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Friday, May 20, 2022

Rika Izumi: Few recent exquisite smatterings....

 


 Rika is still a popular woman here but her posts don't get nearly as many views as they once did and not many others can say that. It's easy to understand why as it appears she's 'retired' from gravure modeling though has never come out and said that. But as I've said often her regular modeling pics are just so darn terrific and also very classy though will admit I also miss her more skimpy pics. Then again Rika wasn't a long time gravure model, mainly just from late 2016 to early 2018 and most of the spreads were for her sweltering 2017 photobook "Rika". So not having gravure pics hasn't made me less of a fan and Rika will be way up there when the second 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list is done soon. Not sure where she'll end up, anywhere from third to seventh which is quite impressive.



 What's also impressive is that this will make six years in a row Rika has appeared on the yearly faves list, she just needs one more post to qualify. First time on the list was in 2017 when she finished in the third position, in the four years since her spots have been fourth, sixth, fifth and second. So that means if the pattern continues her position this year should be first or seventh but in all honesty don't think being #1 is going to happen, however would hate to see her drop from second last year to seventh. This is Rika's 76th post and it takes a long time for an actress/model's posts to accumulate, it's so rare for one to hit a hundred posts and at this pace it'll be about two more years. By that time she'll be close to the age of 36, on October 11th of this year she'll be hitting the age of 34.



 Brought up Rika's name in a post yesterday and thought she's deserving of one as it's been a while but in reality it hasn't been as her last post was just five weeks ago. "Shouijiki Fudousan" is the title of her current drama, not a large role but she's been getting more screen time as the series goes on. At the beginning of the month did recap the first two episodes and kind of forgot about the show. But just viewed the third episode and will get to the fourth later on today so promise to have the recaps for them next week. This has been one enjoyable show, she plays the role of Minami who works as a loan officer in a bank. Some screenshots from the first three shows and what a pairing in that middle pic!!!!












 Those bottom five are from the third episode. So while we all miss Rika's gravure pics for years have said how she doesn't need to do them these days and in my eyes her classy regular modeling pics are often as good if not better than the ones you see from Idols! The Spring time is a busy period for her modeling and have close to fifty new pics of them for today. Am also holding back some other tidbits as I'd like to have her next post on June 1st. So have three batches of new modeling pics and this first set is for the Apuweiser Spring collection.















 Second set of newish modeling pics are from Mercury Duo.











 Will break up these sets of modeling pics with this spread from the June issue of Oggi, am holding back Rika's site pics for that next post.







 When someone like Rika has posts that go back close to five years sure many long time viewers have forgotten about things. Or if you're a newer viewer you may not have seen posts done so long ago. So like to have an encore on occasion with older things such as this spread from the March 30th issue of Young Jump. Her first photobook came out two weeks later but this didn't feature outtake pics.











 Have noticed I often end off Rika's posts from the last year with pics from the Stola site, think it's because to me they're her top modeling pics. So will end off this post with those pics which are from their Summer collection and have even more of them which I'm holding back. Rika has another drama that begins on June 19th, it's titled "Me no Kabe" and it appears to be an intense series. There hasn't been a decent new video for a while so will skip having one for today.
























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