Did talk a week ago about doing this post which is the first time I've done one such as this so hope it goes well and by the title you should know what it's about. This is not the same as a 'Blast from the Past' post as those are usually for someone who has had a lot of posts over the years but then disappeared for a while and have returned. There's quite a few woman who I liked so much who had a decent amount of posts from 2014-18 and for whatever reason those posts ceased. Those posts could have been for gravure models, J-Pop Idols or more commonly actresses. Reasons for the stoppage in posts is perhaps they graduated from their groups and semi-disappeared which happened often or for an actress as they weren't appearing in all that many dramas or films. Some may have retired and there's other reasons too but there was a core of perhaps two dozen women who I do miss posting about, #1 one on that list could be today's honoree! Don't know if I'll do this for others but she's always been on my mind and this would make for an interesting series though a difficult one to do.
By naming this a '
re-introduction' am presuming many may not know who
Yuria is but she is such a massive fave of mine though most may not know that. She graduated from AKB in September 2017, about four months shy of her 22nd birthday and at the time thought she may have left a bit early.
Yuria did keep busy for about three years doing a lot of stage plays and some guest spots on dramas. I saw her in two episodes of the 2019 series "CHEAT" and she had never looked better! Then in the Autumn of 2021
Yuria had some health issues and said she was 'retiring' for a while but did make a return to show biz a little over a year ago. So since then has done some regular modeling work, appeared on a few more dramas as a guest star and is currently in a stage play that opened on July 1st.
After writing the above up have decided that I will do a second post and have much more info on what's taken place in the past year. This post will have a mix of new things and also much from 2017 which was
Yuria's last year with AKB. Then that second post will have more new things and am thinking of having much from 2015/16 though would wait a few weeks on that. Let's begin off with some pics since March from her IG page, top one is a birthday pic but the party had to be late as she turned 27 on February 11th.
Before that other post takes place there will be a different one and haven't done one of those kinds of posts for a while. That will be a 'Pairs Post' and
Yuria also was a member of SKE as she appeared on a dozen of their A-sides. Her best mate at the time was
Akari and the two are still very good friends so in about a week or two will have a post which I think will be pretty darn good. They still see each other as the bottom two pics are from March and it seems both like to go out and have a fun time.
More newish pics which are from the
Kangol site and their Autumn 2022 collection, would highly doubt we ever see any more gravure pics from her.
The rest of the post will be for 2017 things, most were in older posts though bet 95% of you viewers have never seen her older mag spreads. But first off are these
Yuria AKB cards from 2017, had never posted any of her cards so will have many more of them in that next post.... or two?
While with AKB Yuria had two photobooks, both get close to a 10/10 from me and have posted both so highly recommend viewing them. The second book was titled "Stagedoor" which came out in September 2017, about 2-3 weeks before her graduation.
Those above pics were from an event for the book back in September 2017. To me it doesn't matter how
Yuria is dressed, whether it's pics like the ones of above or very scantly for either way she looks like a few gazillion yen to me!!!! Have two magazine spreads that featured outtake pics from the photobook, first is from the October 2017 issue of
Entame.
Second spread to promote the book was from the September 26, 2017 issue of
Flash and how I wish there was a DVD of the photo shoot. Did two posts for the "Stagedoor" book, just type that in the search section and they should both come up.
Am going to hold back one 2017 magazine spread for that next post. Will end off with a pair of sets from
Manga Action and
Yuria was the cover girl both time, first set is from their March 7th issue.
Final set of dazzling pics(to me!) is the second
Manga Action spread and it's from their August 1, 2017 issue, was probably her last time as a cover girl. Have done a lot of searching on YT and have found only one
Yuria gravure video which is from April 2017. Surprised it doesn't have over a million views as that's how many times I've viewed it.... whew, it also leaves me at a loss for words.... Grrrr, for some reason it's age restricted and hate when that happens so here's the link to it and highly recommend viewing it as it should garner
Yuria a few more new fans:
Young Champion video
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