Ayame Tsutsui: At last.... Her highly anticipated first intro post!!!!

 

 That post title is right on the money as at least three readers have asked for Ayame to have posts plus two others have been dying to see her photobook, that will be coming up soon. I do have a story for most things and often it doesn't put me in a good light! Over a year ago I truly was planning on having many posts for Ayame but many could have been so difficult as that's the case for all current Nogi members but that's not the point. Which is that I thought Ayame was a year younger than she is and last year did create a new rule for ages. Which is that if any woman has a DOB after February 17, 2005 will never do a post for them and that's birthday Ayame's Nogi mate Nagi Inoue who has Nogi's top ever photobook! For some reason had been thinking Ayame was born in June 2005 which meant she was four years younger and that did bum me out as I was looking forward to these posts. But then discovered that once again I was wrong as her DOB is June 8, 2004 so Ayame is actually eight months older than Nagi and she celebrated birthday #22 over two months ago! But the mistake does have a silver lining as it is harder to do posts these days and think I can do 3-4 for Ayame before the year ends.

 The plan is to have Ayame's utterly perfect first photobook on September 1st, I've had it for a year and while 2025 had the so fewer books the quality of them was higher than ever. In almost any other year Ayame's book would have been my number one for the year yet for 2025 it was only third on my list, beating her out was her Nogi mate mentioned above and a Hina46 gal. To me Ayame has been such an easy member to notice and she has been my second favorite of the fourth generation, she's the youngest of that group. Time does fly and wasn't that the title of a Nogi album? Bring that up for this December will make it eight years since the fourth generation members were introduced and hard to believe it's been so long! At the time in December 2018 Nogi was at their largest as far as members go and that's why the mass exodus soon began, the same thing happened with Hina46. Ayame hails from Nagoya and wonder if she ever thought about trying out for SKE as that's their home base. Ayame doesn't look too tall but her height is 160 cm or about 63 inches which is taller than I thought.

 Won't be going back before 2025 for Ayame's photos and such but should be able to do four posts by the end of the year, may have a pair of 2024 magazine spreads but that would be it for pre-2025 pictures. As I mentioned at the top it really is much harder to do posts for current Nogi members, they group is still popular but the members don't do as many solo activities nor do they have that 'mega superstar' these days. Ayame does do more activities than most members as she does a lot of acting, is a model for the Bis magazine, appears at most of those large fashion shows plus has her own radio show. I really like the way Ayame looks plus how she has a bit of 'spunk' to her as she has been outspoken at times which to me is a positive. Not sure how many photos there will be for today but sure the total will be quite a few and there will be a little bit of a lot of things.

 The above seven pictures and the eight below are from Ayame's first and only photobook "Kanjou no Sukima" which was released on June 3, 2025 which was five days before her 21st birthday. The photo shoot took place in Spain and the last photobook I posted also was set there. On September 1st will be posting the book and believe it when I say it's a true masterpiece, not just the gravure photos but Ayame even looks so fabulous just roaming the streets of Barcelona and Mallorca.

 Ayame has her own IG page but doesn't post enough solo photos but least they're so fantastic, they also get posted at the Nogi blog.

 One thing I've never figured out is why some '46' members have so many group cards while their peers may only have half that amount? Popularity has nothing to do with it and that goes for all three '46' groups, below are most of Ayame's cards for 2025 and she's one that has so many fewer of them than any other member, the same goes for this year too.

 Ayame has been a model for the Bis magazine since February 2022 but won't have any of those photos for today and need to save some things for her next regular post. The Fashion Tech site has a feature where they interview Nogi members about their fashions likes, where they shop, etc. etc. and the photos below are from the interview. Ayame seems fairly down to earth and doesn't go for a flashy style, here's the link to the somewhat lengthy interview: Fashion Tech site

 There just isn't enough time to view and recap all of the dramas/movies that I would like to, am whittling my cache down but it'll years to get it to zero! I do have this 2025 drama "Ryosangata Ruka: Puramo Buin no Aoki Gyakushu", it's the third season of the series. The first two starred Yuki Yoda and the show is mainly about the hobby of making models which I found to be so enjoyable. For season three there were a pair of Nogi gals who had the leads, they were Ayame and Haruka who is my current favorite member. I did watch the first two shows and have all ten episodes which are subbed, eventually will get to it but can't give an ETA on when that will happen. On August 8th Haruka celebrated her 25th birthday but without a doubt she's the most difficult Nogi member to do a post for which is so odd for she is quite popular.

 Did say that Ayame is usually at those largish fashion shows, the next one will be taking place in September 26th. On March 14th she was at the Spring 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show that was held at the Yoyogi National First Gymnasium in Tokyo. Ayame always looks so terrific at these shows, for this one she took her stroll in the Darich stage.

 Will end off here with this tremendous newish magazine spread which featured Ayame as the cover girl for the June issue of BLT. It could be her largest spread to date, there's no gravure photos which you never see unless a member has a photobook but she looks so overly oki-doki to me in these photos! Nogi has their own member's YT streaming channel and after the pics have a video from the Summer of 2024. Nogi was on tour at the time, of all things Ayame worked an afternoon at a food truck/cafe and what makes the video so special is who she worked with(!) plus it's subbed in English.