In 2014, she portrayed the main heroine Tonko Morinaga in the live-action TV drama adaptation of Kazuhiko Shimamoto’s semi-autobiographical manga Aoi Honoo, also directed by the Gintama live-action series’ Yuichi Fukuda, and portrayed Maetel for the drama.
This is the second time for Yamamoto to play the iconic heroine character.
The official Twitter for Gintama 2 – Yo nimo Kimyouna Gintama-chan (The Strange and Unusual Gintama-chan), the second original web drama based on Hideaki Sorachi’s action comedy manga series, announced today that 26-year-old actress Mizuki Yamamoto appears as Maetel, the main heroine of Leiji Yamamoto’s long-running space adventure manga Galaxy Express 999, with her visuals of the character.