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Friday, September 11, 2020

Yui Kobayashi: The second restart post(?) in her monthly series....


 Did think ahead a little bit as over the months have saved some things from my now crashed laptop to a flash drive. Few videos and personal items but the most important was my massive collection of pictures and hate to say how many GB's my picture folders are. However couldn't save that many videos as they're usually too large so lost so most of them. Bring that up as there were 3-4 videos of Yui I had on tap to view and were going to include screenshots in this and upcoming posts.

 Can still get some of the videos but for now am at a loss on what to watch as far as dramas and films go save for the Korean series I'm currently viewing. Not that (m)any care but there's a pair of recaps for that show two posts down. Yui finished in the tenth position on the last fave's preliminary list which was the same spot as the first list. But I actually like Yui more than some that are ahead of her but this has been a much slower year for her activities and blame that on Keya's management. So I don't expect her or my other faves from the group to be that busy for the rest of the year but it's not her fault for the current situation so think I'll leave her in the tenth spot regardless of what happens.



 The goal back in January was to have a post for Yui every month, perhaps even two. That worked out until the fifth month which is May and she had six posts. But had zero in June and July for new happenings though did have a post in July for her tremendous 2019 photobook. Hopefully we're back to that pace of at least one a month as there was a huge one in August and today's is fairly big too at over seventy pics with all being new save for ten. Will start off with those then which are these 2018 promo cards for the 'Keyakise' app game and these hadn't been posted before.

EDIT: Those top few cards got me thinking again of something. May have mentioned it in another post recently but would like to have some 'theme posts' for certain times of the year such as Christmas and Valentine's Day. You can tell what occasion those top pics would be used for.











 Yui was in a drama earlier this year, lost two of the subbed episodes when my laptop crashed. On November 13th her first film "Sakura" will be released so perhaps we'll be seeing plenty of pics when we get nearer to that date such as interviews, events or mag spreads for the movie. Have a good variety of things for today but there has been such a lack of mag spreads for all Keya members. Small batch here are from the group blog which is called 'Diary'.






 Top two above were from last Saturday's Autumn 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show held at the empty Saitama Super Arena though it was streamed live. Four members did a promo for their Keya AEON credit card, that's the second set of pics while the first was from her solo strut on the catwalk. Kind of odd but am playing a comp CD I made up, the last two songs have had the word CAT in the title. It's the second set of pics which I truly think are super duper and doesn't Yui look so tall? She is in a way as her height is 162 cm as so many Idols are shorter but there's two(more?) other Keya members who tower over her.























 Yui is joined by one of those taller members in this interview which came out yesterday for
'The TV.jp' site. It was for Keya's documentary film which was finally released eight days ago, in the last group post had some more interview pics plus a smattering from it's premiere.








 Haven't counted but it wouldn't surprise me if Yui had 25 solo mag spreads in 2018 and 2019. But the lack of new Keya music and activities has probably been the main reason Yui and other members have appeared in so few this year. Think her last solo set for a different mag was in January. Say 'different mag' as she does appear in most monthly issues of With, none are of the gravure variety but all still look oki doki to me and these are from their September issue.








 Some of those above pics are in this final set but they're 'clean versions'. To me Yui's pics at the With Online site are some of the top modeling pics these days and she usually has twenty or so new ones every month. There hasn't been any kind of new Keya CM's or much else the past few months and could that be because of the impending name change? It's been up on YT for five days so hopefully it won't get deleted as after the pics is a video from last weekend's TGC show with all four members.





















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