Flat Out Tokyo Girl (2012): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 2012, Flat Out Tokyo Girl is a drama series.

What it’s about. 19-year-old Saeki Rei (Takei Emi) comes to Tokyo. Rei’s redeeming traits are her cheerfulness and distinctive positivity, but everything she does is always unheard of and unsuccessful. Because this foolhardiness causes trouble to the people around her each time, she ends up being called a girl who is unable to read situations. Rei moves to Tokyo with neither a dream nor goal, and is reunited with her father Suzuki Takuya (Watabe Atsuro) who abandoned her mother and her 15 years ago. Although she opposes her father for making her mother miserable, his dissolute life rouses her into action. “This won’t do. I’ve to make this person happy or I can’t move on with my own life!” And so, she runs about with the aim of getting her father remarried in her first experience living in Tokyo. With cheerfulness and positivity, she overcomes various difficulties and slowly changes the people around her too.

Who’s in it. Flat Out Tokyo Girl stars Manami Higa as Hanako Serizawa, Emi Takei as Rei Saeki, Atsuro Watabe as Takuya Suzuki and Shohei Miura as Daisuke Tamagawa, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 7.6/10, Flat Out Tokyo Girl has been warmly received by audiences.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Flat Out Tokyo Girl page.

If you liked it. Fans of Flat Out Tokyo Girl tend to enjoy Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba and Attack on Titan.