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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...Yui Kobayashi... Miku Tanaka... Nagi Inoue....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 much else though sixty photos for a post is plenty! If it feels as though I've been posting about the same small group of women over and over for this year it's understandable for I've been thinking that way also. However we've both a bit mistaken as I think when posts come in bunches for someone it seems it's been going on forever which hasn't been the case. For the first time in a while counted up the amount of 2026 posts for most women and the posts have been somewhat distributed evenly up until today. There's two gals who each have fifteen posts to lead the pack, Nashiko and the woman in the next post. Then another has fourteen posts and right behind her is one with thirteen, then a pair each have nine posts. Nine women have between six and eight posts while four others have five so nineteen women have between five and fifteen posts for 2026. So that seems like it's sort of balanced and all have qualified for this year's fave's list plus two others only need one more post to qualify.
Glad I took the time to figure those stats out and more women will be eligible for this year's faves list compared to 2025 even though there have been less posts. Which is mainly due to having that 'My Current Watches' series, instead of having four posts to review dramas and movies have been squeezing those four into one post so I'm thinking there will actually be more photos and reviews this year because of that. Fifteen posts I think is a personal record for Nashiko in a year and she should have at least two more by the time the 'Nao Year' ends on November 30th.
Another personal record that Nashiko should set is how high she'll finish on this year's faves list. Twice she's been in the fourth position and two other times in the top ten, as of now she's in the third spot but don't think she has a chance to be #1 and that woman is in the post below this one. On November 8th Nashiko will be celebrating her 31st birthday and she seems to be busier than ever, if you ask me Nashiko looks better these days compared to when I first began posting about her eight years ago. Eight years is also another record for that's how many consecutive years she's qualified for the fave's list, this year there will be a woman who has reached seven consecutive years so my favorite women haven't changed much over the years.
For years not many who I post about had more IG photos than Nashiko plus hers were always so sweltering! They still are but she's cut down on the amount she posts and like many others these days she seems to post more at her fan club than at her IG page. This batch is it for the past three weeks and all are from photo shoots for Nashiko's Familia agency, at their site you can purchase these outfits though the model isn't included.... grrrrrrr(!)....
Even though she doesn't do a lot of cosplaying these days Nashiko still loves doing that activity so bet she had such a grand time at the above photo shoots. Nashiko did leap to somewhat fame by her cosplaying back in the period of 2017-19 and that's one of the reasons I started doing posts for her as she didn't become a FT gravure model until 2020. Went back in time to 2020/21 for these older cosplaying photos and don't think any had been posted before.
Now on to the trio of new magazine spreads, all have the word Young in the title and I said a few days ago in a post how there has to be at least ten popular Japanese magazines with that word in their title. Will start off with the oldest of the bunch which is from the August 21st issue of Young Gangan and the trio of spreads also have one other thing that connects them besides featuring Nashiko.
The bottom two above are from the photo shoot, the other thing that connected the magazines is that Nashiko was the cover girl for all three and she has to be coming close to having been the cover girl a hundred times in her career!!!! Up second for today's spreads is the newest one which is from the September 18th edition of Young Champion.
For the finale have this terrific set from the September 11th issue of Young Animal, all three spreads were fabulous but this is my favorite one. Two are promoting digital books so expect to see them soon but may wait until next month. Nashiko has the best YT channel of any woman I do posts for, after the pics is a video from the photo shoot and while at the site check out Nashiko's huge amount of other dazzling videos..... they're so steaming you may never leave that site!!!!
