Rika Izumi: Happy 32nd birthday(!) and will this be her....

 

.... final post ever? Did say yesterday in a preliminary post for this year's faves that there would be no more posts for one of my all time faves, so huge she's not far from being #1 of all time. But thought things over and would hate to see Rika depart from here so abruptly and on a semi-sour note. As mentioned have learned she's been dating someone off and on for about four years but these days it appears to be much more on. No engagement news or anything like that but I try not to post about women who are married or on the verge of it. But don't think Rika will be getting hitched in the next week or so(!) though she is 32 now so of course I can understand her wanting to settle down.

 This is her 47th post in 39 months which is a very high average, 1.2 posts a month. Was also not going to include Rika on this year's faves list but will, it'll be starting in about six weeks and it didn't seem right for her to be in the top five for 46 weeks and then get canned just like that. So will attempt to have three more posts so she hits fifty, then again perhaps things will remain the same in her private life and those posts won's stop at fifty.

 Rika does have a huge fan base here though she's not as popular as she was two years ago. Have a strong feeling it's because she doesn't do that many gravure spreads these days but in the past she really only did them promoting her photobooks. To me her regular modeling pics all get a grade of A++++ and if you like those kinds of pics from her this post is for you as there's about sixty new ones.

 As usual no new event pics and as I've said for so long that's a shame as she looks so classy at them. But do have some pics that weren't posted from an event last November 24th and what struck me was how it looked as though Rika was checking out engagement rings! That wasn't the case but at the ceremony she was chosen as the female 'Nail Queen of the Year'. It's an award show in it's 24th year which is put on by the 'Japan Nail Association' and don't know if there will be a show this year.

 Have a ton of new modeling pics for today and could have had so many more. So Rika's next post should be a huge one too and she's #1 as far as how many pics are in her posts. That next one though probably won't be until the faves list is done, figure she'll finish in the fifth position so that would be in about two months. First batch of pics are for the Apuweiser Autumn collection.

 It is that time of year for Autumn and Winter collections which is why there's no many new pics and all are in that vein. Snidel is a new line she's working for and plenty of super pics from them.

 This third batch is the final one for new modeling pics though could have some from a few other fashion sites. These are new from Stola and Rika's been with them for many years.

 There's been a slowdown on mag spreads this year for Rika. But she does appear in every monthly issue of Oggi and this set is from their October edition, fifth time this year she's been the cover girl.

 Those spreads for them are always quite superb but prefer the pics from the Oggi site, Rika's been an exclusive model for them since May 2019 but it seems much longer than that. These are all new from the site and can't believe how many they had but no complaints from me....

 Will end off with some dazzling pics of Rika and you can see why she may be my #1 of all time. Most you've seen before but maybe there's a few new viewers who don't know her well. After the pics have a video from that November Nail Queen awards show.