Welcome to this Baka's blog on his fave Japanese Pop Culture interests.
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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....Ruka Kitano.... 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!
Named this blog after a different Nao and that was Kanzaki from the "Liar Game" dramas and movies. So while it wasn't named after today's Nao she carries on the name terrifically and she is my #1 woman with that name! I'll never do a list but have often talked about who my hottest J-Pop Idols are, a list like that may be kind of cheesy and I think the women I post about are more than just a pretty face. One other thing I've mentioned are the groups and how I've thought SKE has the most attractive and hottest members, bet not many agree with me. Pardon the pun but NMB is kind of Top Heavy, they'd have three gals in my top ten but no others in the top thirty. Nogi may not have any in the top ten but would have many from fifteen to thirty. SKE is a balanced group, they'd have at least two in my top ten and at least four more in the next twenty. Nao could be one of my top five as far as hottest Idols or she would be if she had more posts in this vein, not many can top those above photos!!!!
I've really liked Nao quite a bit for close to a decade and not just because of her alluring looks. She is very talented at many things such as playing the Saxophone and had a column for a Sax magazine while with SKE. Nao's also an actress and appears in so many stage plays plus is a rarity among Idols as she still has an active musical career though of course isn't topping the charts. Nao didn't have many solo posts while with SKE but always had a good amount of magazine spreads and photos in group posts. When she graduated in September 2022 didn't think we would hear much about Nao and that there would never be any posts. But that hasn't happened, this is her fourth in less than two years and perhaps a fifth will be coming up soon as there is a digital book I still need to obtain. Like a pair of ex-Nogi members Nao has tried her hand at gravure modeling after graduating to boost her career, like those other two it has worked and just wish we saw more of these books. But seeing as how I didn't expect Nao to be heard of again after she graduated 2-3 posts a year is oki-doki with me and the book today is the best one I've seen in a while.
But have much more than the new digital book and there should be well over a hundred photos for today. Of course Nao looks older than she did a decade ago but not overly so, she still looks a bit young but on September 15th will be celebrating her 30th birthday and think another big favorite of mine also has a birthday on that date. First off are these recent photos from Nao's IG page but she doesn't post many of them there. Instead she has more at her Fan Club site and as you can see near the end of the pics she has an event coming up for the members. The bottom photos are for Nao's 2026-27 calendar and she'll be having an event for it in three weeks, if there's a mag spread to promote it perhaps there can be an April post. Which would make it three consecutive months with a post as Nao had one in February and that'll never happen again! The sizzling fourth pic down is from the calendar's photo shoot.
How about some older SKE cards and have never posted many for her. The top ten are for Nao's second solo concert which took place on December 21, 2021 and was called "Colour Days", the others are for this current month and if you had forgotten it's March.... just remembered it's the first day of Spring and Nao certainly has made my day much brighter!
Did blabber on in the intro that to me SKE had or continues to have the most attractive and hottest members. Joining Nao as far as having a second career as a gravure model is Ruka who has made modeling her actual career while Nao just does it part time. A few days ago posted Ruka's second photobook and very few women have had as many mag spreads and books as she's had the past fourteen months. This is one true oldie but goldie, unsure if it's been posted but if it was had to have been over seven years ago as the pair shared this dazzling spread in the February 2018 edition of Bomb.
Have another forgotten Nao spread but this one is newer plus I think is a bit better than the above one! This set is from the December 24, 2024 issue of Flash and was promoting a digital book that had been released around that time, she's has appeared in the Flash magazine more than any other one and by a wide margin.
We've hit the end and this seventy photo book is the best I've seen so far this year and all of Nao's books are truly fabulous. Wanibooks isn't a magazine but a site which used to release so many web books but they've decreased over the years though the books are still terrific and this one came out on February 25th. Nao is like so many others I post about these days where they rarely have a video for a book or mag spread. There is none for this book so have one from two years ago for the WPB magazine and while short is a must watch!!!!