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Friday, December 15, 2017

Nao Kanzaki: 'Top Twenty Faves list for 2017' #4....?





 Was getting used to that hair color and kind of think I was enjoying it more than her original hue, now it's back to her natural style. Thinking this may be a surprise to many but if you've read her posts it shouldn't be as all along have said that Jurina would be in my top five, even mentioned that last year. On 2016's list Jurina was 9th which was a bit low but seeing as how she's the youngest fave to make the list the past two years that was probably an accurate position.
 Hard to explain what Jurina does to me, there may be some more voluptuous women out there but very few of them get my blood boiling like she does. Jurina has been around for so long it's hard to believe she won't be turning 21 until March 8th. She was definitely an early bloomer, I didn't start posting about Jurina until she was eighteen but before then she looked like she was in her twenties.



 Last two with the reddish tint and Jurina had changed her color for the 'Tofu Wrestling' drama. I have really enjoyed AKB's dramas over the years and haven't missed many of them. But after viewing the first two shows just couldn't see myself watching the whole series as it brought cheesiness to a new level. Idols as wrestlers is not the most believable of themes and even though Jurina as Hollywood had the second biggest part ceased after those first two episodes, there were over twenty.






 This past year may have been Jurina's quietest since becoming an Idol, lot of that had to do with SKE. The last 28 months they've only released four singles so if the group tends to be quiet so don't many of the members. But Jurina may have wanted a slower stretch as she's been working nonstop for over eight years now and really may have never had that chance to kick back and enjoy herself.
 To me Jurina isn't your regular type of Idol though she is one of the most popular ones. Besides her alluring looks she also has a brain on her shoulders and seems to one of the more intelligent gals in
J-Pop. Wonder what would have happened if she didn't become an Idol? Too late for that question now but bet she would have been very successful at whatever she chose, no doubt she would have graduated from a very prestigious college and actually Jurina's not too old to still do that.





 Once again was worried about whether there would be enough new pics for a post, not as many as previous ones but think all Jurina fans will be pleased with all of them. As mentioned one reason for the lack of things is the slowdown of SKE, their popularity has really slipped the past few years and think a main reason is the group releasing so few singles plus they don't tour as often.
 What the world truly needs is another Jurina photobook, her first and only one came out in September 2016. It was a huge seller and even though it was released so late in the year it was one of the top ten selling books of the year. You could also order a DVD with the PB that featured behind the scenes segments from the photo shoot which may have been better than the book. For the PB Jurina had cut her hair which was shown on the video, either length looks perfect to me.















 Jurina without a doubt does more posting to her Instagram account than any other Idol, could do a monthly post for the pics as there's so many and these are a few recent ones.














 Jurina's mag spreads are so hard to top as most of the pics will definitely leave you gasping for breath. Kind of an mystery then why she doesn't appear in more, my guess is she could be in so many more mags but declines to do so these days and that wasn't the case 2+ years ago. Have four today and all naturally oki doki.... wasn't that single an A++++ one and what a fun video. First off is one that missed in her last post which is from the June edition of Bomb.








 Think the last Jurina post was in August as there hasn't been that many recent activities to post about her or SKE. Here she graces the cover of the September 5th issue of Flash.







 Another Flash spread which was from a special issue titled 'Diamond' which came out in October.




 That above set was just way too small, how can any mag just have a spread of her with only three pages? At the top of the post was a short promo video for volume 25 of BLT Graph which is definitely worth a few though only a little over a minute in length. Jurina had the cover for the mag which came out at the end of November.














 There ended being over eighty pics for this post and all but eight were new so guess it turned out to be successful, even if it was just a 'greatest pics' collection it would be a winner. SKE hails from Aichi and Jurina still lives there after spending some time in Tokyo. She sings on AKB singles but no longer performs with them in concert or is on their 'Bingo' shows, appearing at concerts or on TV was a main reason for the move in the first place.
 On October 3rd Jurina and two SKE mates were at a press conference for a special campaign called 'Aichi Destination'. The campaign is going on until the end of the year but think the members just did a one time event for it. Plenty of superb pics from the press conference followed by a video of it and there's many to choose from on YT.















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