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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 was another day I was stuck on thinking Who can I do a post for? and the options were practically nil. Which meant it was a perfect time for cleaning out my massive amount of picture folders and often when that happens I discover things that had been forgotten about. Such as a mini Rena digital book that came out earlier this year and I've had it for many months but she's someone I don't think about as often these days. If you're somewhat of a newbie to this blog there's a huge amount of women who were once huge favorites of mine and for whatever reason are seldom heard of these days or at least here. One massive favorite of mine was Rena and she was also extremely popular with the readers as not many women's posts had more views than her from 2017-21. Plus not many others had as many posts and though I only do one or two a year these days Rena is now up to 81 posts.
EDIT: Had to come back to add this in for it's so important and as the title says her final post ever? For I just read that on September 3rd Rena got married to a non-celebrity(sigh, not me so does that mean this blog has made me a celeb?!) and she is 29 in age so sooner or later her getting hitched was bound to happen. No clue if it's a shotgun marriage and really hope it isn't but even if that's not the case this still may be Rena's final post here, these days they come so infrequently.
Besides being such a busy actress Rena also was close to being a FT gravure model from 2017-20 but her final photo shoot in that genre took place near the end of 2019. But there were enough pictures that carried over to 2020 where we did see a regular photobook, two digital ones and a few final magazine spreads. So when Rena retired from gravure modeling almost seven years ago the magazine spreads sadly dried up and by far the most popular ones are gravure magazines. But think Rena was tired of that kind of modeling and she was only 22 1/2 when she retired from gravure work. Which made it close to impossible to do posts for her after 2021 but I would have kept doing them if Rena had kept doing regular modeling or had non-gravure mag spreads, I really liked everything about her.
If Rena hadn't quit gravure modeling she'd easily be well over a hundred posts and may have been in the top ten on the second 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list that was done four years ago. But she's not the only one who it became so difficult to do posts for and on the bright side her acting career is still doing well. I've seen Rena in three movies and seven dramas but none that she's appeared in the last three years. But was just checking out her bio and there are a few series I'd like to check out such as her current one "Stay a Great Detective" though for some reasons subbed dramas of Rena's aren't so easily found. This will be a mini post which I do say often but there will be a hundred photos for today with over seventy brand new for here. Rena is one of the thinner gravure models that you'll ever see and still is thin to this day but to me still looks so seductive. So if she is someone you don't know well highly recommend checking out her older posts and especially the ones from 2020 and before, you'll notice how much smaller posts were back in those days.
Now on to things for what could be Rena's final post here. When a woman gets married I sometimes continue to do posts for them until they start a family and if there's anything in the near future that I can post about Rena will do so. First off are these photos from her IG page with the first five being from around July 27th and that's when Rena hit the age of 29, the fifth picture is with one her closest friends who is also very popular with you readers.
My all time #1 woman also shares a July 27th birthday with Rena and sadly she's someone who may never have another post with new photos or news....
Will go back in time with another batch of Rena IG photos which are from 2021 and these had never been posted before as 2021 is when it became so hard to do posts for her. The bottom three are from August 2019 and from Rena's final gravure photo shoot.
From that 2019 photo shoot came this spread for the October 21st issue of WPB and it was also promoting Rena's final photobook that came out three months later.
Will end off with a Friday digital book that came out seven months ago but there was no magazine spread to promote it. So will go back in time and have a set from their April 19, 2024 issue, it featured Rena as their cover girl and that was promoting another book which has been posted.
For the finale have what could be Rena's last ever digital book that the Friday magazine released on February 6th and was titled "Shiny Flower". Of course there's no gravure pictures but that's okay as the then single Rena looked mighty oki-doki to me, this is too small of a book with 43 photos. There was no video for this book so after the pictures have a real oldie but goldie mini video from 2016 and for WPB, think it was for Rena's first ever gravure magazine spread. While on YT look for Rena's new Vlog that she just started earlier this year.