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Wednesday, January 20, 2021

Haruka Kodama: The most extreme.... 'Blast from the Past' post of all time....

 


 Not positive of the number but bet since the beginning of November have had 15-20 of these kinds of posts. What I mean by that is of faves who had gone a year or more without a post plus a few others who were forgotten about by all of us. Kind of odd how it's happened in such a short amount of time, don't try to have these posts but really hope more are on the way.

 In all honesty never though Haruka would ever have another post. This is her tenth and her last one was done all the way back in February 2017 so it's been close to four years. I really liked the way she looked and the kind of Idol she was with HKT, she was the main reason I followed them to a small extent. Well life for Haruka came tumbling down so quickly, she was quite sick for a while which is one reason I never thought she'd have another post. But for the last year have been checking up on her and seems she's back to 100% normal. Not many new pics for today but the ones that will end the post off may be among the best to date for the year.



 Won't go into too many details but there's plenty of articles out there about Haruka and what took place with her starting in mid 2017. She had some major health issues and had to take a hiatus from HKT, that absence continued into 2018. Then she came back but still wasn't doing all that well and it was mainly due to her medicine. That made her gain a lot of weight and as you can see from her pics Haruka was always a very thin gal but not too thin in the right places. So to make a long story short she went on hiatus a second time and ended up graduating in June 2019. That was the official date but Haruka hadn't been on a single since 2017 and rarely did any group activities for her final eighteen months, figured after her departure she'd disappear.



 But disappearance wasn't for a long time as Haruka came back stronger than ever about a year ago as an actress and has been very busy. In 2020 she was in two stage plays, a film and many dramas, both prime time and web ones. So she's one of the few '48' graduates who have succeeded and that pleases me when someone as nice as her can rebound from some bad breaks. One thing I've also been missing the last few years are AKB dramas, been a while since I was into their music but their shows were always top notch. Haruka has been in a pair of '48' dramas, one was an HKT show. Think the final AKB drama to date was "Cabasuka Gakuen" and I really enjoyed that one. The members all looked so alluring and that definitely includes Haruka






 She had the lead role in the "Oblique" drama which aired during the Topic Maker' variety show. Torn on whether to more of it, the shows have been subbed but they were only five minutes in length and wonder if it'd be worth it.



 Few years back posted the pics from her "Lock On" photobook and to me that was one super duper PB. May be posting it again as the scans from it weren't as good as they usually are and do have much better quality ones so will do that somewhat soon, that PB has been extremely popular with you viewers.






 Will go back in time with this spread from the February 6, 2017 issue of Young Magazine. It was her last major solo spread as an HKT member and thought you'd want to see some older pics to compare how she looked at twenty to her current age of 24.








 This batch are Haruka's first after leaving HKT and they're from a June 2019 interview with the Walker Plus site where she talked about switching agencies and her future as an actress.











 She looked mighty fine in June 2019 but not in pics from 2018 as her health really affected her looks. Plenty of recent IG pics and she does post many of them.












 Even more IG pics which are from a recent Up To Boy magazine photo shoot, so what they....





 .... may mean is that there may be another post for Haruka on the horizon. Hopefully there will be a few more mag spreads and will end off with one. But before that are these promo pics for her 2021-22 calendar which will be on sale February 14th, wowowowowowowowow....








 Actually this final set deserves more of a WOW! and they're from the January 29th issue of Friday. They're more promo pics from the calendar and doesn't Haruka look utterly amazing!!!! She really does to me and especially the fourth and fifth pics, whewwww!! Won't post any videos but a little over a month ago she opened a YT Vlog, here's the link to it: Haruka's Vlog









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