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Tuesday, November 2, 2021

Hinatazaka46: Just the third ever quintessential post for Shiho Kato....

 


 'Tteka" is the title of Hina's sixth single that was released on October 27th which was six days ago. Currently it's sold 415,000+ copies to date so it'll probably end up at 425,000+ for it's first week, it'll be #1 on the charts but what a decrease from the last single. That was titled "Kimi Shika Katan" which came out at the end of May. Shiho was the center for that song and first week sales were 486,000 so that's a drop of 60,000, appears the days of J-Pop singles selling way over 500,000 in a week are almost over. Nogi's singles still sell over that amount but they've seen the biggest % loss of any group. Hard to say why Hina's new single saw such a decrease, they're so popular plus it's s solid tune, not their best but I like. Have noticed Hina's singles stay on the charts longer than most groups so the total sold could still end up at around 550,000 copies sold.



 As the title says this is just Shiho's third post and am also surprised at how few group posts she's been in. Seemed like there was always many things to post about her, wonder if I held back some pics for a solo post and never got around to it, promise to have at least one more post before the year is up and it should be two. In exactly three months Shiho will be turning 24 and thought she was a year older, she looks it plus has always seemed to be Hina's most mature member, luckily we haven't heard any graduation rumors about her or other members. They seem to be such good friends and quite close knit, wouldn't be shocked if most members are there at least another 3-4 years. 



 For some reason thought I had done a 'pairs post' for Shiho and her best Hina mate. To my surprise there hasn't been one so that'll be changing this month, the duo will be the cover girls for the next issue of Weekly Shonen so may do that post when it comes out, top two pics are promo ones for the spread.





 Not many Shiho pics for Halloween but....





.... there are for X-Mas so will have a solo post right around the holiday. Hina will be doing a pair of Christmas concerts on December 24th and 25th, their shows are so entertaining and still can't believe they haven't released a concert DVD.






 Four new superb promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game. So this has me thinking there could be four posts for Shiho the last two months of 2021, one will feature all the promo pics for the game, hopefully two more posts in his vein plus that 'pairs post'.





 Some recent pics from the Hina group blog, they do an excellent job with posting pics.















 Few older Hina cards from earlier this year. There's been two member photobook books this year, was hoping Shiho would have had the second PB bunt that wasn't the case though that second book was a massive seller so it's understandable, let's hope for a book on her February 2nd birthday.











 Shiho is a model for the CanCam magazine but am going to hold back her new spread and site pics so we can have another post in about two weeks. This batch are promo pics for another web game called 'HinaKoi', many more of these pics will be coming up.













 Hina has been so busy this year but surprised we haven't seen them at any events, not sure if they've been at any save for the pair of 'Tokyo Girls Collection' shows. Pics here are from the September 5, 2020 TGC show and Shiho was taking a stroll on the DASADA stage which is Hina's clothing line and also the title of their second drama.











 Will end off with this terrific and huge spread, it's from the December issue of Entame and for the second time Shiho was their cover girl. Will skip having a video, Hina does have so many of them but very few are solo ones for a member so here's the link to their channel: Hina's YT channel



















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