Manami Hashimoto: Her broiling Sabra-Net "Strictly Girl" pictorial from 2014 plus many other treats....

 

 This is the fifth post in this mini Manami revival series, three of those first four posts made the section for the ten most popular posts for the past month so she still has quite a few fans out there. Or perhaps Manami has gained some new ones and why not as she truly is one breathtaking woman who I would say is my second favorite gravure model of all time. What's nice about the posts being so popular is that Manami is now forty in age, the photos in these posts are of course from when she was younger but not too young as she was at least 29 in age for everything up until now. Not sure how many more posts will be done, would like to have three more as that would bring her overall total post count to 25 so that'll be a new goal of mine.

 Manami doesn't do gravure modeling these days but did up until the age of 35, that's when her last regular photobook came out and it was by far her top one ever! She's still very active as a regular model and actress plus does appear on many variety shows. And at events for yesterday she was at one which was an awards ceremony for the '2025 National Hoshimo Grand Prix' and Manami was one of the judges who rated the food. Hoshimo is a Japanese food and one that I hadn't heard of before or least don't think so but it seems to very popular in Japan.

 So while that set of pics above are terrific they don't compare to this batch from November 1, 2018 when Manami was 34 in age. She was at the Haneda Airport where the 'Japanese Association of Shochu' held an event to taste Shochu and Awamori, November 1st is a yearly celebration for both of those. Below are a few pics from the event and if your heart can take it have a video of it after them which I highly recommend, she has said often over the years how she loves Sake and Shochu.

 

 There were no magazine spreads to promote the mini pictorial but do have a pair from that era. First off is this set from the April 10, 2015 issue of Weekly Taishu that featured Manami as the cover girl, wish this set was larger and have noticed how mag spreads have grown over the years. The actual magazine hasn't gown but they feature less models which means all get a few extra pages.

 The second spread is the oldest one to date for her and is from the April 14, 2012 edition of Friday Dynamite which is no longer around. Manami did do a lot of gravure modeling for the five previous years but unsure if I will having any books or pictorials from then.... hard to explain why but that second photo below is my all time favorite one of Manami 😍....

 On to the Sabra-Net pictorial and that was the term used for digital books a decade ago. It is smallish set with only forty pics but of course Manami looks so ultra fabulous! Sabra used to be a monthly magazine and to me had the highest quality as far as the photos went, often they also had a DVD featuring the models from that issue. These days there is no monthly edition but think they have a quarterly one along with an occasional digital book.