Huge as it's impossible to have a small Hina post but kind of mini as it's not as large as a usual post and while many pics not a lot of different activities. But wanted a bit of an easier post as I'm working on 5-6 for this weekend and they'll take a little time. Was hoping then that October would be the largest month for posts but checked and there's no way March will be beat as there were 66 for that month. But there will 64 posts for October and that's okay as the average from April to September was just 54, so there will probably be about 630 for the year and the days of having 800+ in a year are a thing of the past.
So Hina's sixth single 'Tteka" was released three days ago and you may be wondering how the sales have been. Of course it'll be #1 on the charts this week but even Hina can't escape the lower sales for singles these days like every other J-Pop group. After three days the total is at 385,000 copies sold and usually 90% of sales happen in the first three days. So that would mean they're on pace to sell about 425,000 copies of the single, good but a decrease from their May single which sold 486,000 copies in it's first week and 553,000 to date. Have noticed Hina's singles do have some staying power so it should go over 500 K in sales but it'll still be their lowest selling single. The title track is decent but the rest of the songs are just so-so, all are good but no stand out tracks. Lot of other fans think that way about the single too, doesn't seem to be that much difference these days in '46' songs and maybe it's time to bring in some different writers.
That wasn't really a knock on the single's songs but J-Pop is in a bit of a rut right now. No new promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game today but in December will be having a few posts for all of 2021's pics for the game. What I'm going to be featuring more of in future posts are pics for the group's 'HinaKoi' game, it's similar to the 'NogiKoi' game plus I think Hina has two other web games, J-Pop these days isn't all about the music. Some member pics from the 'HinaKoi' home page.
Fourth pic known was of
Ayaka, on Tuesday which is November 2nd she'll be celebrating her 23rd birthday and really thought she was a year older. Doubt if there will be a Hina post that day so here's a few older pics for the occasion.
Also will be working on having more Hina group cards in these posts but they don't have nearly as many as Nogi does. Have eight pics each for a pair of members, first of is Miyata who seldom has pics and following her is group captain Kumi whose cards were for July's 'W-Keyaki Fes'.
Seems as there's been a Hina post about every five days recently, as busy as they are you can run out of new or at least interesting pics for a post. Two mag spreads for today and there's many more coming out next week, first set features
Mirei as the cover girl for the November 10th
Weekly Shonen Sunday.
This final batch may be Hina's largest mag spread to date as there's 29 pics and is from the December issue of BLT. Featured in the magazine is Konoka, Miho, Hina and Akari. The fifth member is the center for the 'Tteka" center who is Miku and she looks so fabulous these days, am holding on to Miku's new Platinum Flash spread for the next group post which should be in about a week. Bottom pics are bonus ones from the photo shoot.
Was just thinking one reason for singles selling less is that groups are appearing on more music shows as there's fewer concerts. So it's really easy to get tired of the main song before it comes out as you may have seen it on TV ten or more times. So will skip having a music video and instead once again have the link to Hina's YT channel, they do have some interesting things to view there:
YT Channel
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