Risa Watanabe: Her resounding and possibly historical(?) 37th post!

 

 This could be a semi historical post as it should be the last Keya one before they change their group name on October 14th. For the first time yesterday briefly described the difference between a group post and a solo one such as this. The group posts are for when I discuss events such as a name change(a rarity), a final concert, new singles or albums or just mainly what's going in with a group such as Keya. Do the same thing for Nogi and for both groups will also have mag spreads and such for those members who never have solo posts and aren't heard about enough. So in these solo posts just try to concentrate on the member's activities, pics and whatever and leave the the rest to group posts and hope all of that made sense.

 On to Risa who really hasn't been as quite as it seems this year. This is her eighth solo post in eight months which is actually a decent pace though last year at this time she had sixteen. But can see her having two or three before the faves list starts at the end of November and that'll certainly help her ranking. Of course most fans know she was second last year on the list but deep down did consider her to be #1 for 2019. In the last preliminary list done in August Risa held the eighth position though she is a much bigger fave of mine than that but it comes down to what have you done in 2020?

 Will be doing the third and final preliminary list in about three weeks. Have really only thought about the first three spots as it's a battle for the top spot. But thinking about it now bet Risa will move up a position or two for that next list, if the next two months are busy which I expect them to be she may come out of nowhere to end up in the top five for the third year in a row. What's pleasing is that Risa's posts are becoming popular once again, last year her posts had the highest average of views of anyone. But her first four posts for 2020 placed her in the 14th position and what a drop that was. But her last three posts have drawn a huge amount of views and hopefully this one will too. In December will figure out who the popular gals were for this year and perhaps she can move back into the top ten.

 Risa's last post was exactly three weeks ago yet there's been forty new pics that have come out since then. Plus have about 25 older ones which are new for here and will have to say the quality of her posts the last two years are second to none, plus they're usually the largest. For her next post hope to have this spread which hasn't come out yet as Risa will be the cover girl for the November issue of Bubka and how about that second pic!!!! It'll be her first spread besides NN since June, she's also going to be in the next issue of BLT though don't know if it'll be a group set.

 Have a nice batch of older promo cards for Keya's app game called 'Keyakise'. There's still many old ones to get to but wish they would start releasing more new ones. You will notice some are for Keya's 2016 drama 'Tokuyama' which was a show I enjoyed. To me it'd make so much sense if the group had another drama and perhaps having it revolve around them changing their name.

 One thing that were always in Risa's posts were many pics from the Non-no site and quite often those pics deserved a grade of A++++. But the amount of them at the site has really dwindled the past two months, these are the only ones in the past three weeks.

 Had to come back to add these pics in which are from Non-no's November issue. 

 On September 4th after a five month delay Keya released their cinema documentary though the premiere of it was a bit too low key. However there were many group interviews done for it which I think have all been posted but Risa did do a solo interview for the Oricon site where the new name change was also talked about:  Risa Interview

 Risa's last post had many pics from the September 5th 'Tokyo Girls Collection's show. After it she did another interview which was for the Mynavi site where she once again discussed the documentary and also what may be Keya's future: Mynavi interview

 That was from the Autumn/Winter TGC show and have no clue if there will be one held by 'Girls Award', getting late in the year so sadly probably not. But do have some beyond ideal pics from their Spring 2019 show that was held on March 18th that year.

 Final group of pics which are new ones from the 'Uni's on Air' site plus some pics from their game. It's an online one featuring members from Keya and Hina though sadly Risa's not in the CM promoting the first anniversary of the game. No decent new videos so after the pics have an older one from NN and how I miss seeing them together!