Friday, July 24, 2020

Kazusa Okuyama: Many more "Aikagi" photobook tidbits....



**** Did have a bit of spam for a while, not much but enough to annoy me to an extent. So disabled commenting about a week ago but will enable it again over the weekend.

 Probably the only post of the day as I need to catch up on my drama viewing which I just took a five day break from but also to work on having two more photobook posts as the pics need some editing. Was just going through the stats and actually Kazusa's posts have a higher average than I thought. Yesterday said the most popular gal here had an average that was 250 views higher per post than the second place person. Knew Kazusa was in second but her average was higher than I thought as it's 890 views she gets per post so the difference was only 190. Hard to say only 190 as it'll be very difficult to make up the difference but wouldn't say it'd be an impossible task.


 Just about everything for today will be for Kazusa's second photobook "Aikagi" which came out exactly two weeks ago. Sales for books are still much lower than they were and who knows if they'll ever hit the level they were once at. After two weeks this PB has sold 2,400 copies which is definitely lower than what was to be expected but then again it's been in the top ten for sales both weeks out. Do wonder some times how Oricon figures their sales out which are the figures I go by.
 Is it by how many sales there are at bookstores and major Japanese sites? Do they count how many are sold at events or that are bought by overseas fans? To me doubt they count the last two so bet the total is higher than 2,400 and there was an event which I'll discuss later on. First off are these Kazusa interview pics from the Modelpress site for the book.








 As it says in the heading the title of Kazusa's second PB is "Aikagi", have posted some promo pics for the book which are these fabulous ones.











 Have many other new promo pics here for the book which of course are also dazzling. Kazusa's first photobook came out on March 12, 2019 which was two days after her 25th birthday.












 It's been happening very slowly but there are finally some events and concerts being held in Japan. The concerts have been held at empty venues and they've been streamed, Nogi has one coming up in a week or so. Yesterday Kazusa held the first event I've seen for a PB since March, it took place at the HMV store in Shibuya. There were fans allowed at the event but they couldn't go up and meet Kazusa which would usually happen at one of these events. The photo shoot for the PB took place in Australia and sure this event should help the book's sales.












 Kazusa will be in a drama beginning in September which is another entry in the 'Ikebukuro Police' series and there's been many seasons of it already. Will end off with this tremendous set that's from the July 27th issue of Big Comic Spirits, it's a regular set that doesn't feature outtake pics from the photobook. Kazusa is the cover girl and to me it could be the #1 spread of the year to date, the fourth and last pics are just too perfect to describe. After the pics is a video of the photo shoot which is highly recommended. EDIT: As usual a YT video was deleted.... grrrrrrr!....