Rie Kitahara: Two recent mag spreads plus more....

 Do have a pair of newish Rie mag spreads but for 2017 there was such a shortage of them, think there may have been two of them if that many. However there's many from previous years and will get to them before Rie's graduation which there hasn't been an official date set yet. She's now the captain of NGT and their third single will be coming out on April 11th so would think the graduation may be taking place a bit after that.
 Was counting up the '48' groups and there's now a total of eleven of them!!!! I can't keep track of them and these days seems SKE is the only group that still puts out quality singles though the ones from HKT aren't too bad. Rie has many fans around her, the post for her first and only photobook "Soshite" has been among the most viewed posts for the past month and think it's in the fifth position. It's first week out it was the second best selling PB on the Oricon charts, it dropped to sixth in week two selling 7,000 copies in those two weeks.

 Many other AKB members over the years are suited better to be a gravure model than Rie is though I thought the PB was quite good. After the graduation acting appears to be Rie's next career, she's been in many films and dramas outside of AKB though it'll be tough for her to beat her role as a Team Hormone member.
 At the top of the post is a trailer for Rie's new film which just came out today, title of it is "Sunny/32" and more info further on down the post. On to the pair of mag spreads and both are promoting the photobook as the pics appear to be outtakes from it. First off is from the December 19th edition of Flash and it's the only time I've seen Rie have a solo cover.

 Second set is also from Flash and is brand new from their February 27th issue.

 In the "Sunny/32" film Rie has the lead role of Akari in it, really looks to be an interesting movie. Akira is a teacher who is kidnapped by two men who seem to think she's a woman they follow on the internet which isn't the case.
 On January 18th the first screening was held for the film at Wald 9 in Shinjuku. As you can see in the top pics Rie is showing the audience how she was tied up in the movie and sure a few males had their imagination running wild during that segment.

 Wald 9 was also the location for the film's premiere which took place today. The female dressed in white above and black below is Mugi Kadawaki and I've come so close to doing some posts for her but have never got around to it. Mugi plays the real Sunny in the film, now that I think about there were probably many screenshots of her as I reviewed the "Schoolgirl Complex" film and she had one of the starring roles in it. Many pics here from today's premiere followed by a video of it.
 Oooops, made a mistake as I didn't review that film and wonder why as I really enjoyed it. That being the case will move it towards the top of my 'need to post' list.