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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!
That 'Featured Post of the Day' has proven to be popular and is usually the third or fourth most viewed post of the day and often is number one! At times it's also helped me and an excellent example of that is this post, not sure if there would have been one if not for this. Had an older Hiroe post as yesterday's feature and immediately after started thinking she's had so few posts the past couple years, Hiroe may not do a lot of gravure modeling these days but told myself she still deserves a post, know I can do one more after this one and with any luck perhaps two more! I've liked Hiroe for a while and first discovered her in the 2019 series "Kamen Rider Zero", recapped about a dozen episodes. What's kind of surprising is that Hiroe is extremely popular with you viewers, I tend to like the taller and thin gals who haven't been ultra popular here but there's often an exception to a rule and Hiroe is that with you viewers!
Back in 2019 did a post for Hiroe's "Dramatic" digital book and that post is easily the most shocking one I've ever done! For in close to seven years it's accumulated 41,800 views to make it the fifth most popular post I've done in fifteen years, that amount of views is so mind boggling! But even if that post wasn't counted Hiroe's other eighteen posts have an average of almost 3,500 views per post and that too is so impressive. If you're not too aware of who Hiroe is recommend checking out her previous posts and all have a good variety of many many things but wish there could have been more of them. Hiroe has done a good amount of gravure modeling though not so much the last four years but did have a sizzling photobook last year and will end off this post with her last digital book to date.
There's nothing wrong with doing posts for gravure models and J-Pop Idols but do miss having them for actresses, it seems they're the ones who have disappeared more than any other group of women I post about. Hiroe is mainly an actress but also does quite a bit of regular modeling so I probably could have done this and a few other posts for her the last few years. Of course that didn't happen and it was a case of out of sight, out of mind but will try to have these posts on a more consistent basis. There will be another by the end of the month and hoping can do one for June, won't be easy but will try to have one every 2-3 months after that and as long as I don't make these posts too large it should be doable. Hiroe is now 29 in age and celebrated that birthday on February 3rd, lot of my favorites were born in the shortest month of the year. At 170 cm Hiroe is one of the taller women I post about, she may not be nearly as bodacious as most gravure models but doesn't she look so fabulous in these photos?!!!!
To keep these posts smaller in order to have more will just have five sections to them but there will still be plenty of photos that had never been posted before and for today there's over sixty of them. However this first batch has been seen before and are from Hiroe's second regular photobook "Tsukanoma" which was released last year on her 28th birthday. Did a post for the book last July and that had been her last post until now so do recommend checking out that post. Hiroe's first book came out in December 2020 and was titled "My Girl", that book may have been even better than her dazzling second one!
Here's a magazine spread that hadn't been posted and it was from the March 4, 2025 issue of Flash which featured outtake pics from Hiroe's second book.
Hiroe usually attends those huge fashion shows and will have plenty of photos from her 2024/25 shows in future posts. On April 18th she was at the Spring 'Girls Award' show that was held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo and preferred the way she looked at previous shows.
One thing you will see in all of Hiroe's posts are modeling photos from the Classy site, below are some from December to February. These are the kinds of Hiroe pictures I think are so tough to top, can say the same for an about to graduate Nogi member who also has so many fabulous pics at the site.
Will end off this post with a mini digital book and is Hiroe's last one to date. It was released on March 6, 2023 and has the title of "Up To Date" that sadly has only 32 photos but do have one more mini book from 2022 that hasn't been posted and you'll be seeing that soon. Hiroe must be quite popular in Japan as she has so many commercials on YT and you don't see unpopular gals appearing in them. So many of those videos have over a million views and after the pics is one of her newer ones for UVO.