Yui Kobayashi: The Galaxy has now proclaimed October 23rd as a Universal holiday though.....

 

 .... that's been a holiday here for many years, what other day of the year matters?! Well, the answer to that is the easiest one you'll ever answer and October 23rd means Yui 😍 is once again turning a year older(now 27!), haven't they slowly been piling up for her? Yes they have and think Yui was eighteen in age when I first mentioned her name in a Keya group post. That would have been in late 2017 and she never had a solo post until mid-2019, even then the solo posts really didn't begin for her until January 2020. Yui is now up to 118 posts and at least a dozen other (ex)Idols have broken the one hundred post milestone, most were members of Nogi. But what makes Yui's total so impressive is that over 80% of them, about 95, have been these kinds of solo posts and no other '46' member can top that % or at least ones with so many posts. PS: That above photo is my number one of all time, bet I've led off a post twenty times with it and it's impossible to gape at it too long or too often!!!!

 In the past have often gone overboard with these kinds of posts for Yui but will try to keep my eagerness in check for today! Which is never easy for when I'm writing a Yui 😍 post up wish they would never end, if I had started this blog in 2020 instead of 2011 would I have named it AiYui???? That does have a nice ring to it though it is hard to top AiToda and when I began this blog it's hard to remember what made me to so and that seems like a lifetime ago! After such a slow stretch from March 2024 until the beginning of 2025 Yui has been consistently busy and she's now had a post for twenty consecutive months. She holds the record with 22 so if this pace continues on January will be the month Yui sets a new record though wish there was more than just one post a month. In 2025 there were three months with two posts, so far for 2026 there's been zero of those though I'm not complaining as for a while in 2024 thought Yui may have done the unthinkable and retired!

 On the second 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list done in the Summer of 2022 Yui 😍 finished in the sixth position. That seemed to be the correct spot for her as I had only been doing solo posts for her since January 2020, that year of 2022 is when she was my #1 Queen on the yearly faves list. A little over a year ago Yui did move into the top spot as far as being my all time number one woman goes, here we are over a year later and she's still my all time woman! The third All Time Faves list will be done next Spring so it'll be almost five years since that second one was done. This has not been an overly strong year for Yui as far as activities go but none of her rivals who could have given her a run for the money have had solid years either so unless Yui does something drastic happens such as her running off in the middle of the night to elope(and break my heart!) Yui 😍 will be number one on that next list. Which I hope doesn't change, even when she finished in the sixth position on the previous list even back then was saying there's no woman I enjoy doing posts for over Yui!!!!

 Was just thinking perhaps if I didn't make her posts so large Yui would have about 130 of them instead of 118 but as mentioned hard to stop these posts once I get started, sigh..... All in all 2026 has been a mixed bag for Yui, she did release a single back in March and has appeared at seven fashion shows this year plus has been doing a bit of off and on modeling for the andGirl site and was in a movie that came out in May but that was filmed last year. Those have been enough activities to keep these posts coming and have been adding in some older things that had never been posted before. But I would love to see Yui 😍 take the next step to being busier, perhaps by resuming her acting career by being in a drama or another stage play. Modeling is another thing I wish she did more of, doubt if she would do gravure modeling though one can fantasize about that and even regular modeling would please me.

 There haven't been too many things going on for Yui since her last post four weeks ago but have 35 new photos from the past ten days. Plus have some oldies but goldies that have been forgotten about as they were posted so long ago or perhaps many of you readers have never seen those pictures before as Yui's posts haven't been popular for a while. As a matter of fact of her previous nine for the year only one has had more than 550 views and once again she may end up being the second most unpopular woman I post about! Which doesn't bother me as how popular a woman is never influences who I do posts for and guess it's time to move on to the meat of the post, wanted to have a smallish intro section which didn't work out. Gulp, now you know why I'm forced to have long intros.... is that thing loaded?!!!!

 At the end of August 2025 Yui 😍 opened up her fan club, so many others have done so and it seems she may have the most popular of them all!!!! On October 18th Yui held a bash for her 27th birthday five days early and as you can see in the second to last photo she had quite a large crowd helping her celebrate! At the get together Yui sang, talked with her fans and there were also a couple of sections that had special photos, contests and other things for members so she did things superbly and I'm always glad when things work out well for her. The first four photos and bottom one is from a streaming event held yesterday for the members, the others are from that birthday bash and I would have given anything to be there. Well, the cost from NE America to Tokyo would have set me back many Yen but one of these days I need to spoil myself and go on a trip such as that.

 Here's a new activity and one we haven't seen in a while which is an interview with Yui. It took place on October 10th and was after a TGC fashion show, pics from that are up next. This interview was done with the Livetimes site, in in Yui talked about her fashion likes and routines, her solo career and as we saw above how much she cherishes her fans and that a goal she has for the Autumn is to read a book as that's an activity she hasn't done in eons! Below are some photos from the site and here's the link to it: Livetimes interview

 On October 10th Yui was at the 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show held in Kitakyushu, it's not one of their major shows and could be their last one until January. Even if Yui 😍 never does anymore gravure photo shoots that's okay as when she looks as perfect as she does in the above and below pictures I'm in Seventh Heaven! Yui appeared at seven of these shows this year and hope that continues on into next year, she took her stroll on the Ann Couture stage.

 Here's an ancient set of cards that I posted back in 2022 and haven't had them since so sure these are brand new to almost everyone reading this. The cards came out in 2019 and were for a web game called "Otome Kagura" which featured the voices of the three '46' groups..... Keya, Hina and Nogi. As you can see the top cards are for Halloween and the year before Yui had been in the "Zambi" stage play with other members of Nogi, that became a TV series and may have been my favorite of the three groups..... hmmmm, "Re:Mind" that starred the Hina(Hiragana46) members was also darn good.

 Yui is still a model with the andGirl site and began with them in March 2023. Over the last two months she's only had a handful of new photos at their site so let me save those for her November post, here's some oldies from their site and how I would love to see Yui do more modeling as aren't photos such as these tough to top?!

 October 4, 2022 was the date Yui released her second photobook and that may end up being the last time we ever see her do any gravure modeling.... who wouldn't love to see her have a digital book or two? Know I would and even if it was a non-gravure book that'd be okay with me. It's been a while since Yui has appeared in a magazine so let's go back four years to October 21, 2022 and this smallish spread for Friday was promoting that second photobook.

 Will end off here and did say Yui hasn't been all that popular here which is true. However the posts for her two photobooks have over 15,200 views so if Yui did more gravure modeling she just may garner a huge amount of fans though I think even her regular posts are all so terrific. Below is the link for Yui's second book and the photos are from it with a few outtake pics from the photo shoots mixed in. Yui does have a YT channel for her musical career and she goes by the name of Yousti when releasing music. There hasn't been a new video added for two months but the ones there are so fabulous and after the pics is a behind the scenes video for her "Day Dreamer" song, do recommend checking out her other videos while there.

"Igaisei" photobook scans