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Monday, January 27, 2025

Yuria Kizaki: Her mesmerizing "Peace" photobook.... a repost

 


 Two days ago, the 25th, wrote up a post for a stupendous recent photobook but it won't be published until February 1st. In that post said I had no idea at the time what would be happening the final six days of January, would there be any posts or not? For I am in the process of getting ready to move this weekend so wouldn't have time to write up posts. But as you can see did sneak this one in and will try to have another as long as it's somewhat easy. So wrote that other post up a week early for after I move won't have the internet for 2-3 days and in the post explained what was going on with me and this intro also tells you why the posts have been sporadic lately but hopefully not for too much longer.



 For about a year have been promising to do a post for the above pair and it still hasn't been done yet! That's hard to believe and the main only reason is I keep forgetting about it but vow to get working on it. Yuria is one of those underrated Idols who I have liked immensely over the years, did have a good amount of posts for her from 2015-18 but only one or two since. In September 2017, which was five months before her 22nd birthday, Yuria graduated from AKB and though I was glad for her thought it would have been wiser if she stuck around a while longer. Yuria was also a member of SKE and appeared on a dozen of their singles which is how the above pair became best of friends. Yuria was busy for a while after graduating and looked better than ever when she made two guest appearances on the "CHEAT" drama in late 2019. But then a year or so later Yuria did have some health issues and had actually retired for a while but seems to be better now as she made a return to show biz in 2022 and in that upcoming 'Pairs Post' will have some bio info from the past two years.

 Not a birthday post but on February 11th Yuria will be hitting the age of 29 so good timing for this post. Who knows why we prefer certain females over others but I have been slightly ga-ga over Yuria 😍 since I laid eyes on her, she's not as bodacious as other J-Pop Idols but to me is so alluring in a magnetic way. Nine years ago did a pair of posts for this book but have been trying to clean up those older posts and combine them into one post. So that's the reason for having this book again but also it's because I got a higher quality version of the book plus it's nice to revive these older ones which have sadly been forgotten. "Peace" was Yuria's first photobook and it was released on her 19th birthday back in 2015. The book was a decent seller with over 30,000 copies sold, as terrific as Yuria looks in these pictures I think her second photobook "Stagedoor" was a tad better and that you will be seeing once again soon. The two original posts for this book were only semi-popular but I think the pics are so super duper and hopefully this can gain her a few new fans. There's a total of 148 photos from the book, the main photo shoot took place on the island of Guam. Some of the text you see on the pictures are words SKE fans sent in that they wanted Yuria to say to them which only makes partial sense to me....


















































































































































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