Barairo no Seisen: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

30-year-old Miki Makoto is an ordinary housewife struggling with housework and childrearing, but she has always believed in the importance of managing the household over looking beautiful so that her husband, Atsushi can go out to work without any worries. However, his infidelity spurs her to make up her mind to search for her "self" and become beautiful. Choosing the path of an amateur model, she steps into a modelling world that is more rough than she had imagined. Her weapons are her height which has given her an inferiority complex since young, and her extraordinary determination. She keeps having internal conversations with herself as she regains her lost beauty...

Series details

• Title: Barairo no Seisen
• Format: Scripted
• Language: Japanese
• Genres: Drama
• Premiere date: 2011-09-04
• Final broadcast date listed: 2011-10-09
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: TV Asahi
• Network country: Japan
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 37384
• TVDB ID: 258769

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2011-09-04; final listed air date 2011-10-09.

Source and licence

Adapted from Barairo no Seisen on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.