I often moan(too often?) about not having enough posts for women such as Miku but this makes it 42 solo posts to date and her first one was done about five years ago. So that means she's had an average of 8.4 posts a year since late 2021 and that's a decent pace but one that has slowed down drastically as Miku's only had three posts for 2026. For most years that first photo above would be my top one for the year and doesn't it leave you speechless..... and breathless?! But for now there is a photo which tops that one and the second picture above is pretty darn terrific too! Both are from Miku's upcoming photobook and will end off the post with so many more from it.... that should give you time to get your cold shower warmed up.... gulp, that is if I haven't used up all the world's cold water.... whewwww!!!!
Here's a thought that just popped into my head, maybe Miku will be around for one more single which would come out next Spring. A neat idea would be to have Miku and her best Hina friend Nao be the co-center of single #19 and the last two remaining second generation members would graduate together? The pair are quite close and their birthdays are only three days apart, both hit the age of 24 earlier this month. At this point I don't care if Miku leaves or stays as the newer generations/members get too much of the exposure and don't think that bothers Miku. She could have one very successful career but I also wonder if she wants to continue on in show biz but whatever Miku decides to do she'll be a master at it as she seems to excel at anything she does.... except to send me birthday and Christmas cards....
This is just Miku's third post for 2026 but think there's a chance to have three more before the 'Nao Year' concludes on November 30th. While this is a largish post could have made it bigger but thought it'd be wise to hold back some things for future posts, I'd like to see Miku make a return to the yearly fave's list. Which she's made three times, in 2024 she was in the fourth position and in 2023 second! So Miku does make a strong case for having a spot on my third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list when it's done next Spring, if she can average a post a month until then she'd have an excellent chance of making the top ten! For a while I did say Miku had a chance on becoming my all time #1 J-Pop Idol but when Hina expanded so rapidly it came at the expense of so many members of the first two generations being pushed aside to give the new gals most of the exposure. Which did hurt Hina's popularity at first though they have made a recovery but Miku's activities really saw such a decrease which ended her chances of being my number one Idol and that decrease in things also was a factor in so many members leaving. Oh well, have moaned about that before too but I'm used to that by now as the same thing has happened with every other group I've followed.
There were no new birthday photos this year from Miku and she seems like such a low key person, birthday #24 took place on September 10th. Let's get to things and as I said earlier hope this is the first of four posts over the next ten weeks and hope the Gods above are Miku fans to allow that to happen! First off are these recent photos from her IG page which also get posted at Hina's 'Diary' group page. There aren't as many as usual and that could be because of the photobook, the top two are for an upcoming magazine spread.
That new magazine spread will be for EX-Taishu and Miku will be the cover girl for their next issue. Don't have any new spreads for today so will go back in time as once before she graced one of their issues which took place in April 2023. Miku's mag spreads don't feature gravure photos but that's fine by me as her spreads are truly the best of any Idol I post about or at least their non-gravure spreads.
The reason I didn't do a post for her September 10th birthday is because I wanted to wait until the 19th which is today. It's also the date of two huge Autumn 'Tokyo Girls Collection' shows and Miku has appeared at all of them in the last six years, of course she was at today's show. The event took place at the Yokohama Arena and Miku took her stroll on the Zippers Fruit stage, she was dressed conservatively but I think she looked better than oki-doki! She's become good friends with Hono from Keya(Sakura), both are models for the Viz site. I like Hono so much and so don't you viewers as she's so popular here but it's become almost impossible to do posts for her but now that she's on my mind let me try working on one but can't promise I'll be successful.
Miku will also be in another upcoming spread though she won't be the cover girl for that magazine, I expect a few other spreads to promote her second photobook. Of the three '46' groups Hina has always had the fewest cards and that's a shame as theirs look the best. There's been very few this year so won't have any for today and am hoping there will be some cards coming out soon for the group's new single. As most Hina fans know until February 2019 they were an undergroup to Keya46 called Hiragana46 but had their own variety show and even released an album which I think is so superb. While being under Keya they also had cards for the 'Keya Kise' app game which was in operation from 2017-20. I've posted very few of those cards for any Hina member and these are the first time you're seeing any of Miku's that are from late 2018 and the first batch reminds me it's almost Halloween. Will have more in the future and how I miss her mate in the bottom three cards....
Will end off here and I know of two photobooks that have bene set in Germany. For Miku's second book she went over the border into Austria and that could be a the first time an Idol has had a book set there. October 20th is the date the photobook will be released, sales for books have dropped drastically and very few hit 100,000+ in sales. Miku's first book sold close to 120,000 and I really hope she can come somewhat close to that sales figure with this book as Miku is such a likable young woman plus this book looks to be the steamiest one of the year! The first four pics below are the covers and then there's many promo ones for the book, doesn't Miku bring the word Alluring to a new level.... WOWOWWOWOW!!!! On her 24th birthday Miku hosted "Showroom" on September 10th where she also talked quite a bit about her upcoming book, the video to that is after these dazzling photos....
