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Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Yuki Kashiwagi: Pair of new mag spreads and more....


 Yuki had auditioned for Morning Musume's 8th generation back in 2006 but obviously didn't pass. Later on the year, December to be exact, she joined AKB and think how much J-Pop history would have been different if Yuki had passed the audition. Wouldn't have been nearly as popular as an MM member but a bit curious how things would have worked out for her had she been in the group.



 Yuki will be performing her first two solo concerts in Shanghai next week. Wish she had more solo singles, there were two back in 2013 which were both good but strangely none since then. One other thing that's lacking from Yuki's resume are photobooks, she's had two that were released in 2009 and 2012. Kind of hard to believe that's been it but maybe Yuki doesn't feel she needs to do any which is such a shame as there aren't many females in the world who top her looks.
 Yuki for the past two years has uploaded so many pics to her Instagram site, seems as there was at least one new pic every day. The last month though there's been a big slowdown but do have a few new pics from the site along with some AKB X-Mas cards.











 Besides AKB Yuki is also a member of NGT48 which are based out of Niigata. The group has been around since 2015 yet only released their first two singles in 2017. Their latest one "Sekai wa Doko Made Aozora na no ka?" came out on December 6th. Shocking it only hit the #2 in it's first week out, to date it's sold close to 175,000 copies which is a drop in the bucket compared to AKB.



 On to the pair of new mag spreads and while there's just the two they do total up to be 25 pics and Yuki looks more tremendous than ever. First off is from the January 23rd issue of Young Champion, not sure what the tenth anniversary means. Perhaps it's been ten years since her first spread with them as in December Yuki celebrated her 11th anniversary with AKB.












 Once again Yuki graces a cover and it's for the February edition of EX-Taishu, bottom four pics are bonus ones. After the fabulous set of pics you can check out the PV for the 'Sekai' single, song is just okay but the video itself is kind of enjoyable plus it's subbed in English.














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