Miku Kanemura: Another huge favorite who we've all sorely missed....

 

 I've led off many Miku posts with that first photo and it's hard to explain why that is such a favorite of mine but I'll never get tired of it nor of her many other stupendous photos! The Missed in the title is because this is just Miku's second post for 2026 and only her third since last September. To say I adore Miku 😍 to no end would be the understatement of the century and if she could have continued on with the pace of posts and activities she had from 2021-24 I really thought she'd have an excellent chance of being my #1 J-Pop Idol of all time! Which will never officially happen as the first two generations of Hina were kind of pushed aside to give so many new members a turn in the spotlight, that's probably the biggest reason only two of those original twenty members are still with the group. One is Miku and did a post on May 6th for her where I predicted her departure date would be this Autumn or when the group released their next single. Haven't heard one peep about that and I wouldn't mind if she did stay on until next year. My latest prediction is that she'll graduate at the same time as Nao Kosaka and those two are such good friends plus the most popular of the second generation members. I've never done a solo post for Nao and while she does have such an tremendous photobook she was only eighteen at the time it was released so that's the reason you'll never see it here.

 This will be a medium sized post and it is harder these days to have large ones for Miku. On September 10th she'll be celebrating her 24th birthday so will try to have her next post shortly after that. Did mention above how Miku was in line to become my all time favorite Idol and she was certainly determined to achieve that feat! In 2023 she was second on the yearly faves list and the following year fourth but after is when Hina ushered in so many new members and too many of the original gals were forgotten about. To me it appears Miku didn't mind stepping back a bit with her activities as it allowed her time to finish college and in the Spring of 2025 she graduated with a degree in Photography from Nihon University College of Art. Miku isn't perfect but she seems to excel at almost everything she does and I'd think she would make for such a terrific teacher or professor and who knows, maybe that'll be her next career after leaving Hina?!

 Speaking of Hina aren't they the only J-Pop group whose every single has topped the charts? Was just looking at their discography and noticed all seventeen of their singles have reached #1. Keya's and Nogi's first singles only made it to the second spot and know most other popular groups such as AKB, NMB and SKE didn't have number one singles right off the bat so Hina may be setting an unbeatable record. Though I'm not as much of a fan these days because of so many graduations their last few singles have been decent and the songs are more upbeat than they were years ago. Back to Miku and though another with that name has had many more posts than her the last few years I confess to liking this Miku 😍 much more, bet many readers share the view! Have about fifty new photos for today plus some oldies and could have had more but put some things aside for that upcoming birthday post. No new gravure pictures and there never are in her posts but perhaps there will be for when Miku does leave Hina as she may have a graduation photobook and don't think any member has had more than one book.

 From October 2020 to this past January Miku was a model for the Bis magazine but is no longer there but a month after leaving them she became a model for the Voce site. Below are some recent pictures from Miku's IG page and the first six are from a Voce photo shoot, most should recognize her partner. Who is Hono from Keya(Sakura) and she's the most popular member here from that group but it's become so difficult to do posts for her. But now that she's back in my mind let me work on something for her but creating a post or two is easier said than done.

 There were a few photos above of Miku wearing a Yutuka.... Summer Kimono.... and to me she looks so sensational wearing those! So how about a few other photos of Miku clad in a Yukuta and she's one of those women who doesn't have to dress scantly to get my blood boiling.

 From 2021 until January 2025 the 'Uni's on Air' web game used to release four promo pics a month for the members of Hina and Keya. To me that picture/card series were the best of any cards for the '46' groups or really any J-Pop group. But those monthly cards stopped in January 2025 and are now only released sporadically but they still look so tremendous. Such as these 2026 cards of Miku's and the game did just celebrate its '6.5 Birthday'(?)! 

 Don't know what the total is but am sure no Hina member has appeared on more magazine covers than Miku, she had about twenty or more solo covers from 2021-24. But then they began to die out and seems she only appears in a magazine every three months. It's usually for Weekly Shonen and she was the cover girl for their June 10th issue, bet it's Miku 20th time having that honor.

 Will end off here and will feature an oldie yet stupendous goldie magazine spread. It's from exactly three years ago and Miku was the cover girl for the August 2023 edition of Bomb. Miku's posts have only been so-so popular the last few years so many of you may have missed this, wanted to have this again as it's my #1 Miku magazine spread of all time! After this large spread is a video for the Bis magazine that came out in the Summer of 2024 and I'm going to miss Miku's videos which weren't gravure ones yet kind of alluring in their own way....