Nogizaka46: The exhilarating 'Hinako Kitano post' #20....

 

 Whew, do I need to find a Genie in a lamp, one wish is all that will be needed!!!! 😍 This is post #20 which may not seem impressive but it is as only six other Nogi members have more solo posts and hate to say it but hers are the toughest to do though in a way the most enjoyable. This is not the largest of posts as her last one was done just a month ago but there's an excellent reason for wanting to do this today. This is Hinako's sixth post of the year and I truly wanted to see her qualify for this year's faves list, figured this may be the only time it'll happen and Hinako's been so deserving. So this now makes six Nogi members who are eligible for the 2021 fave's list but don't want more than three members to make the list, two are locks so who will be the third to join them? So far 25 have qualified for the list, six posts are needed. Three only need one more post so if the total can get up to 28 being eligible the list may contain twenty instead of the sixteen I was planning on, then I would have a fourth Nogi member.

 Odds are good that I would give that third spot to Hinako. It is a yearly list and not an all time one but sometimes history does come into play. For instance if someone is a bit older or if a fave may never qualify again, every now and again it's nice to reward some huge long time faves. And Hinako is one of them as she may be my #1 Nogi member of all time, do like her the most but wish she had been as busy as some other members but the second generation has sadly been too forgotten about. 

 It's a bit depressing to say but as of today there's only four second generation members left. For a long time thought Hinako was thinking about leaving as she wasn't chosen to be a Senbatsu member for three singles in a row. But she was for their current single and won't be surprised then if she sticks with Nogi for another year, she needs to pick up some outside work before she departs. As of today her good mate Ranze has graduated and she was such a likable member. Have never done a solo post for her but you've seen plenty of things in group posts. For a parting gift she'll have a photobook so next month will have a massive farewell post for her.

 And of course someone else will be departing on December 31st, when will these graduations stop?

 Hinako doesn't post any more at the Nogi blog as she opened her own IG page back in April. She does an okay job with it though in all honesty her blog pics were much better.

 Never seen any cosplaying pics but bet Hinako would be terrific at that. Halloween is in three days and some older pics for it though the set from 2018 had never been posted before.

 Some fine looking recent Nogi group cards and they too are all new for here. That bottom pic above is from Zipper, she was a model for the magazine but they shut down in 2018.

 Lot more new pics than I thought, these are new profile pics from the Nogi site.

 Group spread here from volume 157 of Quick Japan that came out two days ago, a group set but Hinako does have five solo pics.

 Lack of Hinako solo spreads this year but that's been the case for almost every Nogi member. So let's go back a bit in time with this fabulous set from the February 2019 issue of BLT Graph.

 Over the years fourteen current or past Nogi members have had ten or more solo posts. If you didn't count the posts for photobooks then Hinako's posts have the sixth highest average and she does have many fans here. Will be ending off with some perfect pics which have been posted before but who can ever get tired of viewing them?! After the pics is a short video for that Quick Japan spread, watch it now as way too many Nogi videos get deleted.