Kyoko Saito: A few recent tidbits.....

 

 This is just her 22nd solo post since October 2018 and seems like it should be many more than that. May not look it but in a little over six months Kyoko will be hitting the age of 25. Am looking at the list of Hina members and by the end of the year eight will be 24 years or older while five others will be aged 22 or 23. Hate to bring it up but it's going to happen sometime in the future when we're going to start seeing some graduations. Hina has only had two to date and they were many years ago so to me one of their biggest pluses has been their stability. But in my humble opinion(!) don't think we're going to see members fleeing like they have been in Nogi and Keya. So while Hina has many popular members don't think they have a true superstar which leads us to their other big plus. That's of all the members get an opportunity in the spotlight whether it's in magazines, modeling pics, segments on their variety show and dramas,etc. so all of the members are getting a chance. That's been far from the case for Nogi and Keya which is why the popularity of the groups has been declining.

 So who would be the first to main member to depart from Keya? Hope it's not true but kind of get the feeling it may be Kyoko who does a lot of work outside of the group. Then again she and the other members seem like smart women and bet they've noticed how many Idols fall flat on their faces after leaving their groups. One other note is are the members in Hina now so much popular than the ones from Nogi? Last year there were two Hina photobooks which sold about 320,000 copies. In that stretch there's been six Nogi graduation photobooks which haven't reached 300,000 total sales yet. There's another Hina book coming out next week which already has 125,000 copies printed!

 Bit of a long intro as this is not the biggest of posts but hate go days without a regular one. But the Spring 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show will be held on March 21st, sure Kyoko and at least seven other members will be there so there should be plenty of solo and group posts coming up around then. Hopefully some Keya gals will be there too as it's been eons since my top two members have had a post. Kyoko has finally become such a popular woman here, she was #1 last year as far as how many views her posts received. Plus she currently has two of the most viewed posts for the past month so really wish I could do so many more for her.

 Also wish I could do more solo posts for others but perhaps Hina stepped back a bit for the two recent Nogi photobooks and graduations. Been trying to have a post for the last month for her mate but that's been a flop but sure it can be finished soon enough.

 On to some recent things and here's the link to a new Sony Insurance CM. Think four other Hina members have also done videos for the company, have noticed in them that none of the members are in the driver's seat and wonder if any have a license? Sony CM

 Some recent pics from the Hina blog and this may be the last batch of them. That's because nine days ago Kyoko opened her own Instagram page and would think she'll be uploading most of her pics to that. Bottom ones are from the February 14th 'Showroom', will have the video at the end.

 More semi-Valentine's pics which are promo ones for the 'Uni's on Air' web game.

 The only thing Hina doesn't do as well as Nogi is having monthly group cards save for the above ones. They always have cards for singles, tours and special events but no regular series. Have a batch here from 2020 that had never been posted before.

 One main reason for this post, besides the fact Kyoko is a massive fave of mine, is because in her last post forgot to include this spread. She's the cover girl for the January 20th issue of Weekly Shonen Champion and bet she's had that honor about eight times for that magazine. Following this pics is the video of Kyoko hosting the February 14th 'Showroom'. As I've mentioned before can never understand why the audio is so low for this show, it's the same way too for Nogi and Keya.