Nao's 'Top Twenty of All Time Faves' list #2.... Position #7, the idyllic and captivating Akari Suda!

 

Links to the previous positions

#20, Nashiko .... #19, Kazusa .... #18, Kii(e) .... #17, Nene

#16, Nanase .... #15, Yuika .... #14, Kyoko .... #13, Miona

#12, Mai .... #11, Maimi .... #10, Minami .... #9, Saki

#8, Rika

 Will have three more posts for the countdown this week, number's five and four at the end of the week but not sure when #6 will be done but probably on Tuesday. In the last position post was saying how strong this list is and there truly isn't that much of a difference between third and eighth. If you asked me a year or so ago if Akari would have made the list would have said she had no chance! Not that I didn't want to see it happen as I've been kind of head over heels for her since about 2015. But she had such a quiet stretch for most of 2020 and the first half of 2021, think much of the blame lies with how inactive SKE was. But this is now her eleventh post in the last year and hope to have three more before 2022 ends, if this onslaught of posts began earlier she just may have been number one!!!!

 Akari has that certain aura about her which is hard to explain and perhaps that's for the better. Of all twenty on this fave's list in my eyes she may be the easiest woman to get along with and also perhaps the most fun gal of them all. Compared to gravure models and many other Idols Akari isn't nearly as bodacious but I can only think of a small handful who are more alluring and sexy, bet she's also one of the more interesting woman though #12 may be tops in that category. So while not a lot of posts compared to others they've usually been much larger. Not many can top her accomplishments to date as in 2018 she ws#2 on the yearly faves list and has an excellent chance to be in this year's top five. She also has my fifth fave photobook of all time and if there was ever a list of my all time hottest Idols she'd rank around fourth so you can understand why she has such a high position, if things had worked out better it could have been six spots higher!!!!

 Gulp, never see someone like that at my local teashop, gulp again! Keep saying I want to make these posts medium sized and it hasn't worked out once yet. Would like to do that for today for as you know Akari is graduating from SKE at the end of the month and would like to do a post shortly after that. Plus she's turning 31 on October 31st and would like to have yet another post then. But she's been so busy as of late as this is her sixth post in ten weeks so probably no need to worry about anything. For today have the usual potpourri of things, some old, some new and a few things in between, to me her posts this year have been the most varied of anyone. As mentioned many times no one tops Akari at posting IG pics, think come January may do a post or two for her best 2022 pics. This batch here went from August 17th to the 25th, there's no pics today from the last week as I'm holding on to them for that next post.

 Akari's first and only photobook came out a little over four years, sadly we won't be seeing one for her graduation. That's because that book was a disappointment as far as sales go, 30,000 books were printed but it only sold a little over half that. Hard to understand why as that was one of the top books of all time though '48' group books only sell a fraction of what the books from '46' members sell. No recent events but there was a really terrific one at the end of June and hope we see her at more of them. Here's a set of pics that had never been posted from September 20, 2018 which was an SKE group affair. They were promoting 'Tourism Expo Japan 2018' and they were chosen to be the ambassadors for the Aichi region as the group does hail from Nagoya.

 Speaking of SKE her last single with them was supposed to be released on September 21st. However on August 15th it was announced it was being pushed back to October 5th because of production problems. Isn't that hard to believe, five weeks wasn't enough time to fix what problems they may have had with the packaging or whatever, there's still no title for the single. What's also a bit odd is that I can't get their tune "Oki Doki" out of my mind the last few days, what a catchy single! No new mag spreads for today but there should be in that next post, I can remember the days where she and SKE used to have a few spreads a month. But these posts all include old pics to show why someone has been such a long time fave, this fabulous set is from the April 2016 issue of Girls!.

 That next pot will hopefully have the October issue of Bubka as Akari is their back cover girl. But to me and many others her best pics from magazines are the outtake ones. Have posted four of these from that upcoming issue but six are brand new, how about that bottom one....

 You may find it hard to believe but have been holding on these cards for at least three years(!) and was just waiting for the right time to post them. Today is as good as any and this set is from volume three of the 'AKB Overseas Travel Guide' which was released in March 2014. Have posted a few other sets for AKB, SKE, and NMB members, these pics to me are so super duper and at the time Akari would have been 22 in age.

 We've hit the end, even with ninety or so pics it did feel like a medium sized post. Akari is semi popular here, seems she has a solid core of fans but just can't take that next step up to be one of the more popular gals and one reason is the lack of posts up until a year ago. Will end off with some overly alluring pics and on the hotness level you don't need all five fingers on a hand to count how many women are more seductive than her! Shame there were problems with the new SKE single as I would have liked to end off with that video. There's no recent Akari videos either but have one after the pics I had never seen before. It's from 2020 and the 'Win Ticket' variety show where the challenge was to get the most views for this smartphone show, if you've never seen her take a bath.... whew....