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Wednesday, May 19, 2021

Miru Shiroma: Sigh, will her scintillating posts soon be.....

 


 .... coming to an end? Sadly have a feeling that may be the case in about two months yet this is her first post since.... November 28!!!! That's almost six months and Miru had never had such a long stretch without having any, previous three years she averaged about a post every seven weeks. Been wanting to do something for her but that's been close to impossible so far this year or at least a decent post.

 Since March 2nd is when I wanted to do a post as on that date is when she announced her graduation from NMB and she's the final first generation member in the group. But like most fans or even Miru herself have no clue when her official graduation will be taking place. Her final concert was supposed to be held on May 30th in Osaka but that was cancelled last week. So as of now don't know what's going to be happening and of course the health crisis in Japan was the reason for the postponement. But NMB's management had to figure that would happen so don't know why it was scheduled in the first place and her fans have been left hanging.



 I was a bit surprised at the announcement, of course it was going to eventually happen but this isn't a good time in Japan for an ex-Idol to begin a new career. Miru won't be turning 24 until October so it's not as if age was a reason, perhaps after eleven years she's grown tired of the J-Pop life? But she has said a solo singing career is something she'd like to pursue and also being an actress but she's done so little acting work. So obviously this won't be Miru's final post and I really expect there to be at least one more before her graduation but as mentioned who knows what's going on with that?



 So Miru doesn't really have much set up at this point for what she'll be doing after her NMB departure. She's no longer a model for any site/company though of course she could always keep doing gravure work to pay the bills and how many women are hotter than her in the world? Very few is my answer and I bet the answer from most viewers. Miru is so, so popular here and the post for her "Love Rush" photobook is now the eighth most viewed post of all time. So she's been such a long time huge fave of mine and you viewers, hate to see her go out on such a quiet note. But that graduation concert is just postponed and not cancelled, hope it doesn't come down to being a streamed event.



 Let's get on to some regular happenings and her final single as a NMB member will be coming out on June16th. That sounds odd to me, her final concert would have been on May 30th yet the single wouldn't have been released for another two weeks? Title of the single which she'll center is "Shidare Yanagi", it's the group's 25th. To me they don't have what I would consider to be any 'classic singles' yet all of their songs are quite good, especially the ones from the last few years. Here's the covers for the single and am kind of surprised there's no PV out for it yet, hopefully any day. So here's a link to he group performing the single on TV two weeks ago: Shidare Yanagi live





 May hold a few things back so there won't be another large gap between posts, can't see having many after her graduation. Would have loved to see a graduation photobook for Miru and why didn't she have one? At least three other members have had a PB and seeing as how "Love Rush" was a decent seller it would have been so nice to see. Few recent pics here from the NMB blog, not enough solo ones.











 Miru used to be a model for two sites and wonder what happened with that? Back on March 7th she did do some modeling at the tenth anniversary of the 'Kansai Collection' show held at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka. She took three strolls on the catwalk promoting the Spring lines for F-Int and two for Aland.






















 Miru did help produce an NMB mini stage play in April that had five performances, don't think that'll be part of her future plans though. As mentioned her last spread was on November 28th, she went close to six months without appearing in a spread and am really hoping there will be many more for her graduation. Miru's the cover girl for the May 18th issue of SPA! yet only two pages?!




 This set of outtake pics from the June edition of EX-Taishu are larger than the above spread.








 Here's the regular spread from the June EX-Taishu and Miru has been their cover girl too many times to count. Could post one of her many breathtaking gravure videos but instead will have a link to her YT channel, she uploads at least one entertaining and long video a week: Miru's YT channel















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