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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!
Final month of the 14th 'Nao Year', I never did have any goal or idea on how long this blog would last but fourteen years is way longer than I would have predicted. It's not a somber beginning to the post but just a thought that popped into my head a minute ago and to this day still have no clue how long this blog will continue. Which in a way is like an old Relic or Dinosaur as almost every blog that had a somewhat similar theme has bitten the dust and that has bummed me out a bit as I enjoy reading what other bloggers create. Starting in the 2000's and up until the late 2010's seemed Japanese animes, mangas, dramas and movies were so popular in America and there never was any problem finding whatever at a store. But that bubble burst some years back and maybe it was a gradual thing which I never noticed though miss those days of popping into my terrific local indie CD/DVD store to find some obscure film(s). So like the days of T-Rex sooner or later things will come to an end here and the main reason will be for lack of women to post about as the amount of them are dwindling way too fast for me.
It's so odd that when I'm about to begin a post my brain seems to go into hyperactive drive and so many thoughts pop out of nowhere! In about a week to ten days will do a post for this year's fave's list which will be the eleventh, sure hope it happens! For the amount of women to hit six posts for a year will be at an all time low, there's been no problem with my top favorite women as most of them have ten or more posts. In 2022 the amount of women to hit six posts was 28, by 2024 that dropped to seventeen. For this year doubt if a Baker's Dozen will be topped so may have to create a new way of doing the list and will muse about things in that upcoming post. It's been a foregone conclusion for a while that Akari π will be my number one women for 2025 and that's the second time it's happened, she's also finished in the second position twice. The top seven spots will be as strong as ever but after that is what worries me though it shouldn't as things have a way of working out here.
No wedding bells for Akari and if it does happen bet not for a few more years, as far as I know she still hasn't gone on her first regular date!!!! Sigh, if that's the case Akari's obviously lost my phone number again.... on purpose????! Birthday #34 took place yesterday but always take the final day of a month off, this will be a very large post but ones for someone's birthdays are usually not much different than regular posts. Four more weeks to go in the 2025 'Nao Year' and this makes it 25 posts for Akari this year. She'll lead the pack with the most and also did so in 2023, doubt if anyone has had more posts than Akari since the Spring of 2022. In that year the record for the most posts was set and that figure is 26, can it be broken this month? If I was a betting man my prediction would be to bet NO but then again in a way the bet could be for YES! What I mean is Akari will have one more post this month to tie the record of 26 but can't seen her having that one more to have the record all by herself. It's not impossible for Akari but would rather see two massive faves share the record and sure most reading this could care less if she breaks it or not!
Said that final thought above for Akari has once again slipped into last place as far as least popular women here goes. Wish it wasn't the case and still don't have a concrete answer to why that would be, how many others can top photos like those right above? Not many if any to me but guess that's not the case with you viewers but have often said how (un)popular a woman is here has never affected how hard I work at having posts for them. Have a feeling the posts for Akari may be slowing down a bit once we get to 2026, many of these have quite a few photos from years past that have never been posted before. But the supply of them isn't endless and my cache is getting much smaller but even if the amount of posts go from 26 to about sixteen per year can live with that. For today have a somewhat giant amount of pics but don't think there will be as many sections as usual but then again once I start posting about Akari π it's hard for me to stop....
Let's get on with things, once I start to ramble about Akari seems it's impossible to stop and in a way glad of that! This month Akari will be releasing her second solo calendar, there will be two events in December to promote it. In her last post had the first three pics below which are from the calendar's photo shoot, have two more new ones below and how about that bottom pic.... WOWOWOWOW! There's also going to be a forty minute DVD in the deluxe package and that could be Akari's first ever DVD from a photo shoot.
An under the radar activity Akari just wrapped up was appearing in a mini web drama for DMM called "Once Upon a Time", mini as an episode was only for a minute or two. I've never seen any of the shows and wouldn't know where to find them as they're not on YT. Akari played the character of Momoko and it was her first time playing a mother, she's had the lead role in two stage plays but this was the first time playing the lead in a drama. It wasn't a well known show but it's a start and hope it leads to bigger roles, there were thirty two minute shows and it aired in September, early October.
It being November have plenty of older SKE cards for the month, still have many you've never seen but that's not going to be the case for too much longer. Most of these are new for here as I often post someone's newest cards, these aren't as they go from 2011-15.
Wrote the above up on October 31st, it's now the first day of November and in a surprise Akari didn't add in any photos for her birthday to her IG page.... yet! What I'm thinking is that she may hold a party this week for her fan club members though didn't see any news of that, perhaps that info is only at the site? If a celebration is held that would mean a slew of new pics and that could be the start of Akari's record breaking 27th post! Have some older birthday photos here and six had never been posted before.
Even more older yet new for here photos as this set from the October 2014 issue of Bomb had never been posted before! Every now and again do luck out finding mag spreads such as this one but there can't be many if any left that had been missed. Akari's partner in the spread is someone I hadn't thought of in eons and that's the case for many other ex-AKB gals who were with them over a decade ago....
Once again won't end off a post with a massive amount of IG photos from Akari's IG page as there's one more set after this. These have all come out in the last dozen days and could have had even more of them, has any (ex)J-Pop Idol posted as many pics as Akari has over the years? Probably not but even if someone has doubt if their quality is at such a Zenith as these close to perfect pics, all are simply tremendous but think my faves are the first ones or..... all....
Lately for the finales have been posting many overly sweltering(to me!) photos of Akari in an attempt to garner her some new fans. That doesn't seem to have worked but when it comes to her there is no quit from me!!!! No new videos so have after the pics have an older one from her YT channel, it's a good one of her slightly cosplaying and don't understand why Akari doesn't keep that site updated. She seems to love staying close with her fans so why not a new video every week?
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