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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....Ruka Kitano.... 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!
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Tuesday, February 10, 2026
Mizuki Fukumura: Her blistering "Hatachi" photobook(a repost) plus much more.... top post of the year?!!!!
The kinds of posts I do tend to come in streaks, that's been the case much more than usual as of late but least the posts have all been so super duper! This makes it four posts already this month for a Hello Project member, very rarely do they have that many in an entire month! The first three were for birthdays and that's not the case for this today but out of all the H!P gals I've posted about Mizuki has been the most popular member of all time and can't blame you viewers for that as she's one of my all time top J-Pop Idols. Besides reposting this sweltering photobook have some other goodies and this is the third post I've done early in a year for Mizuki where I've had in the title 'Top post of the year' or something similar to that. Gulp, no words are needed for the below GIF, gulp again....
Mizuki is one of the few Hello Project members I've been able to do posts for after they've graduated. Not sure of her official duties but know she works at their main office, think as kind of a mentor to newbies and helping out all of their groups. Mizuki was with Morning Musume for a little over thirteen years so she sure has a lot of knowledge to pass along as far as being an Idol goes but even after graduating she's remained somewhat busy. Last month Mizuki did hold a few solo shows and while she'll never be as popular as she was with Morning Musume her solo career is doing well, last November she even had a pair of dazzling photobooks plus a single earlier in 2025. Later on this year Mizuki will be hitting the age of thirty, it truly doesn't seem that long ago when she celebrated her 20th birthday but as I've said often about my massive favorites she really does look better at a slightly older age.
I will be enjoying creating that list for my 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list, the countdown will begin in August. While I am looking forward to it the list won't be all that easy, especially for some women such as Mizuki. Had things turned out a bit differently she easily could have been my number one for many years by now and she'd still be in the top ten for many lists. But where Mizuki will end up on that All Time list is so puzzling, she could end up in the eighth position but then again perhaps ten spots below that! There's a few other women who are in the same predicament though Mizuki π is #1 in that smallish group, a few more posts over the next six months will help Mizuki out and will do some sort of preliminary post next month for the list.
Whew, as far as Hottest Idols of All Time goes Mizuki π would be way up there on the list, think about the fourth spot is where she would end up and she would even top her 10/10 Morning Musume comrade! There's much more to this post than the photobook which is a large one so when all is said and done this could be the hugest post of the year.... and most hottest! First up are these Mizuki photos from the last seven weeks she posted at her IG page, the first five are from January 18th to the 20th when she held six concerts at the Cotton Club and I can also recall C-ute having a terrific show there. The bottom two are from Mizuki's 2026 calendar, the two above that were from an online session held three days for it so sadly there may not be an event next month for it.
Have rarely posted any of Mizuki's Morning Musume cards but I do have quite a few of them. What I need to do is organize them better so that'll be a project to work on and just hope there's some new things coming up so I don't have to wait six months before posting some. The first five are from Mizuki's last two photobooks while a MM member, the others are Winter cards for 2019/18 and most are for the group's singles.... whew again and how about that first card?! Doesn't Mizuki π have such a tantalizing gaze and I know much about gazing for I do that often to her photos....
For this "Hatachi" photobook there was only one small magazine spread to promote it which was from the August , 2017 issue of SPA!. Mizuki has never had many spreads to promote her books which is odd for she used to appear in so many magazines.
How about another spread from that year and Mizuki was the cover girl for the March 17, 2017 edition of Young Gangan. She's been their cover girl at least a dozen times and those photos are awful close to being the top spreads of all time!!!! Hmmm, just popped into my tiny brain why not have a post or two for those beyond perfect spreads and that'll be a project I'll relish working on!
Three days after the book was released there was an event for "Hatachi", it was Mizuki's fourth book and she is now up to a dozen. The title refers to her hitting the age of twenty yet when the book came out on July 15, 2017 Mizuki was only 3 1/2 months shy of celebrating her 21st birthday so that book had been on ice for a while.
This is another of those instances where I did a repost because the book needed to be combined into one post instead of two plus the pictures are in better order. Not many more superlatives I can think of for Mizuki,π the way she looks neat the top in that white bikini just sends me to seventh heaven and there oughta be a law someone can be so alluring!!!! There's 89 pics to this book and there's also a tremendous video but it's not on YT any longer. So after the pics is a video for Mizuki's 2022 photobook "Glance", if you do plan on viewing it get that cold shower ready first.... WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!
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