Misato Maeda

Misato Maeda is a Japanese gravure idol and actress known for her gravure work, her time in the idol unit Snow Drops, and her selection as a Nippon TV Genic in 2014.

After being chosen as a Nippon TV Genic in June 2014, she formed the idol unit Snow Drops, which released a single that year before disbanding in September 2016. She left her agency in March 2017 and later spent about a year in office work at an advertising company. In March 2018 she joined First Line, releasing an image video in January 2019, and in August 2020 she won the Young Animal × LINE LIVE gravure audition.

From September 2024 she appeared in a radio programme on TBS Podcast. In January 2025 she joined Junpro after her previous agency dissolved and held a self-produced photo exhibition, 'Britain Travel Record', at Social Tokyo in Shibuya. She left Junpro on 30 November 2025 and now works as a freelancer. In December 2025 she appeared as a ghost character in the TBS variety show Wednesday Downtown's 'Detective Tsuda' segment.

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