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Monday, April 6, 2026

Usa Hiiragi: Another in the.... 𝑷𝒂𝒊𝒓 𝒐𝒇 𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒓𝒂 𝒔𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒄𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒅𝒊𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔 .... series....

 


 Two weeks ago was saying how up until this year had only done one post that featured a pair of digital books but this has been the sixth already for 2026! Regular photobooks are usually larger than digital books and often have over a hundred pages, for '46' groups the total the last two years has often been 140+ pages. Digital books were often half that size and seventy photos is actually a lot, if I had a few other things then a post would have over a hundred pictures. I don't care either way as far as these books go but they have become much smaller as the pair for today have 94 photos which means there's not going to be much else in a post. On the positive side having two means I don't have to hold on to a smaller pictorial for a while and think these will be continuing on for a while as there should be two more of these posts for April.



 As their fans know two weeks ago BababaBambi held their final concert and I'm not too bummed out but I really did like the group and the members had the best mag spreads of any J-Pop Idols the last few years. It's hard for a group that's only so-so popular to remain active but they did for six years and their concerts were always so enjoyable. The songs were solid too but they never did have any hit singles nor any signature tunes that stood out so in a way the songs blended in with each other at shows which was a bit of a negative. Will do a final group post soon, was thinking May and that's to see what the future will hold for some members. They did leave us with a new magazine spread and smallish book which will be in that post. Later on this week will have another of these two digital book posts for Miyu, she and Usa should have decent solo careers but unsure about the other three.

 Usa has been the most popular member of BababaBambi who I thought peaked two years ago. By popular mean here at this blog and also among the group's fans, as long as Usa keeps doing gravure modeling on at least a PT basis she'll have no problem finding work. Posts for digital books are much easier to write up and that's a good thing for I don't have much time for today. Am going into work an hour late so am rushing through this in order to keep that streak of having at least one post a day. In three weeks she'll be celebrating her 23rd birthday so will have a regular post with her recent happenings and also have another book which is on the largish size.



 Today's two books came out in the second half of 2025, another came out in March and that will be in  her next post. First up for Usa is this boom containing 44 pages and was released by the BLT magazine last September 29th. There was no spread to promote it in a BLT issue and that's become common these days but before the second book there is a spread to promote that one.













































 Usa is certainly a fine looking young woman but she is a bit thin so wish now and again she would visit her local 'All you can eat' restaurant. The WPB magazine released today's second book and before that have this spread from their October 27th issue that had outtake pics from the book.









 We've hit the end and have Usa's WPB book that was released on October 6th, it had the title of "Blooming in the Wilderness" and has fifty photos. After the pics is a short video for the book which deserved to be longer, Usa looks so tempting in it but what a horrible song and that is way too common in gravure videos.