Fan CastingWhat's up with Love?/Ada Apa dengan Cinta? (Japanese Remake)

Aiko is a popular teenage girl living a comfortable lifestyle. She is gifted and accomplished, surrounded by a group of faithful friends consisting of the wise Ayaka, the tomboyish Urara, the sassy Miho, and the ditzy Yoko. She also has caring and supportive parents. The story begins with Aiko and her four best friends crying on each other's shoulders for Ayaka, who was the victim of domestic abuse by her father. Aiko recites the group's pledge to the buku curhat, a diary or scrapbook shared by the girls, that a problem one of them is going through is to be shared with all of them. Aiko is a school poet who has been honored for her work, and, in her final year of high school, she submits a beautiful poem to the yearly poetry contest. However, much to the students' surprise, Aiko does not win. The grand prize in the contest is awarded to a boy named Makoto, whose name is not well known in the school.