Nao Kanzaki: 'Top Twenty Faves list for 2017' #3....?

 In a way Rika may have been the true #1 for 2017 but the two above her had a bit of an head start on her as they've been faves much longer but also it may be the final time either one will appear on the list. Any of my faves from one through five could have hit the top spot and actually at one time all did hold that position but think the list turned out to be on the money and compared to previous years don't have any regrets on who or who didn't make the list.

 Though I had known about Rika for a while had never done any posts for her until August and after that she really burst onto the scene. She may have been the busiest of all my faves this year but she was a bit silent the past two months, probably needed a break after her hectic pace. Lot of posts did feature many Rika activities from before 2017 which no doubt helped her position but think if she continues being as busy next year she'd be the early favorite to nab next year's #1 spot. Rika will be turning thirty next October and no one that age has ever taken the top spot on my lists.
 A lot of viewers and I mean a real lot have also taken to Rika as her posts were all massive hits here and if you took out the Nogi posts she just may be the popular here. Rika's popularity isn't just here as her fans in Japan also can't get enough of her and have the details on that to end the post off. After this post will have one or two miscellaneous posts for the list, one definite will be for the stats and some oddball musings. After that may have another post to compare it to last year such as who dropped out or had a huge jump/fall in position, then it will be on the top two spots.

 First post since the end of October for Rika, had been accumulating her things for this post as like I said she wasn't as busy these last two months as she was the first ten. But then again Rika has been quite active, just had done many activities we hadn't noticed until recently and bet they all add up to be over seventy new pics. At the very top of the post is a new CM for Indeed which also has a brief behind the scenes segment.
 Odd how Rika does so many CM's for Indeed which is an employment company and not all that many for fashion sites as I would consider her to be much more of a model than an actress. And first off are some new modeling pics of Rika's and they're from Apuweiser, have posted about a hundred of their pics for this year so far as she looks quite elegant and classy for their attire.

 There are more modeling pics than the ones for today, decided not to have every new pic as we need to save some for future Rika posts.. Ones here are from the With Online site.

 One more small set of new clothing pics and these are for Yotuisan. All the pics are new for here with the first five being from the 2017 Autumn collection but the other five are from 2016.

 There's also a few other clothing lines that Rika represents, she truly is involved with more companies than any other model. But not just for clothing sites as she also has some fashion columns for both the Maquia(seven pics) and Voce(five) websites.

 Good thing there were some pics at the Voce site as there were only three pages of Rika in their November edition.

 Rika's popularity really skyrocketed when she started doing some gravure spreads. She didn't start doing them until the past year but the ones she's done, especially the sets for Young Jump, have been second to none. Even the spreads that are much more conservative are just as good to me, Rika is just such a glamorous woman and even modeling parkas she still gets a grade of A+++++ from me. Next up for mag spreads is this small one from the November 28th SPA!, least she had the cover.

 Another too small of a spread to end them off is from a special edition of Flash titled 'Diamond' which came out on October 24th.

 What I've enjoyed more than anything else about Rika this year was the way she looked at events and for a long stretch she seemed to be at one every week. Every one of them also had a video for it and just watching her was quite pleasurable as Rika has such a stage presence about her.
 Mentioned in the beginning how Rika is also extremely popular these days in Japan or should I say even more so and here's some absolute proof of it. Every year Yahoo Japan has an awards ceremony where the most searched people through their search engine are honored, it's called 'Yahoo Search Grand Prize'.
 It honors actors, writers, Idols, etc and there's also an award for models. That's the category Rika won her award in and at the ceremony on December 6th she really shone more than ever. Rika does have such an unbelievable figure but her smile is only second to one, that person is who will be #1 this year. Plenty of splendid pics from the event and the bottom two feature some other winners from the show, no clue who those females dressed in those silly uniforms are. After the marvelous pics is a video of the event and there are a few others on YT.