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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...Yui Kobayashi... Miku Tanaka... Nagi Inoue....Maria Makino.... 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!
This may not be too large of a post but there was no way I could ever forget Nene's 😍 birthday even though as the title says it's not an overly joyous one. I don't think Nene has retired from gravure modeling yet she's done only one photo shoot this year which was not a solo mag spread and digital book but one she shared with two other women. Nene's modeling really began to slow down about a year ago but she had enough photos amassed by magazines to keep the spreads and digital books coming for a while, now it appears that supply is almost deleted.
So there hasn't been any new solo magazine spreads since early February and no books since January. Nene's last post here was done five months ago and she's never had such a stretch with zero since her intro post was done in December 2020. As a matter of fact no woman had more posts for the next five years than Nene and it's not just me who became so smitten with her but you viewers too as her posts have always been so popular and she's so well liked in Japan also. In March 2022 Nene did graduate from college and I had wondered for a while if she would ever put that degree to use and up until now the answer would be NO as her show biz career has gone so well. No woman had more or more alluring photos than Nene did over that five year stretch mentioned and a gravure model's career seldom last over the amount of time except for the more popular ones and Nene is definitely in that group. But it's not just Nene's photos that have sent me to Seventh Heaven as she does seem to be such a likable and intelligent woman, even if she has or is about to say sayonara to her gravure career I'll still try to do posts for her but that hasn't been possible for the past five months.
I've done a huge amount of posts for so many sizzling and magnetic gravure models but out of all of them for a while my #1 has been Nene 😍!!!! She still is number one and will be for a while but if she's retired from that kind of modeling it allows others to catch up and one list I've never thought about doing until now is of my top gravure models. There's so many thousands out there yet I've only posted about a handful of them and I seem to like the more 'refined and intelligent' types of models as many have been like Nene and attended college. For now it's up in the air what I'm going to do with the yearly fave's list and also the third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list, that was going to start next month but have put it on hold for a while. The last four years Nene has finished in the top six on the yearly list and as far as the All Time list went I was thinking she'd be around the fifth or sixth spots but with this long gap of inactivity will she still have such a high position?
A gravure model has never been number on a yearly list but Nene has been in the second and third positions and that's a feat which may never happen again for a model. Obviously there's very little new things to include in today's post but there are some you've never seen before plus I bet most of the older things for today will have been forgotten about, there's no way I'll ever let the spirit of Nene be forgotten here! Will begin off with some birthday photos from the past and she's never posted many of them at her IG page nor does she post many other kinds of photos.
Nene's acting career has picked up a bit this year, she's appeared in one web drama which I would have viewed except it wasn't subbed. She's done some guest appearances on a few other dramas plus has been appearing on more variety shows and has her own YT channel where she often discusses food. Here are some new pics which are from her IG page and as you notice none are from any recent photo shoots, Nene has never said she's retired from gravure modeling and sure so many others are wondering if that sad day of no more gravure photos has arrived....
Nene's last major magazine spread and also her last time as a solo cover girl were from the January 30th issue of Friday, it was seen before but is so terrific it needs an encore viewing.
A week after the above mag spread these pictures were added at the Friday site and were from the photo shoot. There's only fourteen pics but all hadn't been posted before and there aren't many Nene photos that aren't here!!!!
Let's take another trip down Memory Lane with this ultra fantastic spread that's now three years old and is from the August 7, 2023 issue of WPB. Nene's spreads and books are truly close to being perfect, it's a shame there may be no more things from the past that I've overlooked. Nene's first gravure spread was with the WPB magazine and they also published her first digital book.
Will end off with a large set of sweltering photos and has any woman the past six years had as many Hotter than the Sun pics as Nene has? If she has retired from gravure modeling it's a shock she didn't have a farewell photobook for the sad occasion, a few other actress/models have had those kinds of books. It's almost impossible to select which Nene photo shoot video is her best as she has about a hundred that are must watches! After these dazzling pics is one from last August and it was for her first time being the cover girl of Young Magazine.