Kaori Manabe

Manabe went from Yokohama National University into gravure and television, an odd pair of credentials. Then came the blog. Before anyone in Japan said "social media", she was writing loosely in her own voice and pulling a readership big enough to get her called the Queen of Blogs. That template worked because nobody was writing it for her.

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Name (English)

Kaori Manabe

Name (Japanese)

眞鍋かをり

Reading

まなべ かをり

Born

May 31, 1980 (age 46)

Origin

Saijo, Ehime Prefecture, Japan

Occupation

tarento

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Gemini / Monkey

Blood type

A

Agency

（2021 -）オールラウンド

Active years

1999 -

University

Yokohama National University

Spouse

吉井和哉

Works summary

Appearances

226 (1999–2026)

By year

1999: 5, 2000: 20, 2001: 12, 2002: 11, 2003: 20, 2004: 11, 2005: 18, 2006: 23, 2007: 20, 2008: 15, 2009: 12, 2010: 2, 2011: 8, 2012: 11, 2013: 1, 2014: 1, 2015: 5, 2016: 4, 2017: 2, 2018: 1, 2019: 4, 2020: 1, 2021: 2, 2022: 2, 2023: 2, 2024: 1, 2025: 2, 2026: 1

Debut work

BOON!

Filmography / notable works

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/wo_0531/
• Xhttps://x.com/KaworiM0531
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaori%20Manabe
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%9C%9E%E9%8D%8B%E3%81%8B%E3%82%92%E3%82%8A
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q907547

Tags

• Ehime Prefecture
• tarento

Last updated

September 18, 2026

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Works and profile fields sourced from Wikipedia reflect content as of 2026-08-26. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.