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Saturday, August 29, 2020
Rika Izumi: A month shouldn't go by without a post....
.... for her yet noticed that was the case in January, it's the only month since April 2019 she hasn't had a post. This is Rika's tenth post in the last seven months and though her popularity seems to be dwindling she's still near the top of the list for me. As I've said too many times in her posts Rika will probably never finish first on a yearly list but for now would place her in the second position on my all time faves list and when the next one is done she could be #1. She's currently third on this year's list and it'll make four years in a row placing in the top six.
First introduced Rika at the end of July 2017, her 46 posts since then have only been topped by two others. She was quite popular for about two years but that's not really the case these days, she'll never be unpopular here but won't be approaching the level she was once at. Can understand that slightly as Rika these days rarely does gravure spreads or pics, she really hasn't in the past too often save for promoting her photobooks. That's okay by me though, sure I'd like to see more pics like these at the top but she's going to be turning 32 in October and I may prefer her more mature, classy and elegant style. For the 28 women who had four or more posts by July 31st Rika had an average of 440 views for those posts, that's a decent number but places her just 17th most popular out of those 28 gals.
Of course a Rika post is never hum-drum but have noticed they're slowly falling into a rut though not a bad one. Seems all pics these days are from modeling sites and 2-3 of the same mags but least the pics all rate a ten. Sure the situation in Japan has played a part in the lack of variety as she hasn't been able to attend events nor could she promote her second photobook as much. Next weekend is the Autumn 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show but she's only appeared at one ever as you seldom see models over thirty in age. Do have some never before seen pics from the Autumn 2015 'Girls Award' show which was before she became much bigger so there was a definite lack of them.
Have 55 new pics of Rika for today, though her popularity here has waned know she still has many fans and sure they think all of her modeling pics look so super duper. She's now a model for With magazine, she was the cover girl for their July issue and these are new from the With Online site.
More tremendous new modeling pics for Apuweiser-riche.
One more batch which is from the Bijin Hyakka site, she'll be the cover girl for their next issue.
Missed this mini spread in Rika's last post which was from the June edition of ar.
Sigh, there's just some things that are not possible in the world....
Rarely is there a Rika post without pics from the Oggi magazine site, she's been an exclusive model for them since May 2019 but seems it's been much longer than that.
Too small of a spread from their September issue but she'll also have the honor for their October edition and that'll be four months in a row being the cover girl.
Rika's spread in Oggi's August issue was quite huge at twenty pics so held this set back which was a separate special wedding spread and can you think of a more ideal bride?! I can't and after the pics have a short promo video of the photo shoot for her upcoming Bijin Hyakka spread which I'll have in her next post.
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