Welcome to this Baka's blog on his fave Japanese Pop Culture interests.
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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!
Plus it's another post of Ayano saving the day as I was strapped for time and didn't think I would be able to do this or a different post. But recalled I did have some amazing photos all set up for an Ayano post which I was going to do next week but perhaps by doing this early there can be a second post for November? Actually could do many more than just one as there are so many older digital books of Ayano's that had never been posted here but at the most after today will only have 2-3 more of them and at times those books have been a savior for as days such as this. I also know you readers love these Ayano posts as she is extremely popular here though don't think she'll be number one in that category this year, am curious to find out who will be.
Ayano is now up to a dozen posts for 2026 so this has been her best year by far, for the second time she's qualified for the fave's list. The first time she didn't have a spot in the top twelve but she will this year and an early prediction is that Ayano will be in the eighth position which I think is impressive. That's because 23 women have the five or more posts needed to be eligible for the list and that's an increase of five from last year, there's a chance one more will reach five posts. So guess that means I really can't moan about my favorites not having enough posts, of those 23 women five are eligible for the first time but have been doing posts for them for a while or least have tried to.
Let's get to things and there should be about 110 photos that are brand new for here and of course all are certified to be Hotter than the Sun!!!! There's been very few recent IG pictures that Ayano has uploaded to her IG page recently so will skip those for today but these may be a better batch. Have been adding in pics from Ayano's photo shoots but have come close to having them all and are the first five pictures below it for them? Could be but Ayano also has some terrific older IG photos that had never been posted so have a set of them below, it's nice to see her dressed as a regular woman on occasion.
On July 25th Ayano released her fourth collection of trading cards and wish more gravure models would do the same. All of the sets have had over a hundred cards so for her posts have been adding in about a dozen and after today there should be at least five more batches.
Two weeks ago Ayano released her third official photobook but it seems to be a low key affair as there hasn't been enough promoting of it. There will be an event for it over the weekend and there was a small one ten days ago so perhaps can use those pictures for a second November post. Have posted about twenty promo photos for the book and these are more to promote it which hadn't been posted before.... well, that top one has for it could be my number one photo for 2026.... whewwww!!!!
Now on the pair of digital books, neither is new nor old but are chockful of cold shower inducing photos! My only semi-complaint is that she hasn't had many magazine spreads that have accompanied her books the past two years as that would have meant more posts and videos. This first set was released by the Young Jump magazine on September 25, 2025 and contains 49 photos, the book's title is "Secret Paradise" and what a paradise it would be stuck on an island with Ayano!
For this post's finale have this set from the WPB magazine that was released on May 11th of this year, at forty pictures it's one of her smaller books. Which has a title of "You Shouldn't Peek" and as if any of use wouldn't when it comes to Ayano?!!!! Following the book is a mini video from the photo shoot, did say Ayano would be in the top ten this year for the fave's list and that countdown will begin in less than a month.
