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Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Miku Tanaka: Her truly searing.... WPB-Net volume 358 digital book part one.... with a twist....

 


 Will explain what that minor twist is a bit later on in the post. The title also says part one and have gotten into a nice habit of squeezing photobooks into one post, a decade a book such as this may have had three posts(!) but have been fixing those older ones up and reposting the book with just one post. It's been a slightly slower period again but have been able to do a post every day this month and they really have been so terrific! If I can't find anything to do for tomorrow may have part two of this digital book, this first set has a hundred photos. May take one of the next three days off as I'm about to start writing up the third 'My Current Watches' post of the month, they take a while to do as I try to make them so interesting with quite a bit of variety. But I do enjoy writing those up and what I need to do is take a lot of screenshots for a movie and drama I've watched, would like to get that post done by this weekend.



 This makes four posts for Miku since June 1st and it's also her second in nine days. Because of that pace you wouldn't realize how quiet she's been this year, she's done virtually nothing in almost five months and to date this has been Miku's quietest year ever since joining HKT in 2014, where has the time gone?! Miku was overdue for a long break and in a rarity she had released was too many gravure books and magazine spreads last year so there was a bit of an overexposure with Miku and who ever thought that would happen? I'm expecting to see her return soon and sure by September 12th as that's when Miku will be celebrating her 25th birthday and doesn't it seem she should be so much older?



 The With a twist mentioned in the title is that this huge digital book is actually version three of Miku's third photobook "Zenbu, Honto" that was released on March 9th. The original version of the book had 104 pictures, then there was a web version that came out on April 27th with 110 photos. This book was released six days after the hard copy came out on March 9th and is the largest of the versions by far as it contains over 160 pictures! The book was split into four weeks and will have the first two for today, this first section has forty photos. Every picture is brand new as none were in either version of the other two books, after the forty will have part two. Miku traveled to Lisbon, Portugal for the photo shoot and the bonus pack I have also had seven mini videos which were a nice bonus. Even though Miku has had more books and mag spreads than most others the last three years there has been a shortage of videos from the photo shoots.









































 The WPB magazine released all three versions of Miku's photobook and she's appeared in their magazine too many times to count. WPB-Net was an extremely popular series during the 2010's and I've posted many of their monthly pictorials but very few the last couple of years as none of my favorites have been appearing in them. A series like this was a forerunner to the huge digital book craze and there had to be about a dozen in this vein which had been referred to as Pictorials. This is part two of the third version of the "Zenbu, Honto" and contains 55 photos so if you include the other 46 pics there were 101 for this post. All three versions have been overly sizzling but this version to me is the best by far! After these pics is a short video of Miku promoting her book and we won't see her fourth one until at least 2027.