Akari Suda: Her slightly early.... Happy 31st Birthday post!!!!

 

 Three days early to be exact as #31 takes place on October 31st which is next Monday. But almost always take the final day of the month off which will be happening, could have waited until Sunday but don't expect anything new to be happening. Akari's last post was a month ago and featured some pics from her SKE graduation concert that took place on September 24th. That may have occurred too early as she's still with the group and has been promoting their latest single "Zettai Inspiration" which was released on October 5th. Sales aren't like they once were but at 225,000+ copies sold in it's first week it did outsell the groups previous three singles.

 So Akari has been appearing on shows to promote it and also at a few concerts. On October 25th her final show at the SKE Theater was held but that's still not her official graduation! That's supposed to be taking place on November 1st at a fan greeting session, there will be an event after but unsure if there will also be a concert. So won't discuss the graduation too much today and will wait for the dust to settle, perhaps in two weeks will do a graduation post so I can have all of the details straight and hopefully a few videos of her final event will be released.

 Akari's last post done five weeks ago has been her most popular one in three years, she's always had a solid core of fans here but has never become a 'Star' and at 31 in age time is running out! But she's more than a star in my eyes 😍 as she did finish in the seventh position on my 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list. Plus she'll be on this year's faves list, the only other time she qualified with six posts was in 2018 and she was in the second spot! Don't know where Akari will end up this year, top ten for sure but the competition this year is brutal! Not as many of my faves were eligible, six posts are needed, but the quality is at an all time high. The countdown won't begin until the last week of November so have time to think the positions and not sure if that's a good thing or not....

 This should be a super duper post even though there's been zero mag spreads, events or modeling pics since her last post but do have many new pics or ones that had never been seen before. Such as some older birthday pics, of course none are new and will have this year's in her next post.

 Also have some brand new Akari graduation cards, do have more of them and also expect more to be coming out soon. Though the cards are all new she's gone a bit 'retro' as the pics feature her dressed as she did for some older SKE singles.

 Have mentioned in everyone of her posts how Akari's IG pics are the best of any Idol, actually should say the top ones from anyone I post about! Still undecided whether there will be a 'greatest pics' post for her best ones of the year, will mull that over for a while. So this batch here covers the period from September 25th until October 17th, will have plenty more in her next post.

 So of course her October 31st birthday also happens to be the day Halloween falls on. Not a huge amount of pics from the past but do have a few, bottom four are from the 2017 T-Spook show.

 There have been a few mag spreads the last two months but not nearly enough as not many Idol's spreads have topped Akari's over the last decade. Hoping there may be a couple coming up for her graduation but not holding my breath. Two posts ago did have this superb spread from the October issue of Bubka though the spread itself was only only three pages. That's okay as her outtake pics, such as these, top almost anyone else's regular spreads!

 Mentioned that spread again for its so hard to believe Akari has never had a video of any of her magazine photo shoots! She's probably had fifty spreads over the years, most SKE members have had videos from their photo shoots so why not her? But she did post a 35 second video on her IG page for the above magazine, it's not on YT but did take some screenshots of it and WOW(!), what I wouldn't give to see her do a gravure video.... whewwww....

 We've hit the end and will have some overly alluring pcs which many have seen but hopefully they're new for some potential new fans. So will try to be back in two weeks with a post to wrap up all of Akari's graduation activities, then she should have a post a few weeks after that for her position on this year's faves list and my prediction will be she'll finish seventh. Since I did that last post a few videos have been released for Akari's September 24th graduation show, have one of them after the pics. Too many of my fave SKE members have departed but they still put on such fun shows.