VIVANT Casts Ichisaki Nishida as Young Adiel in Episode 24
Episode 24 of TBS's VIVANT showed a boyhood version of Adiel, played by 16-year-old Ichisaki Nishida, who appeared in the final episode of NHK's 2026 first-half morning drama Kaze, Kaoru.
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Why it matters
The casting lands a morning-drama face inside a prime-time Sunday drama's flashback, and viewers picked up on it in the same episode that closed out Adiel's backstory.
Key Facts
- Episode 24 of TBS's VIVANT aired a flashback of Adiel as a boy, played by Ichisaki Nishida.
- Ichisaki Nishida is 16 and played the grown-up Akira in the final episode of NHK's Kaze, Kaoru.
- The flashback shows the young Adiel bringing water from a cave to Nogoon Beki, played by Kento Hayashi, and his group in the Ad Desert.
- Nishida posted off-shot photos from the filming on Instagram after the episode aired.
The flashback shows the young Adiel carrying water from a cave to save Nogoon Beki, played by Kento Hayashi, and his group in the Ad Desert. Nishida posted filming photos on Instagram after the episode aired.
Nishida is 16 and played the grown-up Akira, son of Naomi Ogawa (Juri Uesaka), in the final episode of Kaze, Kaoru. In VIVANT's episode 24, the flashback places the boy Adiel about five years after Tent's founding, when Beki (Kento Hayashi) and his group flee into the Ad Desert pursued by a Kazakh organization. Cut off from water and food, they prepare for death until Adiel arrives with water drawn from the cave where he later hid the disk.
After the broadcast, Nishida wrote on Instagram that he had watched the first season and called working on the show a treasure. Viewers' comments, as gathered in the report, focused on his resemblance to the adult Adiel and on his face.
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