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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Keyakizaka46: The enchanting 'Minami Koike post' #5....

 

 
Have never done any kind of yearly list for my top pic(s) as there's too many superb ones to rank but that top one without a doubt would have been my #1 for 2019.

Will discuss it more in a group post as today's celebrant or any other member probably had anything to do with it.... or did they? On Sunday Keya announced during their 'Keyakitte' the group's new name which will be Sakurazaka46, not sure what's in a name though. Like many others thought of an 
ex-HKT member as Sakura is a common name in Japan. That change will be in affect on October 14th, the day after Keya p[lays their final concert with that name. Lot of questions many fans have but no solid answers for now so will wait until the next group post to talk about it more but the main wonderment of most fans is will Keya be playing their older songs after the change? One other thing is that I'll continue to use Keyakizaka46 in the titles of their posts along with the labels. After 250 posts it's not worth making a change and all fans will understand the title and labels.


 Did have a group post ten days ago which was the first one in many months but there have been a good amount of solo posts. In that group post the member with the most pics was Minami and at the time said wish there were more for a solo post. Well there actually were enough pics, am repeating about ten from that post but have fifty or so new ones you've never seen. This is Minami's fifth solo post which isn't a bad amount and she does often have pics in group ones. But do wish that total could be ten times as high as to me she could be the cutest Idol of all time, no lower than second. Minami's last post was exactly a year ago that featured an event for her photobook and some terrific mag spreads promoting it, these top pics are from the PB.


 No Keya member has had a book since then so Minami will go down in history as having the final Keya PB. That event took place on September 25th but six weeks later there was another event held for the PB in Hyogo which is Minami's hometown and it was also to celebrate her 21st birthday.









 Back on September 4th Keya released their documentary film which had been delayed since April. The event they had was a bit of a low key one but the members did do quite a few interviews for it such as these pics from the Real Sound site.









 You will notice a Keya member above who is currently #3 for being my fave Idol but checked and sadly couldn't find a spread just with the pair.





 The Keya gals these days don't do nearly as many posts as they should on their 'Diary' blog and wonder if that name will change too? Minami though is one of the better members at uploading pics and these are from the past month or so.









 Have a fairly hug batch here of some older promo cards for the 'Keyakise' app game. All of them feature her with her original hair color and sure some fans may remember for a stretch last year Minami became a blonde, I prefer her true tint.


















 On November 14th Minami will be turning 22 in age and for so long thought she was a year older. Probably won't be a  post for her then  so here's some early b-day pics.





 Have a pair of super duper Minami mag spreads to end off with. This first one is an older set but had never posted the pics in any group post and it's from volume 138 of Marquee which came out in April.









 Few pics here are from the photo shoot for....







.... the August edition of BLT Graph and bet Minami has had close to ten solo posts for the mag. It's not subbed but it's still an enjoyable video that follows the pics. It's from  a March 2018 'Keyakitte' show and with all the impending changes need to get back to viewing it more often.













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