She was ranked number one in DMM's 2013 Annual AV Actress Ranking and in 2014 won the top prize of Best Actress Platinum Award at the DMM Awards. Her stage name was coined by her manager due to her resemblance to Takako Uehara and Ai Kato. Life and career īorn in Fukuoka and raised in Tokyo, Uehara made her debut in the AV industry in 2011 after being scouted at the age of 19. After a 3-year hiatus, Uehara re-emerged in 2019 as a full-time YouTuber.

In 2015, Uehara announced that she would retire from the industry the following year.

Misato's surname Uehara means 'above, top, upper' (上) ( ue) and 'field, plain' (原) ( hara).Ai Uehara (Japanese: 上原亜衣, Hepburn: Uehara Ai, born November 12, 1992) is a Japanese model, YouTuber and former adult video (AV) idol.Īlthough she was only active in the industry for 5 years, Uehara quickly became known as one of Japan's most popular AV actresses, starring in over 1,000 works throughout her career and winning the Best Actress Platinum Award at the 2014 DMM Awards.

The name Misato means 'beautiful' (美) ( mi) and 'village' (里) ( sato).

His revelation convinces Misuzu to contact her son and ask him to bring Misato home, though Takahiro forces her to take responsibility and bring Misato home herself. When Misuzu is confronted by a SEARCHmagazine photographer named Kurada, he manages to learn Misuzu's reasons for abandoning Nana when he reveals how Misato ran away and was spotted in Tokyo. Chikage tells Takahiro where Misato is and asks him to bring her back home. She is found by Shion, who informs Yasu and Chikage (Misato's friend) of Misato's whereabouts. When Misato learns that her mother is also Nana's mother and abandoned her when Nana was a child, she runs away to Tokyo after her mother disappears. to her grandmother when Nana was just a child. However, Mai has said that it is not a good idea for Nana and Misato to become too close because they share the same mother and Misato's mother abandoned Nana O. Upon Misato's appearance, the first ' Misato Uehara,' Mai Tsuzuki, suggests Yasushi Takagi's suspicions regarding why she chose the alias 'Misato Uehara' in order to become close to Nana are correct, though she does not confirm it. Known as '(Misato) Number Two' by Nana, Misato appears before Nana at a special 'thank you' concert for Blast's fans. She also has an older brother named Takahiro and lives in Osaka, where her parents own an okonomiyaki shop.

Though she bares a striking similarity to Nana, she is unaware of her true relationship with Nana and ironically became one of her newer devoted fans.

Misato Uehara (上原美里 Uehara Misato), known by fans as the ' real Misato Uehara', is Nana Osaki's maternal half-sister by Misuzu Uehara (Nana and Misato's mother).

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