on my shoulder. Saki whispers something to him and he repeats in. "Excuse me, do you know where I can find Miss Evangeligeli?" He pronounces "Evangeligeli" wrong (who can blame him and I can't help but smile a little.
I opened my eyes to see him for the first time. He was blushing and Saki was grinning like the cheshire cat beside him. That image is permanently burnt into my retinas (in a good way!). His hair is a pale whitey blondey colour (clearly dyed) and his eyes were a dark muddy brown. Our eyes met and he smiled a huge, cheesy smile.
"Hi" He said like our meeting was the most ordianary thing in the world. I don't remember if I said "hi" back or not but I assume I must of said something because by the end of the day Hikaru Chen had entered my circle of friends.
