Akari Suda: Has once again saved the day!!!!

 

 That slowish period has stretched on for close to a month so hopefully when the calendar page turns to June things will be much better. That month will begin off strongly with a Nogi photobook and about a week or so later will be having another book for an ex-HKT member who has been eerily silent for the past few months. Posts for books tend to be streaky here, had quite a few for April but hardly any for May so that's another reason for the decrease in posts and wish things like that didn't happen or that I need to make explanations for things.

The posts have even slowed down a bit for Akari and that hadn't been the case for over three years but in a way glad they did. Am just about caught up with her older things that had never been posted plus she's been a bit quiet lately though that should be changing in three weeks. One big positive this year for Akari is that she appears to have gained many new fans, she'll never be a star here but the last three years her posts drew fewer views than any other woman! But the average has steadily been rising from 325 views a post in 2023 to 400 in 2024 and then that average jumped all the way to 481 in 2025, posts keep getting views so those averages have increased. The 'Nao Year' began on December 1st, Akari's nine posts before this one have an average of 484 views to date and that's kind of a shocker but a pleasant one. To me Akari's posts haven't been better as they've all been so super duper over the last few years so not sure why there's been an increase in popularity and that current average could increase to 550 views a post by the end of the year. Guess my perseverance has paid off and how (un)popular posts are has never had any impact on who I do posts for her, in the case of Akari 😍 it's made me work even harder on her posts to make them so oki-doki....

 Akari's posts tend to be larger than just about anyone else here, this is a good sized post but perhaps not as huge as most others. Did say I am running very low on older things that had never been posted before which isn't a negative as it makes me work even harder for these posts! As I've discussed numerous times over the last few months there are a pair of fave's lists coming up with the first countdown of one beginning in nine weeks. That'll be for the third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list, Akari was in the seventh position on the second list done in 2022. But since then on the yearly list she's been in the sixth, first, second and first spots so for a while it appeared she would be a shoo-in to be my all time #1 woman but it may not happen. For now I would place Akari in the second position but that doesn't mean she won't leapfrog her rival and be number one as the two are so close.

 The countdown will begin about a week into August and I need to start thinking of who the twenty women will be along with their positions. The top two spots wouldn't be revealed until the end of September so that's almost four months away and a lot can happen in that time. For the yearly list did say that in the years from 2022-25 Akari finished in the sixth, first, second and first spots, way back in 2018 she also was in the second position. For now no woman has broken away to be my number one to date for 2026 and for the third time in four years it easily could be Akari 😍 again as #1, that would be so odd if she did finish first again yet second on the All Time list!

 Let's get to the meat of the post and the older things I'm running extremely low on are SKE cards, most have been posted but not all. One helpful thing is that Akari's posts were so unpopular for such a long time(years) so even if some cards or magazine spreads had been posted sure many of you reading this had never seen them until now. Such as this batch of older cards for May which is a mix of new cards for here and ones that have been posted before.

 In some terrific news Akari will be releasing a photobook on June 25th but it's not a regular book. It's a travel/style photobook as somehow Akari sneaked off to New Zealand without any of us noticing. Below are four promo pictures that have been released for the book and I don't know if there will be any gravure pics but it doesn't matter as photos like the below ones are so fabulous to me. Did read that the book will contain some pics of Akari visiting a winery and she loves her spirits!!!! The bottom photo is the cover and the book's title is "Akari no Aruhi".

 I've always been curious about the sales of calendars, so many ex-Idols release them so they have to be somewhat popular. Know that Akari's 2026 calendar has been her best seller to date as two new versions have been released, the five pics below are for the newest version and aren't those photos so spectacular?!

 Exactly two years ago Akari appeared in her best gravure magazine spread to date, she's had about fifty so saying it's her best does mean a lot! The set was for the May 2024 issue of Bomb and it's close to being my all time mag spread, the sizzling set is below. Akari did have a lot of mini magazine appearances in the Spring of 2025 for her second photobook but so few since then.

 Also have a few screenshots from the photo shoot, even though Akari had about fifty gravure mag spreads before this set the video was her first ever from a photo shoot.

 

 Will end off with plenty of fabulous new photos from Akari's IG page, usually do have these as the finale but hadn't done so for her last two posts. Akari loves going to saunas and hot baths, she also must know I love those pictures and we lead off with a few of them.... whewwww!!!! After the pics is a very short promo video for that upcoming travel book, there will be three events for it at the end of June.