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Hajimemashite minna san....welcome to my site on my fave Japanese Pop Culture likes such as dramas, movies, magazine scans, promo events etc. Mainly concentrate on my faves...Risa Watanabe... Miku Tanaka... Yui Kobayashi....Miyuki Watanabe.... Nene Shida....if you're a fan at all of any of them then you've come to the rightplace(!) but many others are featured here besides them. Do mainly quick reviews on things I've watched, try to make the reviews brief, quick to read through with not too many spoilers, just whether they're good or bad and why I thought so plus whether you may find them enjoyable. Many, many screenshots are included from everything I've watched plus any video trailers if they're available. Hope you find something that interests you, don't hesitate to comment, arigato gozaimasu!
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Thursday, June 19, 2025
Suzuka Tomita: Here's a name you probably thought would never be mentioned here again....
This keeps my streak alive of having at least one post a day for the month and did come close to letting it lapse today. Wonder if I will have enough things for the next ten days to complete the month but if I don't it isn't a big deal. That title is right on the money as I didn't think there would ever be another post for Suzuka who is a medium sized favorite of mine but had she been busier with more posts she'd be right there as far as my top '46' Idols go! But heard some fabulous news a few days back and began to realize I had missed doing these posts for her, this is her fifteenth solo one plus she's had hundreds of photos in Hina group posts. Figured this would be Suzuka's first post since 2023 but to my surprise she had two in the first half of 2024 plus a pair in late 2023, for a while the posts were steady for her along with other Hina members plus some from Keya but it's so difficult these days doing these kinds of posts for current Idols.
Sure most didn't miss seeing posts for Suzuka or may not have even noticed that they had ceased a while ago! For a long time the running joke(but the truth!) in her solo posts was how unpopular Suzuka is here and her posts were drawing fewer views than any other woman I posted about. But she did have a small number of diehard fans and hope they're still lurking around for my plan is to have at least one more post for her in about a month, with any luck perhaps one more about two weeks later. So will try to just make this a medium sized post as I'd rather three between now and mid-August compared to a pair of massive posts. Back in January Suzuka hit the age of 24 and to be honest had been thinking she was at least a year older and maybe that's because she's been with Hina for so long, it's now been over seven years since the second generation members joined.
Another running joke was about her not being a Mensa candidate but bet she's not as unintelligent as she appears to be! Almost forgot to mention the most important bit of news for this post which is not a happy bit of info but the other news is a joyous occasion. As of April all of Hina's first generation members had departed so of course most of us fans began to wonder when are the 2G gals going to leave as they've been there almost as long as their Senpais were. The first key member to announce her graduation was sadly Suzuka and she did on May 3rd. But I'm not sure when the official departure date will be, there will be a grad concert streamed on June 27th but the main theme of it will be for Hina's 14th single.
Then on July 23rd there will be another concert held which may be a solo show but am hoping that June 27th performance won't be her final one with the group. That's only seven weeks after Suzuka announced her graduation and usually their farewell show(s) take place three or so months later. So that's one reason I want to have another post near the end of July with all of her graduation details and will say I was kind of stunned with the news as I figured two others would be leave before she did. Bet Suzuka felt a bit frustrated and so haven't other members which is why there's been such a huge exodus over last fourteen months. The 4G members have received way too much attention and so many long time fans have grumbled about that which is why the group isn't as popular as they once were. Hina's singles still sell about the same amount of copies but the attendance for their last two tours have been down and overall the members aren't as popular as they once were.... more inane thoughts in that next post.
But do have some fantastic news and thought this would never happen so in a way it'll make her graduation a bit more bearable. You can go back 2-3 years and check out my comments about Suzuka in her solo posts or group ones. In so many said there was a pair of idols who have never had a photobook and those two topped my list on who I wanted to see have a book. Exactly a year ago one of the pair had a book and to say it was overly mesmerizing would be such an understatement, kind of odd how both Idols were both from Hina!!!!
Of course that's Konoka above and her first photobook was my second favorite for 2024. In some fabulous news it was announced that on August 6th Suzuka would be releasing her first and probably last book, because of the date had wondered if she would remain a Hina member until then. Will admit I am kind of torn on her having a book, of course she will look sweltering to the Nth degree in it. But on the other hand what I've really adored about Suzuka over the years is just how darn attractive she is with her slightly conservative style, if she never had any gravure pics I could live with that. Below are five promo pics that have just come out for the book and sure plenty more will be on the way. That first photo is just so alluring and she's guaranteed me a sleepless night!!!!
Doesn't she have such an infectious smile(?), to me she does and if I had to wake up in the morning to her grinning like that for the next forty years 😍 I'd be one of the luckiest men in the world! The photo shoot took place in Australia and will have more info on the book and other things in her next post which should be in about a month. Though I did say this would be a medium sized post it'll still end up being rather large with sixty new pics and about 25 older ones. First off is this batch from the Hina blog, I would love to do another 'Pairs Post' with her close mate in the first and last pics.
Most fans know that Suzuka is a huge formula one racing fan and as far as I know she's still a reporter and co-host for the 'See You at the Circuit' racing show. She has appeared at a few races, once she even sang the national anthem and will have more info in that next post which looks like it may also be a large one! Have moaned a bit the last few years how the group cards for Idols have really slowed down but not for Suzuka! She honestly has more of them than anyone else and have no clue why, this batch are from last December and November, will have 2025 cards in that next post.
I'm a somewhat normal male(?) so of course I also enjoy scantly clad gravure pics but those above to me are so super duper and hard to beat! One huge reason for Suzuka being so unpopular here is because she never had any gravure photos in her posts but to me and sure a few others that's a refreshing change from looking at lingerie and bikini pics. At one time Suzuka did appear in a fair amount of magazines and probably has had ten or so solo spreads. But when the 4G members came aboard the spreads and other kinds of photo shoots really dwindled for her and other members which has to be one of the major reasons for so many graduations. Not positive but think this is her last major solo spread to date, it is a terrific one and is from the September 2023 issue of BLT Graph.
How about one more oldie spread, this is also from 2023 and the April edition of EX-Taishu. With the photobook coming out soon would think(hope) that Suzuka will have a few spreads to promote it and would have those i n one of her two upcoming posts.
We've hit the end, while it may not have seemed to be a large post there has to be well over eighty pics and save for the above spreads most photos were new for here. Will end off with some sparkling promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game which features characters from both Hina and Keya. For so many years the game had monthly pics and to me they were always so superb. But a year ago the pics began to be released so sporadically and there's been no ones since January which are the top four. After that there's six more months and think the bottom two months may have been posted before but sure not many of you have seen them! There is a decent Suzuka video at the Hina YT channel that was released two months ago but it's got such an irritating English dub to it which kind of wrecks it. But there is another fun video that came out in March and that's after the pics, her very few fans here may recall that last year Suzuka bought her first ever vehicle and had four videos of her adventures in purchasing it. The video shows her zooming around Yokohama in that vehicle with a pair of Hina mates.... sigh, guess she lost my address again as I'm still waiting to be picked up....
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