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Monday, October 9, 2023

Shiho Kato: A smorgasbord of this and that's....

 


 Shiho's previous post was of course done eight days ago and featured her first photobook. Say of course for that post has been extremely popular and has the second most views of all posts the past month, would think it should hit #1. Because of that had been debating on whether to hold back on any posts for a while but decided against that so things wouldn't get too dated. May have a Hina group post later on in the week and there are some observations I've noticed which I will hold on to until then.



 Coming into 2023 Shiho never had more than four solo posts in a year. This marks her eighth post and for the first time she's qualified for the yearly faves list. So haven't three other Hina members and two will finish in the top six. It's not a bad thing but don't know if I would want four members to make the top sixteen considering Keya will probably have only one gal on the list and I do like that group more. But Shiho has been a long time fan of mine and had moaned for so long how frustrating it was not to have solo posts for her. So she will be the third Hina member to make the top sixteen and in all honesty have no clue what her position may be.



No birthday celebrating in this post but in less than four months Shiho will be hitting the age of 26. That's a bit old for an Idol group yet there's two first generation members who are older. At seventy pics this will be a terrific post and just about all of them are new for here. First off are some recent pics from her IG page and she was the first Hina member to open an account.












 Those bottom three pics above are from a photo shoot for Hina's next album which comes out on November 8th. Still not a lot of details about it such as the title or track listing, it'll be their first album in over three years. Back on September 2nd Shiho attended the Autumn 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show and she always makes an appearance at those. After the show she did an interview with the Model Press site but that wasn't released until six days ago. It is a lengthy and interesting interview, luckily the word graduation was never brought up and here's the link to it: Model Press site






 Of course that post for her photobook will end up being Shiho's most viewed one ever but all her posts have been popular as she has quite a few fans here. Smorgasbord in the title is right on the money as there's plenty more things to satisfy your appetite for her(!), this small batch are new pics for the group's 'Mysterious Library' web game.






 Shiho has been a model for the CanCam magazine for about five years. But have noticed her modeling pics and mag spreads have slowed down this year for them and have nothing from them today. Did say there may be a few older things, this is one of those sets which is celebrating Halloween just a bit early. 












 More new promo game cards which are for 'Uni's on Air'. These are the game's September pics and once again they're late on issuing their monthly pics as there are none yet for October.





 Shiho has always appeared in many magazines and often has been the cover girl but there's been such a slowdown on them this year. However that's been the case for most J-Pop Idols that are faves of mine and wonder why that has happened? So let's dig into the archives for this super duper set from volume three of Platinum Flash that came out in March 2018. It was for her 20th birthday that had taken place on February 2nd.











 Sadly we're already at the end and hopefully can squeeze one more post in for her before the countdown to this year's faves list begins. Mentioned that Shiho makes an appearance at all those huge fashion shows and on September 30th she was at the Autumn 'Girls Award' held at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba. Six other Hina member were also there and she took her stroll on the Red Yazel stage. Hina has a second YT channel for the members to upload videos but the only two featuring Shiho have been with other members. There's no video from this show nor are there any other newish ones so will skip having one for this post.
























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