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Sunday, January 4, 2026

Ayano Sumida: Yet another in the series of.... 𝑯𝒐𝒑𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒂𝒗𝒆𝒏'𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒈𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒔𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒔 posts.... volume two....

 


 I think a huge positive about me is my memory, I can remember almost every detail from the past twenty years which is a huge plus as the rest of my brain works so-so at best!!!! However the last few years seem to forget more recent things, such as what I may have done within the last week, month or year and I'm kind of young for that to happen. A prime example is Ayano who I like quite a bit and so don't you viewers as her posts are usually very popular. Hadn't checked but thought I hadn't done a post for Ayano since last Spring, perhaps even longer than that. So I was very shocked to see I had done five posts for her between March and August of last year, almost five months since her last post isn't too long but the main question is how did I forget doing those posts? Which did make me scramble as I was planning on posting two digital books that had already been posted but did have enough other photos for today and all you'll see below are new for here. Hmmmm, upon further reflection the post's title should be for me and not you viewers!

**** The comment right below was written on November 29th, it was for an Ayano post done way back on June 25, 2023 and I always check your comments. I won't give my opinion but what do others think about her impossible to miss assets????



 Never thought about it until that comment was posted, you'll hear no complaints from me! With five posts Ayano would have qualified for last year's faves list, she wouldn't have made the top ten but how I hate to overlook someone. Not much as changed for her over the last four years, Ayano is busy when it comes to gravure modeling but doesn't do too much else. I've read newbies to the world of gravure modeling don't make a huge amount of $$ at first but when you become popular like Ayano and others I post about have bet they make a decent amount of moolah and probably more than I do. Will have her newest digital book end this post off but there are four others that have come out since August so by the end of the month will have a post where I combine the two smallest ones. Then will have at least one other right around February 26th as that's when Ayano will be celebrating her 27th birthday, I'm liking how the gravure models I who I post often about are still doing that line of work though they're close to or over the age of thirty.



 Once again will say I can't find anything to complain about as far as Ayano's assets go! Will have four sections to this post and all of the photos from here on out are new for here. About seventy new ones in all which is small for that many sections but the book isn't too large. First off are these newish pics from her IG page, Ayano often posts many from her photo shoots but I like those first two as we don't see her too often dressed as a normal woman and in a way we should be glad of that....









 A trend I've noticed over the last year for the gravure models I post about is that though most have as many digital books as usual their magazine spreads have slowed down. Wonder why that's happened as it is an oddity and you would have thought it'd be the other way around. Will have one Ayano missed spread from 2025 that had been missed and it was for the Spring edition of Sabra. At one time they had a monthly issue plus too many web books and videos to count but the site doesn't have nearly as many these days. Which is such a shame as I've always thought their older pictorials(books) from 2005-15 were the best by a wide margin!








 What's become more common for gravure models is to have trading card sets and wish more had them as they're so terrific! Leading the pack is Ayano who has released sets the last three years and always in the Summer. Still have more from her first two card sets to post and will be getting to those but here's some from her third collection that was released last July 26th.















 Aren't those cards above so fabulous and as many of you have noticed I also enjoy cards from J-Pop groups though none are as sizzling as those above cards! For the finale have Ayano's newest digital book that the Young Jump magazine released on Christmas Day and how about her being a present under your tree?! The photos are of course dazzling but there's only 44 of them, there was no spread to promote the book but in December so many magazines double up on their issues so perhaps there will be an upcoming spread from the magazine. After the pics is a short video from the photo shoot, Ayano's pics are always terrific but I think she looks even better in videos so highly recommend this one.