Hinatazaka46: A little(lot) bit of this and that for 2022 #3....

 

 May be a slower week for posts as I've caught a case of the 'Winter Blues', 😧 whatever that means. Could be because it's been so difficult doing posts lately for my bigger faves, thought that may be something that's happened over the years but in many years January has often been one of the best months for posts. Oh well, sure I'll snap out of it soon but least I can always depend on the gals from Hina to brighten my mood and hopefully will have two(three?) more posts for them this week. One will be a solo one while the other will be the second ever 'Hina Pairs Post', it's all set to go but just didn't feel like writing it up.

 Next month Nogi will be having another one of their special '46 Hours TV' show, think it's their fourth one and those in the past have been so entertaining. Hina has more variety shows than the other two '46' groups combined but they've never had any show along those lines and how I'd like to see one of them from the group. Will be ending off the post with some screenshots from their 'Aimashou' show which is the top variety show of any of the three groups. In some other news the two hosts of the show are the comedy duo of Audrey who have both been infected with the virus. Don't think it'll affect any future shows as they often tape 2-3 of them in one day.

 The show at the bottom was the first part of a contest so what I'll try to do then is have another group post in a few days with part two. So will be holding back a large solo spread for that post and the group is so busy shouldn't be too hard to make that another huge post. Let's start off with some recent pics from the Hina blog. They're for Suzuka who just turned 21 last week, but also bring her up because she'll be in that upcoming 'Pairs Post' which her best mate in the bottom two pics.

 As most Hina fans have seen there's been many solo posts the last two months featuring promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game, there's also been many pics in these group posts. Have finally hit the end of that series and this is the last member's pics you'll be seeing but of course there's always new ones coming out. Having the honors for the final set of pics is Hiyori, they go from November to May.

 There's about five members these days who I hold back pics for their solo posts. Hina's captain Kumi just had her first ever solo post eight days ago but think she'll only have one more and will mainly just have her pics in these group posts. Yesterday she celebrated her 26th birthday!

 Now on to a pair of group spreads and as mentioned am holding back one solo spread which is quite superb. This small set is from a special issue called Young Jump Heroine which has three members with two pics each who are Miku, Mei and Akari.

 Some terrific outtake pics from the other mag spread that's from the....

... February issue of Bomb. Once again it features Miku and I don't think any Idol has appeared in as many magazines as she has the last year. That's okay because she really looks so fabulous these days and she's the member I'm trying to have a solo post for this week. Akari is also on this spread along with Hina, she'll be having the next member photobook. Plenty of pics have been coming out for the book so she too will have a solo post coming up soon.

 Team Hinata Subs is the site that subs the group's 'Aimashou' show if you want to view any of the episodes. I've been playing catch up with the shows and have been watching 2-3 of them a week for the past month. Am almost caught up with them and this batch of screenshots is from show #139 that aired on December 19th. Being so close to Christmas figured it'd be a holiday show where they exchanged presents and had some sort of party but was I way off base thinking that! Instead it was part one of a mini contest called 'Meigen 2021' or the second 'Hina's Famous Quotes Awards' ceremony.

 Once again won't give a long recap and let the screenshots describe the action. It follows what took place in order so if you click on the first screenshot you can follow what happened and will have part two of this contest in the next group post. But briefly the hosts Audrey have looked back at the more memorable lines the members have blurted out since the beginning of 2020 and while it didn't make complete sense it was one of the more enjoyable episodes I've viewed. The beginning segment featured some members taking a turn throwing darts to possibly win three million yen(!), none did but all won some high class beef. Then it moved on to the quotes contest and didn't think many really stood out but the segments they were from were actually quite funny. Shiho is often the highlight of these shows but don't think she uttered even five words. I'll get into more details in part two of this contest as I have no clue how it'll end or who will win the grand prize if there is one. Don't think it's ever been posted which is a CM for Lypo C which you view after the pics and has a 'making of' segment.