Rika Izumi: Has another yet another of her 'To save the day' post....

 

 Second of these 'save the day' posts this week and what a slow stretch it's been which baffles me to an extent. Rika could be called the Queen for saving a day as she's had at least five of these posts in the past, seems when a day may go by without a post she's been my #1 savior! Had wanted to wait a while on doing a post for Rika as she'll be turning 34 on October 11th and wanted to do one right around then. But don't think that'll be a problem as I'm holding back a mag spread along with some modeling pics so don't have any worries about having a birthday post for her.

 Rika finished in the eighth position on the 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list which was impressive but wish she could have been a few spots higher. She would have been if the list was done two years ago, perhaps in the top five but she's fallen into a semi rut since 2020. While her posts are all superb and no one tops her modeling pics there hasn't been nearly as much variety with her activities as there once was. Rika is still popular here but not at the level she once was from 2017-19 but she does have a solid core of fans. This is her 80th overall post and it's hard for an actress/model to hit the mark of 100 posts, she should hit that in 2024 and am wondering if she may be the final one?

 Having a feeling we may never see any more gravure pics which is a shame as even at 34 she does blow away women a decade younger. As mentioned in Rika's last post there will be a second season of "Takane no Hana-san" which will begin on October 2nd. She has the lead role in the show and did recap the entire first season, will also do the second of it gets subbed.

 That's the poster above for the series and two new characters will be added in, the four main ones from season one will also be in this upcoming series. So far there's been no promoting for it and hope there is such as an event which Rika seldom attends these days! To me no woman tops Rika's looks and classiness at them, here's a batch of older event pics. They're from November 25, 2019 and the 24th annual 'Japanese Nails Association' award and she won the award for having the top female nails.

 Most of Rika's posts this year have been mainly for modeling pics and mag spreads, as mentioned there hasn't been as much variety of things as there once was. But this is her ninth post of the year so obviously she's had many pics in those two activities. First off for new modeling pics is this batch for the Apuweiser Autumn collection.

 More Autumn collection pics for Vis and as I've said for at least two years now no one can top her classy modeling pics though of course wouldn't mind seeing her vamp it up on occasion.

 Rika has been a long time model for the Bijin Hyakka magazine. She seldom has pics at their site but is in almost every one of their issues, this batch is from their August edition.

 More from Bijin Hyakka and their September issue, do have her spread for the October magazine but holding on to that for her next post.

 Am also holding on to her regular Oggi modeling pics for that next post but do have her spread for their October issue.

 Been having an older spread in recent posts for those who may have never seen Rika when she was a semi-gravure model but she only did those kinds of pics for about two years. This set is from the April 27, 2017 issue of Young Jump and was promoting her first photobook.

 To me Rika's top modeling pics are for Stola and usually end off with new pics for them which is once again the case for today, am holding back a few of them too for that birthday post. At one time Rika used to have at least one CM a month but it's been a while since she's had any new videos so after the pics have a short promo video for her second photobook that came out in April 2020.