This is the first group post in exactly four months though there have been seven solo ones yet that's really not all that many compared to last year. This will be the only post for today as it turned out to be one of the largest ones of the year. 2020 has not been a good year for Keya but seems they've been busier as of late and have a huge amount of recent pics plus a few oldies that have never been posted before. Leading off is Minami who I truly adore to no end, she's had five solo posts but the last one was a year ago. Hard to get enough pics of her for one of those posts but bet she'll have more pics than anyone today. If she was a model for some site or mag and did more projects outside of Keya she'd be knocking on the door to be my #1 member.
In a few of those solo posts have mentioned I'd wait until a group post was done to give a minor rant about their current situation and what the future may hold. Won't do that today and let's just wait until we know definitely what will be happening. What we do know is that their final concert with the Keya name will be taking place towards the end of next month, they'll also have a 'greatest hits' album coming out. One time a popular J-Pop group did change their name who was S/Mileage that changed to ANGERME. They had lost many members and decided to start fresh and to this day are still an active H!P group. So once the new name change takes place have no clue how long it'll be until their first single, you would have to think next year. So I'll wait to hear a bit more of what will be taking place and it does seem Keya is trying to go out on a high note. Speaking of 'high notes' hard to get much higher than scintillating pics such as the ones here at the top.... sigh....
On August 21st Keya released their final single under that name which was "Dare ga Sono Kane wa Narasu no ka", it's a decent tune but not one I'd listen to often in the future. It was only a digital single, it's first two weeks out it sold 41,500 copies or should I say downloads. However a hard copy single would usually sell 800,000+ copies so what a loss in money for their record company. As a matter of fact Keya's previous single came out at the end of February 2019, if they had their usual pace another 4-5 singles would have come out in that stretch.
Not trying to bore you but if four singles sold 800,000 copies that's 3.2 million and if you times that by $10-12 for a selling price what an incredible hit their record company took financially. If I was the CEO of that company I'd can Keya's management in a heartbeat, how inept can those people be? But I feel more for the members who do make a weekly salary but most of their income is from outside work. Such as mag spreads, modeling work, events, CM's and a few other activities. But with no new songs the members haven't been nearly as busy as they once were which is a reason many have left. Really wasn't going to give any opinions or have a minor rant but that needed to be said.
Let's get to the recent pics and what I've been noticing this past year is that there's just a core of about seven members you see often in mags or at events. Sure a few of you have noticed that too and the trend continues today. Did say Minami would have the most pics and these are new from the Keya member's blog called 'Diary'.
Just have one mag spread for today which will end the post off and there's been so few the last four or perhaps more months. Minami won't be in that spread but she does have an upcoming one for BLT Graph and these are from the photo shoot.
Even more Minami pics which are these older 'Keyakise' promo game cards from 2018. Also have a few for the second generation member Hono, you'll notice some of her cards are birthday ones. Bit early but in case there's no upcoming group post she'll be celebrating birthday #22 on October 21st.
Last batch of Minami pics which are from an interview for the Real Sound site.
Those pics were for Keya's documentary which was released last Thursday after being delayed twice. There are so many interview pics can't post them all but do have a few more here from the Model Press site.
Few more of them with Akane and the interview was with Oricon. Her photobook was in a July post and what a popular post that ended up being, she could be Keya's most sultry member and glad so many others like her too.
Will also have some more interview pics for one that came out today. It features a duo and one is Risa whose last post has finally been a massive hit. Hope to have that next post this weekend and it'll be for Yui, she was at last weekend's TGC show and looked the best of any member. But like most Keya gals there's been such a shortage of pics for her, at one time she seemed to be in two mag spreads a month but it's been a while since she's been in any besides for With.
EDIT: Oooops, almost forgot to add these pics in which are from the premiere of the documentary that took place last Thursday.
Though very few mag spreads recently do have some modeling pics for a pair of members. Rika has been a model for the Ray magazine for a few years and have some pics from their site but the last two months the amount of them has really slowed down.
However Mizuho's pics at the JJ site have increased quite a bit this year.
More Mizuho and these are from the 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show that took place on September 5th. She was there with three other members, the show had no audience but was streamed live. She took one solo stroll and joined her mates to promote a new AEON Keya credit card.
Also at the show was Rika who really looked fine, at 25 she's Keya's oldest member.
Am holding back about twenty pics, there's probably over a hundred today and why not save them for another post to be done soon instead of having such a long gap? Did say there's been such a shortage of mag spreads for all members, there's only been one decent one these past four months, actually two if you include this superb set featuring Akane from the June edition of BLT Graph. Too often videos get deleted on YT so instead will have a link to Keya's channel there where you can view their new single and many other things: Keya's YT channel
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