Nogizaka46: 2020 Magazine scans #8 plus of course much more!!!!

 Think this is the first time there's ever been back to back 'regular' Nogi posts. It's happened a few times for their appearances at TGC or 'Girls Award' shows but not two in a row with mag spreads and other goodies. Plenty of pics for this post which may be larger than yesterday's, hopefully this will be a busy week as my supply of new Nogi pics and news is down to almost zero. Sure all viewers know what a slow time it is in Japan and Korea for activities so will be taking a day off each week from posting, think I'll make that a Monday meaning you'll see me again on Tuesday. Least many of my bigger faves have been busy so there hasn't been too much of a slowdown with posts but it is getting  more difficult as almost all new dramas, films and other things have been postponed.
 Above and right below are some pics you may have never seen from Mizuki's first photobook that came out eleven weeks ago. Do have the PB and said there would be a post with the tremendous pics this week but will hold off on that for a while longer. The book is still in the top ten for sales, to date it's sold about 152,000 copies. Don't want to affect those sales so once it drops out of the top ten will be doing a post for it.

 Speaking of sales the two week total for Nogi's 25th single "Shiwase no Hogoshoku" stand at 1,042,264 copies sold. That puts it slightly ahead of their previous single but the three before that sold more copies after two weeks than this one. Sure the crisis in Japan has played a major part in the decrease in sales as not many fans are going to music stores but that figure still isn't a bad one. The single not being one of their better songs may have affected sales too. But it's not just Nogi that have had lower sales as that's the case for other acts these days too. Last week the #1 album just sold 19,926 copies and have never seen such a low figure for a number one album.

 Sadly there's more bad news though the above wasn't exactly too negative as over a million copies sold after two weeks is still impressive. But the group's upcoming film "Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!" that was to come out on May 15th starring a trio of members has been postponed and think that's the case for all films that were going to be released between now and the end of next month. No new date has been announced but least the drama with the same name is still airing. This is the poster for the movie along with a few stills from it.

 Yesterday had many new pics of Asuka from the GRL site, have a few more today with some other members. Second to last pic includes Miona but saving her solo pics for her next solo post, have been working on one which hopefully will happen within the next week.

 As most know Manatsu released her second photobook last week and wonder what the sales figures will be considering so many fans aren't going to bookstores? May not affect first week sales too much as they're usually pre-orders and this looks to be superb PB so hope it works out well for her. The pics for the book were taken in Italy, of course many months ago, and Okinawa. These are from a new interview promoting the PB with the Model Press site, top pic is from the book which hadn't been posted yet and let your imagination run wild....

 She'll have today's first spread which is from the April 14th issue of Flash and features outtake pics from the book.

 Yuki's photobook has sold quite well and should end up being Nogi's best selling one of the year but someone else will beat her out for having the best selling PB for 2020. This set is from a new special Flash issue called 'Best of Spring' 2020 which features a few unseen outtake pics from the book.

 May as well keep the Flash theme going for one more spread. Two weeks ago did a second generation post that had a massive amount of pics from volume 12 of Platinum Flash. These two gals never get enough pics in posts so will have an encore viewing from that spread which features Ayane. With her is Kotoko who was supposed to graduate on March 31st but like the two other members who were also going to graduate think it's been put on hold for a while.

 Have one more thing after this but the final spread belongs to the gal who started the post off. That's Mizuki and this set is from the May issue of UTB.

 One of my all time top members is Kazumi who we don't see enough of in these posts. I think she's such an underrated beauty and of all the members who are in or have passed through Nogi I think she'd probably make for the best wife and it'd be nice if she was reading this! On March 30th she was at an event for the new TV anime 'Digimon Adventure' but of course there was no audience at the event, the series began on April 5th. Was hoping that Kazumi was a voice of one of the characters but she was there as a special 'cheerleader' as she said at the event that she's been such a huge fan of Digimon since she was about ten years old, she turned 26 back in February. No recent videos that are that interesting so have one of my top ones from her following the pics which is from BLT, it's over five years old and was for their 'Nogizaka Quarterly' series.