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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...Risa Watanabe... Miku Tanaka... Yui Kobayashi....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!
... not too much else. Eight posts already for Nashiko this year but that pace won't keep up and since late 2018 she's averaged about 12-13 posts a year. Think it was in her last post where I mused about how many women who had a lot of posts back then are still getting a decent amount of posts these days and the answer may just be two though if I only went back six years to 2020 the total could be close to ten. The posts for some women here have consistently been large, say 80 or even over a hundred photos in them. On the other hand Nashiko's posts are smaller than most other women as she may just have sixty pics in a post though that shouldn't be considered to be small. Nashiko had 95 posts coming into today, even at only sixty photos a post that still means she's had at least 5,700 to date(!), she's also going to be the next woman to hit that rare milestone of a hundred posts.
The odds are very high there won't be a post tomorrow but will still try to make it happen. The next post to be published will be for that 'My Current Watches' series and I've been so pleased to see that it's become a semi-popular set of posts. For this upcoming one am trying something different, the first post in this experiment will be large but the ones after that should be much smaller. Explaining everything is the big reason for the post being so large but I'm looking forward to reading it on the main blog page as I think it'll be an impressive post. There will be two mini recaps for a currently airing Korean drama and also a feature of the star of the show who could be in my top five for All Time Women. Still have a way to go with the post and am going to put everything aside until it's complete, there is a chance it'll be ready to go tomorrow which is Friday.
Yesterday Nashiko released her second regular photobook and that's the main reason she's been so busy this year. In a few days she'll be having an event for the book plus there should be at least one more magazine spread coming out to promote it along with some web interviews. So her ninth post of the year may take place in about ten days and that'll be Nashiko's 97th post, sure things will be dying down soon but she should hit that magical Hundred sometime in the Summer. Plus she will have another high position on the yearly faves list, in 2025 she was in the fourth spot and in 2021 was ranked third!
No birthday celebration for today but at the beginning of November Nashiko will be hitting the age of 31 and is showing no signs of slowing down. Her acting roles have become steadier plus meatier and there's been as many gravure photos as there's always been, I see no difference in Nashiko versus five years ago. First up are these new pics from her IG page but not nearly as many as usual though her last post wasn't too long ago.
On to the magazine spreads and over the last seven years no gravure model as appeared in more covers than Nashiko. But in such a shock these first two spreads that have some outtake pics from her photobook didn't feature her as the cover girl and perhaps because the spreads weren't large? This first set is from the March 27th issue of Friday.
The last spread for today will also feature pics for the new photobook but surprised there hasn't been more magazine appearances. That's because no other woman has had as many gravure spreads as Nashiko since 2018 and the other mini spread is from the April 21st edition of Flash.
This third spread I think was in her last post but not positive about that, even if it was who can ever get tired of looking at steamy Nashiko photos? We're back to normal as she graces the cover for the May issue of Young King Bull, she was also the cover girl for their first issue and at least four others.
About four months ago Nashiko changed her hair color for a pair of photo shoots to a light reddish tint and recently had wondered at her site should she keep the color or not? I would say yes and she's also looked so super duper as a blonde! Final spread is this new set from the May 4th issue of Young Magazine that has some outtake pics from the new photobook. After this semi-smallish spread is one other thing and they could be the best pics of the post!
After this final batch have a short video from the photo shoot for the above spread. "Musubi" is the title of Nashiko's second regular photobook and she's had at least forty digital ones. For the book she traveled to Spain and these days very few books are set in Japan. Yesterday is when the book was released and below are some promo photos for it, some were in Nashiko's previous post but at least five are brand new for here.
