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Saturday, December 27, 2025

Miku Tanaka: Her searing new 'Young Gangan' digital book #1 plus a few other treats....

 


 I was just thinking it's kind of amazing what Miku has done here in such a short amount of time. Do have that rule about someone being 22 in age before I begin to post about them but have made a few exceptions over the years for that special woman. In September 2022 Miku celebrated her 21st birthday, a month later I did her first ever post and I had been biding my time as I had known of Miku for a while. So beginning with that first post you could say the rest is history as in 38 months she's had 57 posts and no other woman can top that figure.... or Miku's figure! In that span she's finished in the ninth, sixth, first and seventh spots on the yearly fave's list, this is already her third post for the 'Nao Year' that began on December 1st so it appears Miku wants to be my #1 Queen again for 2026!!!!



 Miku did have an excellent chance of being my repeat #1 until June, then the posts really slowed down for her so that wiped out any chances of being number one again and a few other women also had a slow second half of the year. The title says book #1 as two came out on the same day so will have that in 2-3 weeks, this actually is the slowest time of the year for books and magazine spreads. The thing I'm going to become very curious about soon is where will Miku end up on my 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list which I do every four years. The countdown will begin in August and seeing as how Miku already has such an impressive track record here she should finish way up there. However longevity is also important and most if not all who will be in the top ten have been having posts for well over five years. So if Miku doesn't crack the top ten that would be the main reason and while I have a good idea on who most of the twenty fabulous women will be figuring out their positions will be so difficult.


 
 Wasn't planning on doing this post for another week as Miku has already had a pair for December but the other post I was hoping to do today didn't work out so well. After today there's only three more days to go in 2025 so this will be Miku's final post for the year, she's averaged seventeen posts a year since 2022 and how long can she keep that pace up? Not many things besides the new book and that's to be expected when someone has three posts in a month, first up are these pics from her IG the past week. Two are of Miku with her hair dyed blonde and do they have more fun(?), those are from her recently completed latest drama. The bottom one is for an upcoming January 13th fan club event and she does hold many of them. The top two are also from Miku's fan club site and that top photo.... gulp.... gulp again.....








 Of course most of Miku's photos here are of her dressed a bit scantly and why not as her figure is too sweltering to believe plus it's made her quite popular. But Miku also looks terrific dressed in everyday clothes such as the batch below which are from a new interview with TheTV.jp site. She discusses her first solo single, her latest drama where she dyed her hair blonde, how her career has been since leaving HKT and also a few other subjects, here's the link to the interview: TheTV.jp site











 In Miku's last post which was for her finishing in the seventh position on the fave's list discussed "Moto Moto" which I thought was a new line of clothing she would be modeling. Well, I was far off base with that as it's the title of Miku's first solo single that was released the day before Christmas and it's nice to see her putting out singles, wish more ex-Idols would do that. Below are the two covers for it and after them is the PV for the tune, hope you're allowed to embed it. The song is a techno one, I'm not a huge fan of that genre but least those songs are usually upbeat and exciting, this song is a decent one and so isn't the video which features a.... werewolf? PS: At first Miku's posts were very popular here but then the views they received tumbled way down. But what a comeback Miku made in 2025 as she was the second most popular woman here and that's by how many views her posts got so it appears no one is getting tired of so many posts for Miku....

 EDIT: You can't embed the video so here's the link to it: "Moto Moto" PV





 This is a very rare post as it's one with no new Miku magazine spreads and wonder how many she's appeared in over the last five years? Sure the total is many more than any other (ex)J-Pop Idol turned gravure model, there being no new ones means there should be many coming out in January. So before we get to the book will have an older spread from earlier this year and the March 12th issue of Young Gangan.















 The Young Gangan magazine released this new book which was on December 19th, actually two came out that day and both are completely different. This holiday is so slow for new mag spreads so Miku may be in one of their January issues to promote the books. This set contains 62 photos which to me are of course so dazzling, there's no video from the photo shoot but after the pics have a different video from the magazine. The one thing I would like to see Miku do more of in 2026 is release more videos from her photo shoots.































































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