Nogizaka46; The out of the blue and effulgent 'Hinako Kitano post' #19....

 

 Out of the blue is certainly one true statement and hope there's more that posts from her that stun me. This makes three months in a row for a Hinako solo post which has never happened before, her last one was just 25 days ago so there's not a huge amount of new pics. But the first Nogi group event of the year was held today, have 26 pics from it so jumped at the chance to have another post for my sometimes(?) #1 Nogi member. Plus Hinako is really popular here with Nogi fans, yesterday her post from August made the top ten list for most viewed posts in a month which means fans had to search for that post and she thanks you for doing that!

 What's slightly amazing is that this is Hinako's fifth post of the year which is a record for her, one more and she'll qualify for this year's fave's list for the first time. When I said that Hinako has sometimes been my #1 Nogi member it's because of the lack of solo posts. Do like her more than any other member but it's easy to forget about someone who hasn't had a post for a while but obviously three in eight weeks may mean she's back to being my number one Nogi gal.

 The post will end off with today's event, have 26 pics from it and will now be looking for a video. Also have ten other brand new pics plus some new and old group cards. In April Hinako opened her own IG page so hasn't been posting many pics at the Nogi blog, only these few from the last 25 days.

 Havehad four posts for the second generation members but none since May. Seeing as how I do solo posts for Hinako and someone else may stop those group posts and have solo ones for the other three but that's always proved so difficult. So when you add the two and three together you get five and that's all that's remaining for second generation members, recent pics for the quintet.

 The 2G members joined the group in May 2013 but didn't appear on a single until March 2014. They used to do many concerts and to me those were so much better than he Senbatsu shows, now with only five left guess we'll never see another one. So while the members did appear in many mags in 2014/15 none were solo spreads. Hinako's first two solo sets came out in May 2016, think that's about the time I fell hard for her. So in a bit of an historical moment these are Hinako's first two solo spreads, they came out so close to the same time hard to say which was first. First six pics are from Bubka while the others are from Young Gangan.

 Plenty of cards for the 'NogiKoi' app game and none had been posted before. Final seven are brand new and that last pic of Hinako is out of this world, whewwww....

 We've hit the end and as mentioned Nogi had their first group event of the year today, wasn't that long ago when there was at least one a month. The occasion was to promote their new Smartphone app game called 'Nogizaka Fractal' which came out in August. The object is to create your own ideal Nogi group by collecting unique uniforms, songs and other things. As you can see in the bottom pic six members were there, Hinako is on the right and will try to have yet another post very, very soon for the member on the extreme left. Naturally there's no video of a Nogi event but have a better one to view which is after the pics that's a behind the scenes video for the game's CM.