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Friday, April 4, 2025

Miria Watanabe: Her enchanting "Shougyokutekina Hanayakasa" photobook scans....

 


 It may sound hard to believe and sadly the pace probably won't keep up for too much longer. Which is of five Nogi second generation members having a post since March 1st, so many in a short amount of time had never happened and doubt if it ever will again. So often have said how the nine 2G members were my faves of the group, some did well while with Nogi and were popular to an extent but all in all they never got a huge push from management or at least after the third generation members came aboard. So all of the members from the first two generations are gone and have been since 2023, some 3G gals are starting to leave but am kind of surprised how many are left from that group.

 For a long time did say in Nogi group posts how I thought Miria was going to be one of the more popular members but that never worked out. To me she could be Nogi's most cutest member ever, no lower than second place and I really liked her for a long time. As a matter of fact I bet if you count up Miria's photos in Nogi posts from 2017-20 she had more than any other member and to me she was Nogi's second best blogger. Mirai is the youngest 2G member as she didn't hit the age of 25 until last November, at 153 cm she was also their shortest member. Hmmmm, don't know if I'm correct but as far as heights go Nogi probably has more 'average heights' than any other group, there aren't many members shorter than 155 cm nor are there too many taller than 165 cm.



 I enjoy a photo such as that one right above quite a bit, the pictures in books don't have to be 100% gravure and ones such as that pic get a grade of an A++++ from me! While with Nogi did do a pair of solo posts for Miria which were very popular. Even more well liked was a post done two years ago as Miria had a digital book for the WPB magazine and to me those pictures were tremendous so why haven't there been any more since???? Miria graduated from Nogi on August 31, 2021 and on that day this book was released. The title roughly translates over to Negative, Gorgeousness and surprised Kawaii wasn't used in the title. This book was a so-so seller as it sold 30,000 copies in it's first two months out which was somewhat respectable and most second generation books weren't massive sellers. Miria was born in Tokyo and some of the photo shoot took place there, she also lived for a while in Hokkaido and most of the pictures were taken there. These days Miria has been doing a lot of acting in stage plays, she's already been in two this year but how I wish she had a bit more exposure and her sunny smile is hard to top. This book contained 119 photos, will have one more Nogi book on June 1st but will there be any more after that?