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Thursday, July 3, 2025

Sayumi Michishige: Her colorful and elegant... "Sayuminglandoll" photobook scans.... a repost

 

 
 Think I do tend to repeat myself too often and see what getting older has done to me! Least my repeat for today is positive as once again will say what a nice feature Blogger has in able to set a date and time for when a post will be published. My last eight posts have all been written up in advance and it took me over a dozen years to notice that feature, don't think Blogger has as many as Wordpress but too late to change and think you may get charged having a blog at Wordpress. Being able to write up posts early has helped me out immensely this last year and especially around the holidays. And of course here in America we do have a holiday weekend and will be busy at least one of those day so won't be here but nice knowing I can write these up in advance so a day doesn't have to be skipped and just hope there are things I can do posts for....

 This is the third of four(five?) older Sayumi photobooks which I'm reposting. One was because I got a better version of a book and three others are because I had divided a book up into two posts when one was all that was needed. Plus it's nice to revive the memory of some of my older faves who have been forgotten about such as Sayumi who does have a solid core of fans here. Hard to believe but in ten days she'll be hitting the age of 36, that's not an old age but it didn't seem all that long ago when Sayumi was in her young twenties!


 So will have one or perhaps two more of these photobook reposts coming up though not for a few more weeks. A few months back Sayumi did say she would be retiring from show biz due to health issues and will be having a final tour. So as of now don't know what the exact dates are for the tour or her retiring so was thinking of having a birthday post about a week after she hits the age of 36 which will be on July 13th. For that post will have whatever and have no plans yet what it will include but will have info in what her plans will be until her dreaded retirement occurs. On to the book and this is such an odd one but I think this is so much better than your regular Idol gravure book. For her eighth photobook Sayumi said she wanted to explore her 'playful and cute' side so as you'll see the Doll in the title means she dressed up that way for most pics, such as some being Alice from Wonderland! Sayumingdoll has also been the title of some of her solo albums and four DVD's, she does kind of give off a doll-like vibe at times or least when she was younger. This book was released on October 27, 2011 which was about three years before Sayumi's departure from Morning Musume. This book contains 65 photos and while it may not be for everyone I think these pics are so superb as it can get tiring of looking at gravure pics all the time from Idol books. You do have to admit Sayumi looks Kawaii to the Nth degree in this book and expect her next post in about three weeks.... if I can remember and wonder if she also has memory issues for we are about the same age....































































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