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Your Guide To The J-Pop Cast Of Netflix’s ‘Re:Mind’

By Kayla Cobb @kaylcobb

Published Feb. 27, 2018, 9:30 a.m. ET

**Mirei**
**Played By:** Mirei Sasaki
She's the first one to wake up, and she spends most of the time she's awake freaking out with Sarina.

**Memi**
**Played By:** Memi Kakizaki
The second girl to wake up.

**Sarina**
**Played By:** Sarina Ushio
She's the third one to wake up, and later it's revealed that she's the class representative. She freaks out with Mieri throughout most of her first scenes.

**Ayaka**
**Played By:** Ayaka Takamoto
Another one of the victims, Ayaka sits beside Mei.

**Shiho**
**Played By:** Shiho Kato
Another one of the victims, she tries to break the contraption binding her feet using a candlestick.Photo: Netflix

**Mana Tasake**
**Played By:** Mana
Another one of this trap's many victims as well as one of Miho's classmates.Photo: Netflix

**Kyoko**
**Played By:** Kyoko Saito
The edgiest girl of the bunch, the first thing Kyoko says when she wakes up is that she wants to sleep more. Between that and the cursing, she gives off serious Aubrey Plaza vibes. Photo: Netflix

**Mei**
**Played By:** Mei Higashimura
Initially reluctant to help at first, Mai has short hair and seems more interested in the fate of her dog Toto than how they came to be trapped.

**Mao**
**Played By:** Mao Iguchi
After first noticing the moving armor, Mao is the first girl to disappear.

**Kumi**
**Played By:** Kumi Sasaki
Our unofficial hero, Kumi used to be Miho's best friend. That alliance is pushed to its limits by Kage.Photo: Netflix

**Kage**
**Played By:** Yuuka Kageyama
The mastermind behind this odd trap, Kage reveals herself to be Miho's unknown sister. She trapped Miho's classmates in an attempt to get even with them for bullying Miho.Photo: Netflix

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Netflix has become an unofficial home for odd but great watches, and few shows fit that category better than the streaming service’s latest international thriller — Re:Mind. Created in association with TV Tokyo and Netflix, the drama follows 11 high school girls who wake up after being captured. They don’t know why they’ve been captured, who did it, or what’s in store for them. All they know is that they need to escape — fast.

From there, the series devolves into a mess of finger pointing, revealed secrets, and deceit as these girls begin to tear each other down while trying to escape. It’s a warped psychological series that inverts the sweetness of young female friendships, but there’s another reason why people may want to check this new series out. Its cast is almost entirely composed of the massive Japanese girl group Keyakizaka46.

Whereas most shows spend a decent amount of time introducing and establishing their characters, Re:Mind jumps in straightaway, fully confident that almost all of its viewers know its famous pop stars. That’s actually the conceit of Wood Dora 25, the overarching show the Re:Mind season is part of. Each season of the series takes a different hyper-popular Japanese group and casts them in a different crazy drama. There’s even another Wood Dora 25 season on Netflix — Million Yen Women. For fans of J-pop, these shows are exciting and fun-filled cameos. However, if you don’t know the world of Japanese musical idols, they can be a little bit more complicated. Consider this your brief guide to the 11 members of Keyakizaka46 who appear in Re:Mind.

Stream Re:Mind on Netflix