Ai Takabe


Ai Takabe is a Japanese former actress and voice actress. She is best known for starring as Fumiyo Nabekura in television series Guren Onna and voicing Agiri Goshiki in anime television series Kill Me Baby.

Career

Ai Takabe won the Gravure Award at the 10th Japan Bishōjo Contest in August 2004. The following month, she joined Bishōjo Club 31, an idol group composed of Japan Bishōjo Contest winners. In May 2005, she won the Grand Prix award at the 1st Miss WPB Contest.
Takabe's first acting role was in the 2006 P&G Pantene Drama Special: True Love. She played a lacrosse player and acted alongside Yui Aragaki. She also played various minor roles in Gachi Baka, Teru Teru Ashita, Shimokita Sundays, and Kosodate no Tensai.
In October 2007, she played a supporting character in the television series Flight Panic. In 2008, Takabe played the leading role in Guren Onna, as a high school teacher who dresses up as the ghost of a murder victim.
Takabe was also affiliated with Oscar Promotion, until 2015.

Personal life

Takabe graduated from Horikoshi High School in 2007. In 2017, Takabe married a well-respected attorney.

Arrest

On October 15, 2015, Ai Takabe was arrested for alleged cocaine possession, effectively ending her acting career.
On March 30, 2016, the Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office dropped the charges against her. The PPO reported that the exoneration was not "due to a lack of evidence or condolence," but to a "comprehensive consideration of the very small amount of narcotics in her possession, as well as the social sanctions she has already received."

Filmography

Bold denotes leading roles.

Film

Yoru no Picnic – Ryōko UchiboriWaruboro – SayukiGu-Gu Datte Neko de Aru – KyokoLooking for Anne Liar Game: [The Final Stage] Joshikōsei Zombie – AirinSue, Mai & Sawa: Righting [the Girl Ship] – Chigusa Maeda

Television

True Love – Kana SuzukiGachi Baka – Yūko KageyamaTeru Teru Ashita – Yoshiko YamadaShimokita Sundays – Futaba TadokoroKosodate no Tensai – Miyū KamiyaGuren Onna – Fumiyo NabekuraCat Street – Nako SonodaFukuoka Renai Hakusho Part 4 – Maya EbiharaReset – Sachiko AkigusaMirai wa Bokura no Te no Naka ni – Mika HiguchiArienai! – Miwa YamamotoThe Legend of Yang Guifei – Yuriko WatanabeFreeter, Ie wo Kau – Michiru ToyonakaIhin no Koe o Kiku Otoko 3 – Karin SawaguchiShirato Osamu no Jikenbo – Yumi YanagisawaYo Nimo Kimyō na Monogatari: Dressing Room – Maiko KawaiRenai Kentei – Kako SekineMichinoku Mengui Kisha Miyazawa Kenichirō 2 – Umi AoyamaTada's Do-It-All House – Saya TakeuchiNeo Ultra Q – SecretaryKeishichō Minamidaira Han – Kyōko ShinjōKakushōa – Sayaka HiyamaDepāto Shikake Hito! – Rina HayamaSai Sōsa Keiji Yūsuke Kataoka – Minako KurayoshiBlack President – Misaki TōyamaDekachō – Sakiko InagakiZeimu Chōsakan – Yū TagamiYōjū Mameshiba Bōkyō Hen Hōigaku Kyōshitsu no Jiken File no Tōjō Jinbutsu – Chihiro ShimanukiNishimura Kyōtarō Travel Mystery no Tōjō Jinbutsu – Miyuki TsubakiKyōto Ninjō Sōsa File – Kayo HoshinoMito Kōmon Special – OkoiKonkatsu Keiji – Saori Shinohara

Anime

Aoi Hana – Fumi ManjoumeHourou Musuko – MaikoSacred Seven Kill Me Baby – Agiri GoshikiKill Me Baby OVA – '''Agiri Goshiki'''