Though you will be seeing many revealing photos and I do mean revealing(!) that top pic is my favorite from the book. This is the second post in a row for an (ex)SKE member and that's probably the first time it's ever happened, as I've said numerous times they've always been my top '46/48' group though of course Nogi has many more posts and to me only C-ute's singles from 2011-17 topped SKE's. I didn't mention Ruka by name did bring her up a few times since the beginning of the year as I was so torn on whether to begin doing posts for her. I have a feeling a slowish stretch could be coming up so this is a perfect time for her to be introduced but actually this is her reintroduction.
For Ruka has had magazine spreads and other things in five previous SKE group posts so she's someone I've liked for a while but like so many SKE members her activities petered out after 2021. Ruka did graduate from the group last June and she had been with them for eleven years, she was one of their all time youngish gals as she was just 14 in age when she joined. So guess after eleven years as an Idol she did all she could do and moved on to some.... bigger and better things?!
Which is being a full time gravure model and perhaps she looked at how popular some 46/48 members became when they also became models.
Ruka had done some gravure work years ago but not recently so it was a surprise when her first photobook came out. The biggest surprise to me was how revealing the book is and that's why I had wavered about doing posts for
Ruka, is she dressed too skimpy? Hard to use the word
skimpy when you're wearing nothing(!) but of course most was left to our imagination. Since this photobook was released she's had at least five digital books and twice as many magazine spreads which are also just as revealing, doubt if I'll get a warning about posting her photos but you never know. So this will be the first of at least five posts for
Ruka though as mentioned she was in five previous SKE group posts but this is her first ever solo one.
Will have more bio info and such in
Ruka's future posts, she'll be hitting the age of 26 in May and hails from Gifu which is an area very few J-Pop Idols come from. I had always liked
Ruka but will admit I had slightly forgotten about her as there were so few SKE activities such as magazine spreads and photobooks after 2021. All of my favorite members have left but they still do put out some terrific singles but it's so hard doing group posts these days. The book at almost a hundred pics is large but do have one other thing for today which is this spread from the September 24th issue of
Flash that had some outtake/promo pics from the book.
In her upcoming posts will have a variety of things such as more mag spreads and digital books plus pics from her IG page, old SKE cards and photos from an event held for this book. There are two versions of
Ruka's first and only regular photobook "Furetre, Miru" which was released last September 12th, this is the print edition while the version is a digital one. Forget what the exact sales numbers were but this book was in the top ten for many weeks so it was a solid seller and perhaps that means photobook #2 will be happening. This version has a total of 98 photos, the first four of the post and the 94 below.
Ruka traveled to Okinawa for the photo shoot and will have her second solo post by the end of the month, could do it sooner but want to spread her posts out. As you will soon see these pics below are very revealing though of course most of her figure is left to our wild imaginations....
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