Akari Suda: Is hopefully remembered by a few out there....

 

 .... I'm sure a few do recall who she is and hope that's in a good way!!!! After seventeen consecutive months with a post skipped doing any for Akari in April and could have done one easily. But every now and again need to take a break from someone and it just felt as though it was the right time for that with Akari. The record is 22 months in a row with a post and there's no doubt she would have eclipsed that number but there are a few records I want to see not broken for a while. It did feel good in a way not doing a post last month for Akari and this is her first in over five weeks but won't be her last one for May. That close to perfect photo that leads off the post is from a new version of her 2026 calendar that was released four days ago and the pic below is one of two covers.

 That second pic above is from last year's calendar. Things have been running very smoothly so far this year(knock on wood) but I still like to make changes as not to fall into a rut and to keep me inspired. This August is when the countdown for the third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list will commence and have thought about a few changes. For the first two lists done in 2018 and 2022 had a age requirement of 23 to be eligible and as it turns out it wasn't needed. Was thinking of raising it to 25 or 26 for this upcoming list and what do you viewers think, it would mean two of our favorites wouldn't qualify. The other potential change would be to include South Korean women on the list and two actresses, perhaps even three, would make the top eight! I'll discuss this more in that 'My Current Watches' series and if I do include those from Korea it may mean Akari would only be third on the list!!!!

 For the longest time I didn't think anyone would be giving Akari a battle on being my #1 of all time but over the last six months quietly creeping up has been Yui K, there's no way I would ever have a tie for first but those two are just so close. For now I will admit that Yui has crept past Akari and it's really not of one doing more or less than the other over these last six months. I can't go wrong with whoever I choose to be number one and least the spot for #1 won't be coming up until late September so there is time for something to happen where one may pull away from the other.... what's a shame is that there's never been any photos for the two together so hope they're both reading this....

 Akari has been busy this year but not at the level she's been at before. For example last year she released her second photobook in February so until the end of March there were three events for it and a few magazine spreads to promote it, sadly there hasn't been anything like that this year. But do have close to a hundred photos(!) that had never been posted here before, there's no such thing as a small Akari post. Many of those pics are older ones and I'm constantly surprised at how many things from over a decade ago I can find that I've never seen before. Still keep hoping that some of these photos will reel in a few new fans for Akari but that never seems to happen but that has never stopped me from doing these posts for her which could be classified as a Labor of Love 😍....

 As usual have a lot of many things, over the last four years Akari's posts have had more variety than any other woman here.... she's also had the most posts in the last four years! Will begin off with some ancient SKE cards, seeing as how there wasn't a post for April have some 2011 group cards for the month and following them are some for May. In Akari's next post will have some sort of different cards such as for SKE singles, concerts and whatever else I may not have posted before.

 Keep thinking I've caught up with all of Akari's older magazine spreads but every now and again I do find one that hadn't been posted so glad I've been mistaken. This mini set is from the June 2016 issue of Girls! and that magazine is no longer active. This is also a semi-historical spread for after having long hair for so long, such as the in the above cards, Akari had chopped off her tresses and had kept it shot for the Summer of 2016.

 While I was a big SKE fan a decade ago Akari wasn't at the level she is now with me and possibly being my number one woman of all time! So back in 2016 when Akari began to sport much shorter hair I hadn't paid much attention but had wished she had left it the way it was. But as the years went on did admit to myself and viewers here that Akari did look so terrific with shorter hair, I prefer it longer but if she decided to cut it short again this Summer it wouldn't bother me and perhaps she'd even look better! So here's a batch of photos from about a decade ago that had never been posted and feature Akari with those shorter locks with my favorite being the third pic. The second photo features her with an ex-HKT gal and had never seen them together before, that first pic does raise some questions and was she truly only helping with that tie????

 Plus during that period in 2016 Akari had one of her best magazine spreads ever which is from the August issue of UTB. At the time this was her top spread to date and that bottom pic has remained one of my favorites of her.... whewwww....

 Akari's second photobook "Pluie" was released about fifteen months ago, the photo shoot took place when she was 33 in age and she truly looks better than ever. There was a nineteen minute DVD that came with the book, have already posted about a hundred screenshots but have a few more, all are new except for one and will be able to have even more in the future. Akari's had at least fifty mag spreads and two photobooks yet never had any gravure videos for her first book or the spreads until 2024. That's always been baffling to me why Akari didn't have any videos, she's now had two which are close to being my all time favorites but what took so long?

 We've hit the end, it was a huge post as far as pictures went but not too many sections as Akari hasn't done as much the last few months and hopefully will once Summer arrives. Seeing as how Akari had no posts in April that means I have a massive backlog of her IG photos for the month, have plenty of magnificent ones for today and there will be more in future posts, perhaps she'll have three in May? The bottom ones are of her attending an Aichi traffic commission function and she's been an ambassador for their safety programs for a few years. All of the photos are fabulous but especially the first seven, Akari loves going to saunas and hot baths, doesn't she realize how they broiling she makes me when I gape at those pics?!!!! After the photos is a video from December which I'm fairly positive hadn't been posted and it was from an event for Akari's 2026 calendar, as mentioned above a second edition was just released.