Hinako Kitano: Her only semi-ebullient yet soon to be historic.... 'Happy 29th Birthday' post....

 

 That first pic is one of my all time favorites yet she may have ten other photos that top it such as the first one below which is in my top five of all time! What's hard to believe is that top pic was an outtake from her second photobook.... an OUTTAKE?!!!! It's always a joyous occasion when a birthday post is done and doubly for when the post is for Hinako who is my #2 favorite Nogi member of all time and for a while had been my number one! You do see the term .... top(whatever) of all time used in her posts and there's a huge reason for that as many faithful readers know. For Hinako was in the second position on my 'All Time Top Twenty Faves' list when it was done in September 2022, at the time she was my top Nogi member. I did have a feeling she would never make the final leap to #1 because of lack of activities but didn't expect to see such a decrease in posts and don't think any MASSIVE FAVORITE of mine has seen their posts dwindle such as she has.

**** Was going to wait about a week before doing this but the post below this is for the third favorite woman of all time. Hinako was second on that list done three years and this is the first time I've ever done back to back posts with such gigantic faves of mine!!!!

 Starting in about 2015 Hinako 😍 became such a huge favorite of mine, after a few graduations by 2019 had become my #1 member and no one topped her ultra kawaiiness. She did have such a sweltering photobook that came out in December 2018 and I knew she was so underrated alluring but not to the extent she was in those photos! But even if Hinako didn't have that book she still would have become my #1 Nogi member, she is such a fun and interesting woman who had become the best member to watch on their two variety shows and why didn't she have her own?! Even after Hinako hit my top spot she didn't stop rising as I liked her more than ever as the next three years went on, as kawaii as she was up until the age of 21 her seductiveness became out of control as you can see in those above pics and many others in this post. By the end 2019 Hinako only had fifteen solo posts but must have had close to a thousand pics in group posts! That's the way it was for so long here, would mainly have group posts for Nogi and Keya so she easily could have had thirty solo posts entering 2020 instead of fifteen. Then again Nogi fans did enjoy group posts more than solo ones which is why they continued on for so long.

 There's zero wrong with pics like the pair above which are perfect in their own way! Hmmmm, most of my top faves have had a few photobooks where they're dressed quite skimpy or have done other gravure work but to me it's how they look in non-gravure photos which set apart those huge faves from the others, Hinako is a prime example of that. The solo posts for Hinako kept rising, six in 2020 and then eight the following year, it peaked with sixteen in 2022! So she went from fifteen solo posts to 45 quite rapidly and another second generation member who graduated around the same time in 2022 also saw a huge spike in posts. But least her posts have remained fairly steady up until now and has been my #1 Nogi member for over two years. The year 2022 was a magical one for Hinako and perhaps the best year any of my faves have ever had! She finished in the third spot on the yearly faves list, in the second position on my 'All Time Top Twenty' list, had my top photobook for the year, was my number one Nogi member of all time plus was rather busy after her April graduation.

 Sigh, what I wouldn't pay to switch positions with her close mate!!!! But when the calendar flipped to 2023 Hinako's activities slowed to a crawl and I can't understand why? She was never one of Nogi's superstars but was probably the second most popular member of 2G and is such a likable woman so just can't understand why her activities slowed down so much. After having thirty solo posts from 2020-22 plus being featured in a few group posts Hinako has had only six since December 2022!!!! Three were in 2023 but only one the next year, this makes it two for this year and if you've been a long time visitor here you know there's only one woman who I enjoy doing posts for over Hinako. Who knows why she's slowed way with her activities, we don't know what goes through the next person's minds and perhaps she's grown a bit weary of being in show biz. Bet that's happened to so many thousands of ex-Idols, actresses or gravure models but sadly their options are limited on finding another career at an older age. Birthday #29 officially takes place on July 17th, that's not an old age but it is in a way if you want to do something new and perhaps Hinako is thinking of settling down to have a family but I haven't heard any rumors of her being with anyone and she has remained so close with many of her former second generation mates.

 Hope nothing above sounded negative for none of it was, am just kind of sad and disappointed we haven't seen that much of Hinako the least two years. I did gush about her so often in those opening segments and I have been such a fan of hers for over a decade so I could never say a bad word about her and I rarely say anything negative about any of my massive faves. So while there's so few recent photos and news this will be one ultra terrific post! I bet many reading this may not know much about Hinako so hopefully this will get you interested in checking out her many older posts. For today have some new pics though not nearly enough for me or her fans but do have some oldies which are new for here. Plus have some encore viewings of some fabulous things that have been forgotten about and overall this will be one super duper post and even if you've also been a long time follower of Hinako this may be your top post of the year! Though it's titled a Happy Birthday post those kinds are the same as others but try to make them a bit larger. and this post is certainly a huge one!

 Gulp, her 2G mates just can't get enough of Hinako and wish they would save something for me! Will begin off with this smallish batch of recent pics which are from her IG page, not a huge amount as she posts more of them at her fan club site. Am not going to talk about it too much as I'm only slightly interested and that's of her being associated with JRA Fun Club and she is wearing their shirt in a few below photos. That stands for the Japanese Racing Association and starting two years ago Hinako became kind of obsessed with horse racing, she hit some huge winners early on and then was hooked. Hinako does have a bi-weekly column in a racing paper where she picks winners and gives advice, she seems to be quite adept at that. She also co-hosts a YT show for the JRA Fun Club and there's no doubt that's a reason why she's slowed down on her entertainment activities. But Hinako was in a recent stage play titled "Spring Awakening", she's had large roles in plays and that's her fourth since leaving Nogi but her first since 2023.

 Hinako still looks mighty, mighty fine to me in so many of those above pics, the bottom one I did discuss a few days ago in a post for her 2G mate and what a trio that is!!!! Here's a batch of some super duper older Nogi cards and think almost all are new for here, perhaps they all are! It being July have some cards for the month but in between each year have some cards for Nogi's singles and am positive none of those cards have ever been posted. The four singles are for "Free and Easy" which is one of my all time fave Nogi singles, the other three are for "Taiyo Knock", then "Hadashi de Summer" which I think was Nogi's last classic single and the fourth in the batch is for "Nigemizu" from 2017.

 I really dig these older cards for all J-Pop groups and hope you're not tired of them yet! For have a few more which are birthday ones but these have been posted before but not since 2022 as that was the last time for a Hinako b-day post. The five pics before the last one are new for here as they're from her 2023 birthday and she did hold some sort of live talk session at her YT channel. Hinako doesn't have a huge amount of videos there but all are long and entertaining, will see if she has a new video(nope!) and if so may have it at the bottom of the post.

 

 Did say that Hinako would have been and was such a huge fave of mine even without her two photobooks but those did sent her zooming up to a level very few have ever obtained here! She does have such a kooky character about her which is another thing I adore about Hinako, while most members picked an obvious tourist location such as London, Paris, LA, etc. for a photobook she went to Sweden for her first one. Most of the pics below are from the photo shoot and she traveled very close to the Arctic Circle. Before the year ends will do a list for my top Nogi books, I'm just waiting to post their two most recent ones and as it stands now Hinako's 2022 book may edge the current #1 which has been in that position for five years!

 What's extremely odd is that four days ago mentioned a segment in the June 2020 'Nogi 46 Hours TV' special, those used to air twice a year and do they still have them? The reason it's odd is that I will mention that show again and hadn't done that once in five years.... now twice in four days?! Every member would have at least one solo segment that lasted over twenty minutes and often another segment or two with just one other member. Hinako's solo segment aired on June 20, 2020 which was day two of the special and what a fun segment she had, they were such a good way to know the members a bit better. Hinako loves such things as Animes, Mangas and Super Hero shows so of course with those interests she also must be a gaming fanatic! That she is and during her segment tried her hand at two games for the first time, below are some screenshots from it. If you want to check it out did recap her appearance in a July 12, 2020 post but recommend getting the subbed video from Beam Subs. Not sure if they're still around but they used to sub oddball things such as this show and perhaps it's on YT.

 Hinako did have the lead role in a late Summer 2022 drama and will have to admit I didn't care for it too much though she did well in it. She also was in two other dramas with medium sized roles but except for that recent play she hasn't done much else acting wise and bet being busy with horse racing is a big reason for that. After leaving Nogi Hinako had become a model for the Vannie U site and must have had over a hundred terrific modeling pics for them but none for two years. What that means is there's no new modeling pics nor magazine spreads so how about an oldie but goldie from the February 2019 issue of BLT, Hinako is hotter than the Sun but these are the kinds of pics which made me adore her to no end....😍

 This turned out to be one huge post and haven't almost all been this large recently? They have and though there's not as many posts as prior years the massive sizes of these posts do equal things out. Will end off with some beyond perfect sultry and seductive photos of Hinako, in all honesty I don't need all the fingers on one hand to count the amount of women who exceed her captivating looks! Sure Hinako has thought of it as her closest ex-Nogi mate Iori has done so which is to become a gravure model or at least try it out to see if that could be an option. At the age of 29 Hinako still looks magnificent but needs to make her mind up about things such as that quickly and being a gravure model has really helped out the careers of two ex-Nogi members. After the pics is a prime example of what a golden oldie is for it's a video from over eleven years ago and for the BLT magazine who had a series at the time called 'Nogi Quarterly'. Hinako set a new standard for kawaiiness in this video and that may have been when I first noticed her.... as the saying goes the rest is history!