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Tuesday, April 7, 2020

Nogizaka46: The pairs post #9 with.... Hinako and Mai!!!!


 Came close to taking tonight off too due the massive slowdown but two days off for me is extremely rare and will never try to have it happen. Hopefully can have at least one post a day for a while, there should be one for Manatsu who released her second photobook today but of course there wasn't an event for it. Had planned on having another Nanase post this Thursday as there's a terrific spread of her that came out yesterday and wanted to include screenshots from her new drama. That's called 'Unsung Cinderella" but there's a major snag to the show. It was announced today that the series is being put on hold because of the health crisis and the show is very behind on it's filming. Will still try to have a post for her this week but kind of bummed out the drama is being postponed and there's no date on when it'll start.

 Couple of weeks ago promised there would be a 'pairs post' this month for this dynamic duo, for once kept my word. That's Hinako at the top and she's close to being my current #1, she's been my fave Nogi member for some time now. Hard to explain why I'm head over heels for her but it's been that way for years now, it's not that she's much different than other gals but whatever that difference is has makes me ga-ga. This is also her third 'pairs post' which moves her into a tie for most.
 Mai is no slouch either and she's flip flopped from being my number two or three fave Nogi member for about a year. Luckily there's been no graduation rumors about either, when they leave is when my days as a Nogi fan become limited. This post will help both out to become eligible for this year's faves list, neither will have six solo posts but they each should have at least 250 pics in group and other posts, both are over halfway to meeting that criteria.



 Hinako and Mai each had a solo post last month, will try to have at least one solo post a month for one of them but hopefully both. This will be a decent post but truly thought there would be many more pics of this unbeatable team as they did join Nogi together and always seemed like good friends. Have never done a 'trio post' as it may prove to be impossible though there is one potential team that it could be done for, this trio are far and away my fave Nogi members.





 There's 35 pics for this duo which is actually about the amount that made up previous 'pairs posts'. So will add in a few other solo things which will increase the number of pics to seventy, seeing as how the next few weeks could be slow will try to work on a few more of these posts. Here's some Hinako solo pics from the photo shoot of her first and only photobook. Top two pics you've seen though while the others are new for here, the PB came out in December 2018 and as you may notice the pics were taken in Sweden.












 Was thinking of having a solo Mai post but just weren't enough new pics. New is what these are here, top batch are from the andGirl site while the others are from last week's 'All Night Nippon' show.

















 Last solo pics are small sets from volume 12 of Platinum Flash, did have them already in a recent post for the second generation members.








 Now finally on to the 35 pics of this pair and they just look so terrific together, they look mighty fabulous by themselves too! This batch are some over the years from Nogi's group blog save for the top pic, would love to come between them in those bottom two....












 This set of pics I somehow missed and that doesn't happen too often. Last October 10th the pair were at an event called 'SOS47' which was put on by the Japanese National Police Agency. It was to promote the learning of stopping a huge fraud that in Japan is called the 'Oreore scam'. It was held in Ibaraki prefecture and they were appointed as special commissioners for the campaign, still can't believe I somehow missed this event when it happened.












 At the bottom of the post is a short video promoting their appearance in....



.... the May issue of BLT. This is the only mag spread featuring Hinako and Mai, honestly thought they were in at least one other but checked all of the older posts and there were none. So what we need are more sets with the pair who send my heart beating at an uncontrollable rate....









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