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Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Nao Kanzaki: Nao's 'Top Twenty of All Time Faves' list.... #2!!!! part four- mag spreads




 Is that bottom pic too hot to believe?! If you've been noticing you can say that about most of Minami's pics. Not sure what the first three posts will consist of, have an idea but this is the first of seven(?) which I'm doing in advance as it should be one of the easier ones. This is a bit of encore post again as I think all of these spreads have been posted before but many years ago. Bet there's many who may have never heard of Minami until today or haven't seen these spreads from 2013-17 so thought all viewers would enjoy seeing these pics and I hope it picks her up a few fans.
 First off though is a bit about Up Up Girls, Minami graduated from the group on September 15, 2017 and can't believe it's been over a year already. At the top was something I never knew existed until yesterday which is the Up Up Girls in concert along with The Possible doing a cover of the tremendous "Midnight Temptation" song. It was originally done by C-ute on their 2011 album "Chou Wonderful", they never had a #1 single but to me that could have been the song to hit the top.It's in my top five for their songs but sadly it was a song they never performed enough in concert, do recommend watching the above video then perhaps check out C-ute singing it.


 Haven't done a UUG post since the graduation as I do admit overlooking them but I will soon as their songs are quite enjoyable plus there's a few other members who I really like. Minami appeared in a fair amount of mag spreads over the years but there weren't enough solo ones after 2014 for some strange reason. With her incredible looks the question is why not, could it have been because UUG weren't more popular? Have eight sets for today and this first small spread is one that had never been posted until now which is form the June 2012 issue of UTB when Minami was twenty going on 21.





 Next pair are from 2013 with this set being from WPB #21, too many of the spreads are naturally not big enough but a few are and another question is why weren't they bigger?





 The magazine Minami has appeared the most in is Young Animal and their spreads are usually bigger. This is from YA #23 for 2013 and that top pic is the one that made me notice her for the first time and as they say the rest is history!








 Minami was the Young Animal 'Grand Prix Model' winner at their 2013 competition. did a post for it already but here's a few pics on how she looked.





 An honor for winning the competition was having her second mag cover which was for the February 28, 2014 edition of Young Animal. All the pics are sweltering but that bottom one, whewwww!!!!










 Her first cover was for the January 3, 2014 issue of Young Gangan.










 Back to more Young Animal spreads and this is from issue #10.






 Another cover which was from their November 28th edition, it may have been Minami's last spread for them and can't think of one good reason for that.










 The solo spreads slowed down so much after 2014 though she appeared in quite a few with UUG and those sets have already been posted. This may be Minami's last spread to date or at least I haven't noticed any since this one. It's her fourth cover and it's from the August 1, 2017 edition of Weekly Ascii. Have posted more Minami spreads than the eight for today but think this is a nice sampler for all, after the pics check out a video for Young Gangan which of course is beyond perfect. As mentioned didn't to these posts in order so no clue what the next one will be though of course it will be terrific.






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