Yui Kobayashi: Another post in the 𝑰 𝒄𝒂𝒏'𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒄𝒂𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒚 𝒕𝒊𝒕𝒍𝒆 series....

 

 Could have also titled this 'Just because I really, really, really wanted to do a post for her' but used that two days ago and came close to using it for the previous post. Sometimes I get in that mood where I can't get enough of my all time favorites, November has been a good month for them as three who are in my top six of all time have had a post this last week. It is another slow stretch and guess for a a few minor blips could say that the entire 2025 has been one long slow stretch but unlike other bloggers Nao here never gives up! Been able to do at least one post a day for this month and have said a few times while the quantity of posts is decreasing what's increasing is their quality and size!

 I can never get enough of that photo right above which for over five years has been my #1 of all time, how many hours have I gaped at it???? There's no award for it but if there was for the 'Comeback Woman of the Year' would bestow that honor upon Yui! After her graduation from Keya in early February 2024 she went on a hiatus for over six months and hate to admit it but was I down in the dumps to the Nth degree as I thought she may have retired from show biz! Whew, luckily that didn't happen as in late August of 2024 Yui did make her return and slowly her activities did increase though they weren't nor will ever be at the level they were at while with Keya. But then another slowish period happened from mid-December until March as I couldn't do a post for Yui for almost a dozen weeks. Her first post for 2025 wasn't until March but this now makes it nine consecutive months with a post and there's been twelve posts done in that period of time! Twelve posts is Yui's third highest total for a year and they've all been ultra terrific so that's why if there was a Comeback award she would have been the winner by a country mile this year!

 This will make it six consecutive years Yui 😍 has made the fave's list, that's the current longest streak and the record is seven which is held by a pair of women. The previous five years, 2020-24, her positions have been tenth, eleventh, FIRST(!), third and sixth which is a yearly average of being in the sixth spot. The eleventh position happened in 2021 and it's because Yui had gone on hiatus from early September until Keya's two Christmas concerts in December so that meant over three months with no new photos or activities. So actually that position isn't too bad considering what happened, looking back on it the tenth spot in 2020 should have been at least two positions higher but have also said that about many other women. For 2025 have no clue where Yui will end up but being able to do posts for her once again on a consistent basis has brought such a grin to my face. She may not occupy the throne for being my number one Queen of all time but could if Yui becomes a bit busier and though I try to be unbiased when it comes to my fave's lists am silently rooting for her to make it to number one!!!!

 It's been a semi-quiet stretch for Yui over the past month but she was very busy from late July up until mid-October. She released her first ever mini album which was the fifth best seller it's first week out, it was a decent album but wish she rocked out more! Yui also attended three of those huge fashion shows during that stretch of time, did some modeling work, appeared on at least five TV shows doing songs from her album plus did a handful of interviews. So she had been busy for a stretch though wish we saw more modeling pics, also more photos at her IG page plus we need her to start appearing in magazines again, from 2018 to early 2021 no Keya member had more spreads than Yui. For today don't have a huge amount of recent pics but did work hard on getting some older photos that had never been posted here before, that was a success as there may be about 35 of those kinds of pics plus will have some oldies so they don't become forgotten....

 First up are these recent pics from Yui's Twitter page but she posts the under the name of Yousti for that's the name she uses for her singing career. It's a combo between her name and an Ostrich, will have the link to a recent interview where she discusses that. This has been it from the past three weeks and wish she had more for these photos are so tremendous, don't know how but Yui 😍 becomes more attractive by the day! Top pic is from October 23rd when she celebrated her 26th birthday.

 That interview just mentioned was with the Get Navi site and took place on September 4th, didn't notice that until today. The below pics are from the interview and have the link to it, Yui discussed where her stage name came from, a bit about her six month hiatus after graduating from Keya plus a bit more and this was one of her more interesting interviews: Get Navi interview

 Don't think there will be any of those huge fashion shows until the January, the first one of a year usually takes place in Shizuoka and then there's 3-4 in the Spring. The pics below are from the January 14, 2023 Shizuoka show and having them again for a good reason.

 That good reason is after the show Yui did an interview with the CM Now site, that was another thing I somehow had missed until today! That's rare for me to miss anything of Yui's for I check up on any possible new activities every day and how did I miss this? The below pics are from the site and there's more there, you can check those out and read the interview with this link: CM Now site

 Yui is a model for the andGirl site but hasn't had too many new photos the last two months, there are a few recent ones that are her best of the year! But there's only a small amount of them so will have those and any other upcoming pics in her next post. So let's have an encore viewing of these tremendous pics from the With site, Yui had been a model for them from July 2018 until June 2023. She had and still does have many super duper pics at their site and these are from the Spring of 2021, one day I should have a post for Yui's top pics but when all are so superb how can you whittle it down to fifty or so?

 Won't have any regular older group cards for today as I've used most of them up. Instead have a much better set of cards which are promo ones for Keya's older web game 'Keyaki no Kiseki' which translates over to 'The Story of Keya46'. The game ended a little before October 2020 when the group changed their name to Sakura, these fabulous cards are from 2018 when she was twenty in age and I think all of these had never been posted before! I have such a huge folder of Yui's photos and these weren't in it nor do I recall ever seeing these before so as far as new yet older pics go this could be her best post to date for those. As you can see the bottom eight are for the current season of Autumn.... well, that's what the calendar says but where I am the temperature has already dipped into the twenties..... nothing like some stupendous Yui 😍 photos to warm us up then!!!!

 Yui isn't the most unpopular woman here and none of her last 25 posts have received a thousand views and that's hard to believe as it may be a record she doesn't deserve! At one time Yui's posts did get many views but that's sadly changed, of course the huge reason is a lack of new gravure photos. So will end off with my usual batch of Yui's 😍 perfection and how many top her under the radar sultriness(?), none to me and how I would love to see her have a digital book even if didn't contain gravure pics. Did mention Yui uses the stage name of Yousti for her musical career, she has a YT channel under that name. On November 8th she added in a new video of her promoting the album at the Tower Record store in Chiba, she looks so fabulous and do recommend viewing the video which is after these photos.