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Wednesday, December 4, 2019

Nao Kanzaki: 'Top Twenty Faves' countdown for 2019.... #11, the enchanting Miona Hori!!!!



 Enchanting is a solid word but there's so many incredible ones to describe her. It was quite a close battle for tenth and she easily could have had that position but gave it to the fave who was 11th on all four preliminary posts. You've seen that top pic too many times to count but it's one of my all time top Nogi pics, that other one is mighty fine too. Was worried there wouldn't be enough pics for a terrific Miona post but was wrong on that as there's forty or so new pics plus have many other ones which may or may not have been seen.
 So many pics will hold a few back for Miona's next post and have a feeling she may have many more coming up in the next few months. That's because her second photobook will be coming out early next year, no date has been announced but February seems like a good bet. However haven't seen any good advance pics yet from the PB as they must be building up the suspense and as I'm 100% sure Miona won't disappoint us with those upcoming pics.


 Er, uh, gulp, no complaints from Nao but is that what Nogi gals talk about in private....

 Have a little of a lot of things but won't go too overboard as I'd like to save a few items for her next posts and as mentioned there should be many more in the next two or so months. Thought for a while that Miona may be up around the seventh position or so but from July to September she did virtually zero which really hurt her. She dropped all the way down to 16th on the final preliminary post but as you can see she's rebounded nicely and this turned out to be her highest ranking.
 I've liked Miona since day one and seems viewers here are finally warming to her as most of her posts now end up being among the ten most viewed for a month. She also wasn't a huge fave of many Nogi fans at first as I think most were upset that she was the center for her debut single. But that song "Barrette" is one of my top singles from Nogi.
 Let's get on with the pics as I'm sure most reading this know about her history. Would like to see her center another single as her first one was the only one to date but she's always in the front row. If we're talking history let's go way back in time and I think this set from the October 28, 2013 issue of WPB was her first ever solo spread. She would have been around seventeen at the time, her 23rd birthday took place on October 15th.





 Have two new spreads for Miona, one is for With but going to hold off on that for now and have it in her next post as there's plenty of pics for today. She's an exclusive model for the ar magazine and this set is from their December issue.






 At one time Miona was Nogi's best blogger but has tapered off the past year though she does post a lot of Instagram pics. Not going to have any of those pics today but do have some recent ones from her 'Recon' radio show that airs Wednesday nights, she's been a co-host for over two years.












 On December 2nd Miona and four other Nogi members were at a Red Cross event at the Club eX in Tokyo. The same five also were at an event last year for the same purpose which was to ask for people to donate blood which decreases quite a bit during the holiday season. She said when she was small she asked Santa for a dog but it never happened so these days she has two not including Nao! Plenty of pics from the event and will have many more in the next Nogi group post. Will check for a CM but odds are there isn't one though it would surely help donations. EDIT: Checked and as predicted there are none along with zero from the event that wouldn't get deleted.















 Few older X-Mas cards to get you into the mood of the season, so far haven't seen any for this year.






 As mentioned am holding back one spread for her next post but will have an encore viewing of her best set of the year that was from the August issue of UTB, also her biggest at twenty pics.





















 Miona has been my #1 Nogi member for about two years and shows no signs of giving that title up but wonder how she would do on an all time list? Not sure she would take the top spot but then again my #1 for the past five years is about to get demoted so guess she'd be next in line. For a few months have been promising to compile all of her Nogi cards for the year and for the most part have done that. Will end off with them and they do go in order from January to October plus there's a few special cards, 61 in all. No recent videos which is usually the case with Nogi members. So will go way back in time, 5 1/2 years to be exact, to June 2014 and Miona's video for BLT. They used to put out a mag called 'Nogi Quarterly' which was quite good and it's a shame it's no longer around.






























































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