Age: 28
female
Nozomi Bando is a Japanese dancer, fashion model, and actress who is a member of Flower and E-girls, former model for Hanachu and an exclusive model for Seventeen. Bando is represented by LDH. She is the youngest member of Flower. Bando was born in Tokyo in 1997. She has an older brother. From the age of three, Bando started to learn classical ballet and attended Masako Ono Ballet Studio during her second grade in elementary school. She also started hip-hop dancing during her fifth year in elementary school and attended the Exile Professional Gym (EXPG) in Tokyo. In 2010, Bando made her model debut in the fashion magazine Hanachu and served as an exclusive model until she went on hiatus on the following year. In 2011, she passed the dance performance department of the Exile Presents Vocal Battle Audition 3: For Girls, and became a member of Flower and E-girls. Bando also been in the vocal department but was eliminated in the primary screening. Later in August, she became an exclusive model in the fashion magazine Seventeen after she passed the Miss Seventeen 2011 audition along with Shinkawa Yua, Nakajo Ayumi, and Hashizume Ai. On October 12, Flower made their debut with the single "Still". The song was a problem during its audition. In July 2012, Bando made her acting debut in the Kansai Telecasting Corporation series GTO. In April 2015, she graduated from the magazine Seventeen, ending her work as an exclusive model for the magazine. On September 30, 2019, she left Flower with the group's disbandment, remaining as a member of E-girls. On December 22, with the announcement of E-girls' disbandment set for around the end of 2020, it was revealed that Bando would focus on acting and modelling activities.
The series focuses on Monkey D. Luffy—a young man made of rubber after unintentionally eating a Devil Fruit—who sets off on a journey from the East Blue Sea to find the deceased King of the Pirates Gol D. Roger's ultimate treasure known as the "One Piece", and take over his prior title. In an effort to organize his own crew, the Straw Hat Pirates, Luffy rescues and befriends a pirate hunter and swordsman named Roronoa Zoro, and they head off in search of the titular treasure. They are joined in their journey by Nami, a money-obsessed thief and navigator; Usopp, a sniper and compulsive liar; and Sanji, an amorous but chivalrous cook. They acquire a ship, the Going Merry—later replaced by the Thousand Sunny—and engage in confrontations with notorious pirates. As Luffy and his crew set out on their adventures, others join the crew later in the series, including Tony Tony Chopper, an anthropomorphized reindeer doctor; Nico Robin, an archaeologist and former Baroque Works assassin; Franky, a cyborg shipwright; Brook, a skeleton musician and swordsman; and Jimbei, a whale shark-type fish-man and former member of the Seven Warlords of the Sea who becomes their helmsman. Together, they encounter other pirates, bounty hunters, criminal organizations, revolutionaries, secret agents, different types of scientists, soldiers of the morally-ambiguous World Government, and various other friends and foes, as they sail the seas in pursuit of their dreams.
