Hinatazaka46: Are here once again to save the day....

 

 They have saved the day for me a few times already this year, when it appears there may not be a post for the day can always depend on one for Hina. Hopefully this extended slowdown is coming to an end and it's been impossible to do the same amount of posts recently as you've noticed. Have the makings of quite a few posts so you may see about ten thrown at you at once. Hina's first tour in over a year begins on September 15th and goes until October 20th. They won't be performing at large arenas, medium sized ones from 10-15,000 and even then think only 50% capacity is allowed, a dozen shows in six cities. Perhaps they'll announce when their next single will be released, Nogi's next is on September 22nd while Keya has one coming out on October 6th so at the earliest would be two weeks after that.

 It may not seem like a large post but it will be, perhaps 125 or so new pics and has there been a busier J-Pop group the last two years? The answer is no and it's paid off as the group is so popular these days and it helps that the members are just so likable. So have a little bit of this and that for so many things with more members than usual, only drawback is that there's only one new spread and still no events have been taking place. But on September 4th the Autumn 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show will be taking place, Hina usually has about ten members take a stroll on the catwalk so there should be 2-3 posts after the show.

 Let's get to the massive amount of pics and we'll start off with a few for Miku. How I wish she was a bit older as she is just so darn attractive, she's a model with Bis and some pics from their site.

 More modeling pics that feature the captain Kumi and are from the Ray magazine site. Hopefully none were in the previous post and you'll see that the bottom three are with such a mega Keya fave and the pics were from the W-Keyaki Fest that took place a month ago. 

 Haven't been including many pics with Mei in the last few posts and I truly like her. What I'm planning on doing is having her first ever solo post right around August 23rd when she celebrates her 23rd birthday. But do have a few new pics for today, top ones are from a recent BLT Graph photo shoot and hope to have that spread in her b-day post, others are from the Hina blog.... how about that top pic!

 More blog pics that are with Konoka and the gals post so many of them at their Hina blog. Bottom one is from the set of the 'Love It' variety show, she's the co-host for it in August and September.

 Just one newish mag spread which features Hiyori from the July issue of EX-Taishu. It's way too small and as I mentioned in the last group post if she ever had a photobook it may be the best of any member. There's been such a slowdown with mag spreads as of late as all of a sudden they're doubling up on their issues, just one every other week or month.

 In Kyoko's last solo post had many special promo cards that were included with Hina's last single that came out on May 26th. Have a huge amount of them today for a trio of members who are Miku, Shiho who has been so quiet lately and Nao whose first PB has sold over 150,000 copies.

 The promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game that feature Hina and Keya members are often the best ones in a post. Have some brand new ones for today that feature a quartet of members who are Shiho, Kumi, Ayaka and Hiyori.

 Last thing for this post which are some screenshots from season two of the 'Hinatazaka46 desu Chotto ii desu ka?' show. Was going to recap all fifty episodes but decided against it as the subs are slow in coming, seven shows have been subbed but sixteen shows have aired. Will continue to view it and here and there may add some screenshots from some shows. The theme is for a member to 'sell' their passion or hobby to other members who hopefully will give it enough positive vote and at the end of forty or so episodes all of the winners will go into some sort of playoff, those shows I'll recap.

 This set is from episode's one and two, Yuuka was the host and what a superb job she did. Yuuka also tried to 'sell' her passion to the other five members who would vote if they really loved her hobby and want to see it make that playoff at the end of the series. Yuuka's passion was puzzles but not the kind you put together, actually she should have named it 'Brain Teasers' as members had to solve her questions which were not that easy. Kyoko is a whiz at these kinds of things as she often appears on variety shows that have them such as 'Nep League'. She was the overall winner and the members did vote for Yuuka's passion to move on to the playoffs. Will skip having a video as there hasn't been a new one for a while, Hina has their own YT channel but haven't uploaded a video in two months.