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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!
Back to back posts for an ex-SKE member, even when I was doing many posts for the group doubt if there were ever two in a row. The ex-member in the next post has quickly become everyone's darling and why not as her hotness is sky high. Yet long time visitors know that hardly anyone tops Akari 😍 in my eyes and perhaps zero do as she's probably my #1 woman of all time! For many years she was knocking on the door to be number one and seems her goal was to be Nao's #1 and she succeeded! Wouldn't think any other women would topple her for a while and in August 2026 will be doing my 'Top Twenty Faves Of All Time' list, that's sixteen months away so of course many things can happen between now and then though am praying it doesn't....
Did that above picture's caption two years ago when Akari went on a dating show as for by the age of 31 she had never been on a regular date! She's now 33 in age and still think that being dateless has continued though sure there must be millions who would line up to be with her.... behind me! Back in 2023 Akari was my #1 Queen of the year, in 2018 and 2024 she finished second on the yearly faves list, for 2025 she's right in the mix again to be number one. This may be the best year ever for women battling out for the top spot, there's at least three in the mix and I wouldn't be shocked if the total increases to five!
In keeping in the spirit of things Akari is now up to 76 posts and for a while never thought she would even hit forty. It was so difficult to do posts for SKE members from 2019 to 2022, actually in a way you could say until now! But after her November 2022 graduation her activities really increased which has happened to a few other ex-Idols I post about. Some groups have fifty or more members so it's easy to get overlooked though I don't think she ever was, perhaps the virus had a huge effect on SKE activities. So at this pace Akari may hit a hundred posts at the end of 2026 and in my wildest dreams never thought that would happen but I do work so much harder doing posts for her over anyone else. But I am starting to run out of older things that had never been posted here before, not worried yet as it seems I can always pull something out of my sleeve....
This is one of those 'Spur of the moment posts', when I get the urge to do a post for someone nothing will stop me! Will also say once again that learning how to set a time/date has been so helpful, this and the other two posts for far for April were written up over the weekend and after they were complete just set a date for it to be published. Enough blabbering and let's get to the meat of the post, not a lot of sections but there may be over fifty new pics for today. First off are these older Akari SKE cards for the month of April and think they're all new for here. What I often do is work backwards with cards going from newest to oldest, for today did the opposite as these begin with 2011 and it just occurred to me these are fourteen years old!
Seven weeks ago Akari released her second regular photobook which is titled "Pluie", think to date it's sold around 5,000 copies. Akari's first book from 2018 is one of my all time favorites and can't understand why the sales for it were so low. There's been a few magazine spreads to promote the new book though most have been way too small. Do have a brand new set here from the April 4th issue of Friday, had a clean version of the first pic at the top of the post.
Though Akari doesn't appear in nearly as many magazines as she once did the spreads are often top notch but at times too small. Last year she had my #1 spread of the year and it was also her best one to date along with the video from the photo shoot. Here's my second favorite mag spread of hers that's from the October 2022 issue of Bubka which was her last spread while with SKE, while the spread gets a grade of an A++++ what I have below are pictures from the photo shoot as they were somehow better than the spread!!!!
Above were some pics of Akari at a Mahjong table, she really loves that game and below are also some semi-Mahjong pics. Which are from the M League show which covers the pro league and she is a co-host of a weekly show. Often end her posts with many pics form her IG page as they're always so terrific, not going to do that today though these new photos are certainly fabulous and especially the top four. Akari is well known around Japan and of course much of that popularity is for being a member of SKE but in the Nagoya area she seems to be a superstar, she hails from nearby Aichi. Many of the photos below are from her doing activities to promote the area, she is a huge fan of baseball and does often attend Chunichi Dragons games.
Those above were some superb photos and will end off with another batch of them though they're a bit different as these are alluring to the Nth degree! Hmmmm, just remembered that Akari did throw out the first pitch at a dragons game and forget if I had posted those already? After these beyond perfect pics is a video from the event that was held for her second book, did post a video but this is a different one. Akari has never been all that popular here and wonder why(?), realize her figure isn't as bodacious as other Idols or gravure models but I have a hard time thinking of many any who are more attractive and hotter than she is!!!!