Soar High! (舞いあがれ!, Maiagare!) is a Japanese television drama series and the 107th Asadora series, following Chimudondon. It premiered on October 3, 2022, and concluded on March 31, 2023. Haruka Fukuhara was cast in the lead role of Mai Iwakura after an audition of 2545 women.
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Cast
Iwakura's family
Haruka Fukuhara as Mai Iwakura
Haro Asano as young Mai
Katsunori Takahashi as Kōta Iwakura, Mai's father
Hiromi Nagasaku as Megumi iwakura, Mai's mother
You Yokoyama as Haruto Iwakura, Mai's brother
Saion Ebizuka as young Haruto
Atsuko Takahata as Shōko Saitsu, Mai's grandmother and Megumi's mother
Mai's childhood friends
Eiji Akaso as Takashi Umezu, Okonomiyaki restaurant "Umezu" owner's son
Kento Saitō as young Takashi
Mizuki Yamashita as Kurumi Mochizuki, Mai's classmate
Saki Ōno as young Kurumi
Higashiosaka people
Tomomitsu Yamaguchi as Masaru Umezu, Okonomiyaki restaurant "Umezu" owner, Takashi's father
Rie Kawabata as Yukino Umezu, Okonomiyaki restaurant "Umezu" landlady, Takashi's mother
Kanji Furutachi as Hisayuki Kasamaki, a worker at the factory run by Kōta
Naoki Matayoshi as Iwao Yagi, the owner of second-hand bookstore "Derashine"
Satoru Matsuo as Yoshiharu Mochizuki, Kurumi's father and former rugby player
Seiko Takuma as Michiko Tsuda, a hostess of the café where Mai and Kurumi are working part-time
Goto Peninsula people
Show Aikawa as Gō Kido, a shipwright
Kosuke Suzuki as Shingo Ura, an office staff
Neru Nagahama as Sakura Yamanaka, a woman selling jam made by Sachiko at the shop
Naniwa Birdman seniors
Mahiro Takasugi as Hirofumi Kariya, 3rd year university student who is in charge of designing the human-powered aircraft "Swan"
Ayako Yoshitani as Fūko Yura, 2nd year university student who is a pilot of the human-powered aircraft "Swan"
Suguru Adachi as Aoi Tsuruta, 3rd year university student who is a circle representative
Aviation school people
Ren Meguro as Hiroaki Kashiwagi, an elite who grew up in an aviation family
Hirona Yamazaki as Rinko Yano, a returnee who worked at a trading company
Shogo Hama as Shinichi Nakazawa, a man who quit his job because he could not give up on his dream of becoming a pilot
Kotaro Daigo as Taisei Yoshida, a man who goes to school on a scholarship
Hiroki Sano as Yūki Mizushima, Mizushima Store president's son
Kōji Kikkawa as Mamoru Ōkōchi, an aviation instructor