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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!
That first pic is in the running to be my #1 photo of the year, don't have any kind of list for them but in my mind know the ones that get my blood boiling to the Nth degree and her photobook has many more in that vein! The title say 'Who better to end a month off with?' but hoping I can squeeze one more in for tomorrow, this isn't a large post but if I do this now can have time to work on one last October post. Do have at least three ready to go for November and those are for women who have had a decent amount of posts the last few months and been trying to spread those out. Let's get to things for today's honoree who at one time was the least popular woman here(!) and how that's changed the last five months!
Whew, how am I supposed to type with that pic staring me in the face?! As far as the title goes added in 'Once again' for the second time as this makes it three out of the last four months Suzuka has ended a month off with a post! Did just say at one time she was so unpopular here but she does have a few fans who joked around with me about that and are they still visiting here? It doesn't matter to me if a woman is popular with you viewers or not as I post about the gals I like, Suzuka 😍 could be my all time #1 woman who has flown below the radar and that's just not for her lack of popularity. If she had more posts and did some other activities such as doing regular modeling, being in more magazines or appearing more often at those huge fashion shows she could have been in the running to be in my top five of all time!!!! That's no exaggeration as not many members of Hina have more solo posts than her, think just a pair do. Suzuka's last three posts have been her most popular ones ever here and because of that her older posts have been receiving more views, even though none ever had gravure photos I thought all were more than super duper posts!
Even if Suzuka never released a photobook for her graduation she still would have been such a massive favorite of mine. But will confess those pics from the book were much better than I could have dreamt of and it meant..... Finally the world realized one reason why Suzuka 😍 is someone I have adored to no end for over four years! It was so difficult to do posts for her but she did average about four a year and is now up to twenty of them, this post may not be huge but her others are. Sure I could have made this post a bit larger but wanted to save a few things for future posts, such as having one in January for her birthday. Plus will have her photobook coming up soon and what a slow year it's been for them. Almost all of my favorite J-Pop Idols have left their groups so that's a reason there's been so few but least the books have been better than ever. On a side note finally a Hina member will be having a second book and will do a post next month for that gal.
The biggest reason by far for this only being a medium sized post is that Suzuka has been so quiet as of late, her official graduation date was August 5th and I don't think she's done anything since then. There's been no new photos added to her IG page, hasn't appeared at any events or in magazines plus I think she no longer is a co-host/reporter for the 'See You at the Circuit' show. That's for Formula One racing and Suzuka has been a huge fan of that sport for many years, am I wrong thinking she left the show? Suzuka did have a solo concert at the end of July which aired on MTV Japan, did have some screenshots from that two posts ago. Have more of them but let me hold on to those in case things are needed for her next post, after being an Idol for seven years sure Suzuka wanted a break but hope she doesn't carry it on for too long as the public has short memories! Especially for ex-Hina gals, it may seem impossible to believe but she's the only graduated member I've been able to do a post for!
Doesn't Suzuka have such an attractive face?!!!! I think she does and that's one reason it wouldn't have bothered me if she never had any gravure photos but now that she does.... WOWOWOWOW!!!! There's been no new IG pics since August so have zero of those for today nor has she opened a fan club or Twitter page but still should have a decent amount of pics for today, will say Quality over Quantity. Two days from now is of course Halloween and have some older pics here, as a bonus ten of them had never been posted before!
There were a lot of cards above that hadn't been posted, will have another batch here that's from Hina's 'Mysterious Library' web game. Noticed I had a good amount of them so why not have them again as I'm sure many of you viewers have never seen these before, I think the cards for this game are Hina's best and even top the ones for the 'Uni's on Air' game.
Have one mag spread that hadn't been posted and is from the August 12th issue of Flash. It's a small one with only four pages and was promoting Suzuka's first and sadly only photobook, can't understand why there weren't more spreads to promote it.
That being the only recent spread for today let's go back exactly four years and have an encore viewing of this set from the October 2021 edition of BLT Graph. From 2021-23 Suzuka did have a fair amount of solo spreads but after that they became so infrequent but that was also the case for most members of Hina and Keya.
Did say earlier that Suzuka rarely attends those huge fashion shows which is true but she has been at three in the past. One was the September 5, 2020 'Tokyo Girls Collection' Autumn show and over a dozen members were promoting the group's DASADA line of clothing which was also the title of their second drama. Once again this is a batch of pics that had never been posted before though doubt I'll be able to find many more in the future.
"Suzuhana Circuit" was the title of her first and probably only photobook, the title was a takeoff of her love of Formula One racing. The book was released on August 5th and that was also the official date of Suzuka leaving Hina, she had an event that day for the book and had many pics from it in her last post. The photo shoot took place on the Gold Coast of Australia, here are some ultra perfect promo and outtake pics that have been posted before.
Will end off with even more extraordinary pics from the photobook and these are all new for here, some are from the actual book while others from the photo shoots. If all else fails what a future Suzuka could have as a gravure model as these photos just may be my top ones of the year and are close to being unbeatable, now you know why I've been ga-ga over her for some years! Did say the first picture of the post could be the most amazing one of the year though the first one below could give it a run for the money, so couldn't the bottom two below along with the one right above.... WOWOWOWOWOW!!!! No new videos these past few months and that's been a huge problem for most J-Pop groups these days. So after the dazzling pics is Suzuka's final video with Hina which I did have before, she's with her other second generation mates and there's only four of them left, this was streamed live on July 28th.