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Monday, February 10, 2020

Hinako Sakurai: A lot of this and that's.....


 Also her first post of the year and hope there's plenty more but wonder if that would be to the dismay of most viewers? For some reason Hinako may be the least popular gal I post about on a regular basis and she's had close to twenty since August. But her posts have the lowest average of views for any actress which is such a shame as she's one of my top faves. So up there is Hinako she wasn't that far away from being my number one for 2019, she finished fifth on the list but I actually like her more than any of the other nineteen gals save for perhaps one of them.


 Though it's her first post of the year Hinako has been a busy person but most of those activities to date don't make for ultra exciting posts. So today's post along with most of her future ones will have a mix of older things as there's many happenings from 2016-18 to get to. Hinako has a Line blog which she usually updates often but so far this year she's slowed down with the posts but the pics she's had all rate an A++++.












 What may come as a surprise to many is who Hinako's best mate is. That's Rena and the pair first met on the set of the "Last Cop" drama back in 2016, the duo were also in a 2018 horror film.








 Think the main reason Hinako didn't take last year's top spot on my faves list is because she went from January to August without a post. She was semi busy but not like she usually is, hope there isn't a break like that this year and don't think there will be. That January post included some info on her upcoming drama at the time, "Secret Unrequited Love".









 Unsure if I'll recap the series but it wasn't a long one at seven episodes that averaged forty minutes in length. Just viewed the first episode which was quite enjoyable, she plays a sixteen year old new to high school though at the time Hinako was just shy of turning 22 in age. In the show she plays the character of Mayu who as mentioned is new to the elite Shindo high school.
 The reason she wanted to attend the school was to meet her old friend Takuma, they had been so close when they were younger but he had broken things off. When they were younger they met in a hospital, the full details haven't been revealed yet but Takuma has some kind of disease and he's not expected to live past twenty. It's going to be a tearjerker at the end but it has started off somewhat lighthearted. Mayu isn't the brightest of girls and had to study so hard to pass the entrance exams just to reunite with her old friend, she is a quite adept though at Kendo. Some screenshots from the first show and it was worth it to watch her running through the halls with just a towel around her....





















 No recent mag spreads for Hinako so when that happens in a post have been reviving some older ones that haven't been posted or least don't think they have. She's the cover girl for both sets with the first one being from the May 15, 2018 issue of SPA!, she was the cover girl yet only two pics? The other spread is from the April 17, 2017 edition of Big Comic Spirits.










 Just the one pic from the Biteki site which was for an interview about jewelry and such, would like her to become a model for the magazine.


 Final Hinako happening are some stupendous pics from a February 9th event put on by 'Tokyo Girls Collection'. It was mainly an audition for eight entertainment firms looking for new talent and 8,000 had submitted an application. Hinako was a special judge at the audition and drew the names for a lottery too. Plenty of pics from the event but wasn't impressed by any of the videos so after the pics have a really fun CM for Aurora from 2016 that features a behind the scenes segment.

















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