Hinatazaka46: Their quest to rule the Universe continues....

 

 Clean teeth are an essential if one wants to rule the Universe(or Nao's heart!)! Looking back at June there were only three of these group posts and for some reason thought the total was twice that. But also had a solo post for above sultry member(!) and also eight posts for their "Koeharu!" drama. The ninth show was just subbed yesterday so at the end of next week will have the final two posts for the series. It's one I've been enjoying and has gotten much better as it's gone on, always get a bit sad when an Idol drama ends as it's usually a long wait until the next one. Another huge post with ninety or so pics but think these will be slowing down a bit, the group has been nonstop busy for many months so they may need a breather plus with the Olympics starting in three weeks many groups will be taking it easy.

 If she releases me hope to have another solo post in another week or so.... but the question is do I want to be released? No need to answer that and in eight days the W-KEYAKI festival will begin which lasts for three days. Keya will take the stage on July 9th, Hina on the 10th and the following day the two groups will perform a regular concert together which I don't think has ever happened. The event will be taking place at the FujiQ Highland Conifer Park which is an amusement center in Yamanashi, that's the city where the "Yuru Camp" drama was filmed. It's going to be streamed live so hope to get a copy of it and it'll be the first time either group has performed in front of fans this year.

 Nao's first photobook came out two days ago and it's expected to be a massive seller. There was an initial printing of 150,000 copies and 20,000 more have been printed. However last week Nao did announce she was taking a short break from the group as she was a bit burnt out, second member to do so this year and the members do need somewhat of a break. She's the cover girl for the July issue of Seventeen which doesn't have outtake pics from the PB but does promote it a bit.

 As usual have a lot of different things for a group post, do try to feature most of the older members which isn't always possible but almost all have had their turn in the spotlight. The group's captain Kumi is always a member who I try to have pics for and she's someone who I do like quite a bit. She's a model for the Ray magazine, first seven pics are new from their site and the rest are from Hina's blog.

 

 Mei is an even bigger fave of mine from the group, to date she's never had a solo post but will have one coming up so may hold back her new pics for a while. Will have that post on August 23rd when she'll be turning 23, that only happens once in a lifetime and some recent blog pics.

 That bottom pic is from the "Koeharu!" drama where she had a smallish part as a member of the Idol group Chocola Chocola. In the last group post had a fine Mei spread from the August issue of Bubka, here's some super duper outtake pics.

 'Uni's on Air' is a web game featuring members from Hina and Keya, the promo pics for the game are always superb. But did read that the game may be ending in August, really hope not and will investigate that more for the next group post. Have three new sets of four pics each for the members from Uni's, in order it goes Sarina, Mana and Hina whose next birthday is on July 23rd.

 Huge amount of pics for today though not as many activities as usual. There's one more batch to go after this set which are from the photo shoot for the August issue of BLT which features the trio of Konoka, Suzuka and Miho.

 Here's the BLT spread and at seventeen pages it's quite a large one and the trio also are a subunit group called Gori Gori. Konoka and Suzura are both guitar players and two weeks ago performed a song on MTV, following the pics is a behind the scenes video from the show.