Juice=Juice: Manaka Inaba 'H!P Digital Books' #192 scans....

 

 Not really an intro post though it is her first one ever. Recently did a pair of posts for Akari from

Juice=Juice who at one time were knocking on the door to become by #1 J-Pop group. That didn't happen though I still followed them and lately even more so. What happened was back in 2018 a few Hello Project groups were disbanded and the eight or so members were added to a few other groups. Most of them were a tad too young for me so because of that didn't follow Hello Project groups nearly as closely as I once did. But all of the members are naturally much older now and JJ has a new single coming out next month so would like to do a few group posts for them, their songs still are better than most groups.

 But one new gal in JJ wasn't all that young which I didn't realize and of course it's Manaka. She's 23 and joined Juice=Juice back in 2018 so could have done a few posts for her since then but never did. Actually you could say I've discovered Manaka recently and she has this terrific video on YT for her new photobook which I've viewed a few times lately and said why haven't I done a post for her? No good answer to that and while you won't be seeing many solo posts for Manaka do want to increase the amount of JJ posts, so far there's been three now in 2021 and hopefully a pair next month.

 These H!P Digital books are a good way to get to know someone, there's a fair amount of gravure pics and the ones that aren't are usually quite fabulous too. Before Manaka joined JJ in 2018 she was a member of Country Girls, they're one of the Hello Project groups that broke up. Never knew them that well but they were becoming popular so not sure why they disbanded. Juice=Juice also added a few other members, they went from five gals to ten over two years but two have graduated so now it's down to eight. Smaller groups such as H!P ones are so much better and unlike Nogi or AKB the members don't get 'buried'. Manaka is the third oldest of the eight members, their newest gal joined last March and was a member of Magnolia Girls.

 Kind of a mystery too why they disbanded as all eight of their singles hit the top five. Enough group bio and will have more info in those two(hopefully) posts in March/April. This batch of pics is from Manaka's 2018 photobook "Manaka" and she also had one that was released on her 23rd birthday. Most of these digital books contain outtake pics from photobooks and guess that's a good way to promote them though they shouldn't wait two years. At 151 cm Manaka is the shortest gal in JJ and one of the shortest Idols around but I think she looks mighty fine. This collection is like most of these books as it contains exactly one hundred pics.