Keyakizaka46: The 'Happy 23rd birthday to Minami Koike' post....

 

 It's rare when there's two consecutive posts for gals who have the same first name. It's even rarer when I can do a birthday post for a first generation Keya member who hasn't graduated! There's two impending graduations, will have posts for those members coming up soon. When they depart Keya will be left with just nine of it's original 22 members, almost all have left in the last two years. This is a birthday post but also one in the Uni's on Air' series but this time around have much more than those pics promoting the web game.

 This is Minami's seventh solo post but first in a year. Outside of a few members what a slowish year it's been for Keya(Sakura) activities, have a good amount of pics but many are older ones. Minami is a big fave of mine and of so many viewers as her six previous posts have been popular. There's been so many graduations but I don't think Minami will be leaving the group for a while. She doesn't do much outside work but did co-host a radio show for over four years, that gig ended in September.

 Let's get on with things, using Touchpad to write up most of these posts is really doing a number on my wrist. Have a good variety of things, some old and some new but all the pics are superb. First off is this set of Minami cards from the 'W-Keyaki Fes' that took place in July.

 Few recent pics from Keya's 'Diary' group blog. Minami is like most members as she doesn't post too many pics, they need to take some lessons from Hina.

 No new pics for the ultra kawaii Minami's 23rd birthday so have to go back in time. The above fave in the bottom two pics is on a hiatus but will have a post for coming up soon.

 Minami's first and only photobook came out on September 25, 2019 and since then there's only been one new Keya book from a member. On the day it was released there was an event held for it, title of the book is "Seishun no Binzume" and it was a decent seller with 30,000 copies sold.

 In December you'll be seeing a pair of fabulous photobook posts, the 'Nao Year' begins on December 1st which is why I'm waiting. The question is will there also be a tremendous third book? Have Minami's photobook but the scans didn't come out so well so let me see if I can't improve them somehow. These are a few from the book and you can see what I mean by the quality, hopefully I can fix them up.

 As mentioned Minami's last post was this time a year ago. It contained her final solo mag spread to date and she was the cover girl for the December 3rd issue of Weekly Shonen.

 We've hit the end, wish there were more new pics but most of these have never been seen here before as there's only been three Keya group posts this year. This batch of 44 pics are all from 2021 and are Minami's promo ones for the 'Uni's on Air' web game. There's going to be many more of these pics coming up for members, most some posts will have more than just game pics. No decent new videos so will skip having one but there's a good chance there will be another post in this vein next month. These Uni pics go from newest to oldest(January).