Akari Suda: Another extremely overdue post....

 

 The weekends have become such a difficult time to do posts and lately it's been tough doing any as what I've done is held back some posts to publish on the weekend. That's not the case for this post but have been wanting to do this for many months now, the extremely overdue post in the title isn't my fault as there's not many faves who I'd rather do a post for. Was just was thinking there's hardly any SKE posts these days, even for their graduates and can remember doing 3-4 a month for the members. Akari's 30th birthday(!) will be coming up on October 31st, what a day for a birthday! This may sound odd but she's so hard to have posts for so was already working on one for that day but thought why not have another post or kind of a reintroduction. So while this is Akari's 21st post it's only her second solo one in 2 1/2 years and that does bum me out a bit. So bet many viewers have never seen many of her pics and such so with there not being much else going on why not a post for her?!

 There's this trio of faves who I like immensely, had any of them had more posts they'd be in the battle to be my #1 of all time when the second list is done next Spring. Well obviously brought that up as Akari is one of those gals and she did finish second on the 2018 yearly fave's list. Since then there's been hardly anything to post about her and I think the main reason is because her photobook that came out in 2018 really stiffed sales wise. She is busy to an extent and bet no Idol appears on more variety shows but that's not an activity you can post about. As mentioned October 31st is her 30th birthday and it's rare to see an Idol that age, Akari says she has no plans on leaving for a while. Read in an interview she has no clue what she would do after leaving SKE and I'm glad she's remained with the group but like many others they haven't been that busy over the last year or so.

 Whew, if I ever get around to doing that 'All Time Hottest Faves' list Akari would finish way up there, to me she'd be in the top five and had she been busier would be vying for the top spot. So today's post is a mixed bag of things, some older pics and a few brand new ones. Will still be working on that birthday post which should be a good one as there will finally be a new mag spread as Akari will be the cover girl for the next issue of Bubka.

 That'll be her first solo spread since last December and the bottom pic is a poster for the "Uchihime Obakamiko" film that came out on February 5th. Have been looking for it but haven't found it anywhere but I'll eventually get it and hopefully not two years from now. Akari had the lead role in the film which is about Mahjong and looks to be a decent film. There was no premiere for it but there was an event some months later to promote the DVD, will have those pics in her next post. These are interview pics for the film with the Crank site and here's the trailer to the movie: Uchihime Obakamiko trailer

 Not many post as many Instagram pics as Akari does, this batch just contains her June pics and is she pointing out to me in the bottom one that her ring finger is bare? 😍

 Not as many SKE cards these days but these are new from July and August.

 Compare those above to this oldie batch that's from 2013!

 As mentioned no new mag spreads for today but Akari will be the cover girl for the next issue of Bubka. She's appeared in that magazine many times over the years and those spreads have been better than Oki-Doki such as this set from their June 2017 issue.

 Would think not many viewers have seen her older spreads so if you have the time check out her other posts. Here's another terrific semi ancient spread from the May 2016 edition of Girls!.

 We've hit the end, while not enough newish pics I really enjoy doing posts for her which has become such a rarity. Akari's first and only photobook "Kawaikunaru Houhou" was released in August 2018, it's one of my top books ever as I ranked it fourth on my all time fave photobooks list!!!! However that was kind of a career killer as 50,000 copies were printed yet sales have only been about 15,000 sold to date. So since then Akari hasn't appeared in as many mags and it wasn't her fault at all the sales were so low as it's one fabulous book of pics. So if you haven't seen that post here's the link to it and sadly this will probably be her only PB because of those low sales: Akari's first photobook

**** Haven't done an SKE group post for eons so after the pics have a video for their latest single which is titled "Ano Koro no Kimi wo Mitsuketa". It came out on September 1st and of course it was #1 in it's first week out selling 187,000 copies, sales these days for Idol groups have really fallen off. The video is the PV of the song and had wanted to have a TV version which was a decent video but the station has blocked it from being embedded, grrrrrrr....