
Yumena Yanai
Acting
Biography
Yumena Yanai is a Japanese actress and model from Koriyama, Fukushima Prefecture. Her first TV drama role was Cheer☆Dan (aka We Are Rockets!; チア☆ダン; 2018) along side Laid-Back Camp live-action TV drama co-star Sara Shida and Season 2 co-star Anna Ishii (portrayed Ayano Toki). Her first movie role was in Snow Flower (aka Yuki no Hana; 雪の華 ; 2019). She portrays Aoi Inuyama in the Laid-Back Camp live-action TV drama and it is her first full time main role.
Born: June 21, 2000
Place of Birth: Fukushima Prefecture, Japan
Known For

Passion for Punchlines
May 31, 2021—as COVID-19 continued to spread, Masayasu Wakabayashi and Ryota Yamasato were on stage in front of an empty house getting ready for their live stream show. Although they’re from different comedy duos, The Nankai Candies and Audrey, they decided to create Tarinai Futari to perform new jokes about their complexes. Their final show is today.

Yuru Camp△
This is the story of a winter day. Kagamihara Nadeshiko, a female high school student who moved from Shizuoka to Yamanashi, rode a bicycle to see Mt. Fuji, but unfortunately, the weather was cloudy and Mt. Fuji cannot be seen. Tired, Nadeshiko falls asleep on the spot and wakes up at night. This is her first time going there and she didn't know how to return. Fortunately, Shima Rin, a girl who loves camping, saves her. They lit a bonfire to warm up and the sound of the blazing firewood permeates the silence of the lake.

A Bad Summer
Sasaki is a sincere civil servant, working at city hall. Due to his timid personality, he can't properly deal with nasty people, including a single mother on the verge of giving up her own child, another civil servant pressing him to have a physical relationship, and a person who receives welfare benefits unfairly. His passivity leads him to get caught up in a terrible crime.

Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom
With graduation 10 days away, homeroom teacher Hiiragi gathered all 29 students of class 3-A and proclaims them his hostages. His last lesson regards the death of a student that passed away a few months before. Nobody will be able to graduate until the truth is known.

Heart Beats
When Tsukasa was a middle school student, she had a crush on transfer student Hayato and even confessed her feelings to him. She was turned down by Hayato. Now, Tsukasa and Hayato are classmates in high school. Hayato treats Tsukasa as just a friend, but Tsukasa still has feelings for him. Meanwhile, Hayato becomes attracted to Tsukasa.

My Second Aoharu
Shiratama Sayako has never experienced much good luck. Since she was a child, she dreamed of becoming an architect. She studied hard, but she repeatedly failed her university entrance exams. Now, she is 30 years old and works in a field far away from her ideal job. One day, she happens to meet mysterious university student Ogasawara Taku. She tells him about her past dream of becoming an architect. Ogasawara Taku tells her that it is never too late and that she can still get accepted into a university. Inspired by their talk, Shiratama Sayako decides to study once again for her university entrance exams. After she studies so hard, she finally gets accepted into a university. There, Shiratama Sayako meets Ogasawara Taku again, who is a senior in the architecture department.

Snow Flower
A terminally ill girl, who dreams of going to Finland to see the northern lights, falls in love

High & Low The Worst
The street fighters of Oya High and the delinquent brawlers of Housen Academy face off against each other when both seemingly attack each other.

We Are Rockets!
Wakaba is a 2nd grade high school student in Fukui Prefecture, Japan. When Wakaba was little, she admired the cheerleading club "JETS” from Fukui Chuo High School in Fukui Prefecture. She dreamed of joining the "JETS,” but she thought it was impossible for her to join and enrolled at another high school. One day, a transfer student from Tokyo talks to Wakaba and proposes "let's do cheer dance together."

Black School Rules
Sōra is a 2nd-grade high school student, but he is virtually invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya. Chūya's personality is completely different from Sōra. Chūya does unpredictable things and that surprises those around him. Sōra and Chūya both have feelings for the same girl at their school. The girl refuses to attend school, because she doesn't want to change her brown hair to black. Their school has unreasonable rules, including requiring all students to have black hair. For the girl that Sōra and Chūya like, they stand up to change their school's black school rules.
Filmography
as Kotori Ogata
as Rika
as Nishio Futaba
as Asada Sumika
as Sayaka
as WakabaYashi Mai
as Hina
as Kaoru Itou
as Moe Maya
as Yuna Nakamura
as Hana Morimura
as Hoshikawa Yayoi
as Aoi Inuyama
as Nadeshiko
as Kirari Kamaisaka
as Ueda Yui
as Hatsumi Watabiki
as Misaki Yuki
as Honoka Tachibana