Keyakizaka46: Their awe-inspiring twelfth post for 2022....

 

 Seems that total should be so much higher than twelve. Oh well, another day and another bit of sad news for long time fans if you haven't already heard. Which is that the team captain here at the top Yuuka two days ago announced her graduation and will say I was surprised about that. She is Keya's oldest current member but still thought she would stick it out for much longer, say at least another year. That's not gong to happen as Yuuka's departure will be at the end of November when she turns 27 in age. This news just came out two days ago so sure we'll be hearing more, a real nice sendoff for the fans would be her second photobook..

 That'll leave just five first generation members with Keya and it's getting to be difficult to remain a fan of the '46' groups these days. Rina is the vice-captain and she'll probably be promoted, kind of odd she just had her second ever post ten days ago. As usual have a little bit of many things for today and still can't understand why this is only their twelfth post of the year though there's been more solo ones than past years. At the beginning of each month the members all post a photo with a short message, forgot to have these in the last group post as these are for August.

 Back in July Keya had to cancel their two 'W-Keyaki Fes' concerts because a dozen members had caught the virus. They did make those shows up last weekend and do have the second show but have only skimmed through it. That second show featured the graduations of Aoi and Rika, few pics from that second day along with the set list.

 No new pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game but as you can see above they'll have some pics for the festival coming out soon. If you're starting to nod off already perhaps this will snap you awake... there will be a quiz to name all of the members in order!!!!

 A member who wasn't at the 'W-Keyaki Fes' concerts was Yumiko and have no idea why, here's some recent blog pics from her.

 Rena's first photobook was released two days ago but won't know what the sales were until the end of next week. Just did a solo post for her a few days ago, will try to have another in about two weeks. Yui's second book will be coming out on October 4th and she's had five posts since July 1st. So going to hold back on them for three weeks as she has an excellent shot at being #2 on the all time fave's list. Here's two more advance pics for the book but no others have come out the last five days.

 Not sure what kind of drink that is. There's been such a decrease in mag spreads for the three '46' groups this year but have a pair of them for today. This first one though is a set I had overlooked which is a real oldie featuring Kira from Flash and their 'Best of Spring 2021' edition.

 Brand new set here from the Summer edition of Platinum Flash. It features Rei and two days ago it was announced she tested positive again but these days it's like catching a 24 hour bug...

 Don't know if it's true but to me think Rei has had more spreads than any other member this year. One more set of pics with her which are these Keya cards from earlier this year.

 Usually end off with a mini recap of Keya's 'Soko' variety show that airs Sunday nights. Am starting to fall behind so will have to skip a few of the episodes that aired after this show which was #89. It aired on July 10th and in a way it was a part two of an earlier show. A month before this there was a special episode called 'Member Rankings' which proved to be popular so a second edition with that theme aired. Both shows were quite interesting and entertaining but my complaint was that the members didn't rank enough things, only three in 24 minutes?

 Never go into too many details with these mini recaps, there's fifty screenshots which follow the action in order so you can view them to see exactly what took place. First category was 'Who is Keya's most fashionable member?', I would have voted for Yui who in the last show was selected as the group's best dancer. But she just finished second as Mizuho was #1 by a large margin, at one time she looked a bit 'too manly' to me but she's really become so much more attractive these past two years. Second ranking was for who is the group's most generous member and seems all could have won it! Grand winner for that was Karin who doesn't say enough on these shows, seems she has to be forced to speak up and she edged out Yumiko in this ranking. The final category was one where the votes were shown but not what the ranking was as the members had to guess at it. Will leave you in suspense on what the category was though of course the answer is right below but Hikari was the winner.