Nogizaka46: The illustrious 'Miona Hori post' #37.... and hopefully it won't be....

 

 .... her final post as a Nogi member! Next week the group's ninth birthday concerts will be held, of course they'll have to be streamed as there's no way they could hold shows in front of 40,000 fans. During those concerts in the past many graduations have taken place and will there be one this year? Not positive but my money would be NO as those other graduation concerts had been known beforehand. Last November Miona did announce in a unique way via a PV that she would be leaving Nogi but no date has ever been set. You would think if she was going to graduate next week it would have been publicized to get more fans to buy tickets for the stream of the shows. But nothing has been said about her graduation since that original announcement and while it could happen next week just have a feeling it won't be the case.

 Perhaps Miona is waiting for a better date in the future such as when the group may be able to have a regular concert or at least one where fans could attend. But that may not be possible for a while as there's many new restrictions in Japan because of the virus. So my prediction will be that Nogi will have another streamed graduation and in all honesty think those work out better than regular shows. That'll take a while to set up so wouldn't be surprised if Miona is with the group for a few more months, too many of my predictions have flopped but really hope this one doesn't. But then again Nogi hasn't been doing much of anything as a group these last few months save for appearing on music shows to promote their latest single so it really may not matter how much longer she stays.

 Really have no clue what the future holds for Miona except for partaking in her fave activity! She's a model for the ar magazine but that's her only outside activity as she left her 'Recon' radio show last year. So she doesn't model for any other sites nor has she appeared in any dramas outside of Nogi ones, she is a popular Idol but that doesn't often translate into a busy and successful career. But you have to start something different at some point and she will be turning 25 later on this year so why wait until that popularity begins to wane? Let's get to things and do have many new pics for today such as these recent Nogi blog pics, bottom ones are from her last appearance ever on the 'Music Station' show.

 Have close to ninety new pics(!) and seeing as how few Nogi activities there's been the last few months that surprised me with how many there are. So what I'm going to do is hold back about forty and have another post in about two weeks as those pics will make a nice start for it. One thing I'll hold back are some group cards and these are some missed from 2020.

 You may have seen these last week in a Nogi Valentine's post but added one pic from that batch and she's really grown in five years.

 February 28th is when the first 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show will be held. Miona has appeared at about twenty of them over the years but she's not on the list of gals that will be there and wonder if that's because of her graduation? Superb pics here are from the January 11, 2020 TGC show.

 That show won't be taking place for eleven days so there is a chance Miona will be there and hope so as I don't want to see her go away too quietly. More superb pics which are from a new interview with the Encount Press site. She talked about her future to an extent but more so on her history with Nogi and about the unique way she announced her graduation, here's the link to it: Encount

 Eleven days left to this month and really hope I can continue with that monthly second generation series. It's always been a struggle to have posts for most of them but even more so these days. But will make every effort to have that post and when Miona departs it'll be down to seven 2G members.

 So if she does make an appearance at that upcoming TGC show expect a post the following day, if not about three weeks from today. Am holding back about twenty 'NogiKoi' game cards and finally have some new ones. But the main thing will be Miona's spread for the current issue of Platinum Flash and for the third time she's their cover girl. So that next post should be a huge one too and have many sparkling outtake pics from the photo shoot, the spread is 23 pages.

 Really hope that next post isn't Miona's first as an ex-Nogi member! Final set of pics and Miona has been a model for the ar magazine for about three years, this is her spread for their March issue and the bottom pics are new from their site. Don't know how long it'll remain on YT so watch it quick as she was the co-host of last night's 'Showroom' talking about Nogi's upcoming birthday concerts.