Hinako Kitano: Making a late run to be this year's #1!!!!

 

 Been working hard on two posts for today, as you can see this one I was able to finish. The other one could go either way way though, will really try to have it later on but it may be better to wait a day or two. What a year this has been for Hinako whose previous high in solo posts was seven which happened last year. This is her 16th(!) so far for 2022 and that puts her in a tie for third place, the top two both have twenty or more. Guess that proves that leaving Nogi and signing with a different agency was the best idea of the year and she's been the busiest graduate these past five months.

 So as the title says is Hinako making a late bid to be this year's number one fave? She is but just don't think shell have enough time to topple the current #1 who will have a post tomorrow. However she is moving up, for now would place her in the fourth position though think when I start looking at everyone's spots she just may finish second and the more I think about why not? Hinako has had a better year than the current #3 and though the fave in second has ten more posts will that be enough to keep her there?

 That I don't know and this year will be the most challenging list that's ever been done which is why I'm looking forward to it. Not a large post but no sense letting some of these pics get dated, Hinako's last post was done just eight days ago so of course there haven't been many IG pics.

 Am not going to recap the final four episodes of Hinako's first drama "Shonen Abyss" though I did watch all of it save for the final show. She played the character of Nagi who was this extremely odd Idol but then again as odd as she was the other characters were more out to lunch! There was way too much underage sex, bullying, suicidal talk and various other semi-strange happenings, may sound interesting reading what the series was about but viewing it was a different story. 

 Hinako did do a lot of interviews for the drama and the final one she did was with the Cinema Life site, have the link to it. As mentioned she did an okay job in the series and you have to start somewhere, she is in another drama but don't know if it'll be subbed: Cinema Life site

 One new yet very small mag spread from the November issue of Car Top(?!).

 Seeing as how that was a mini spread let's have a larger one that's from the March 1st issue of Flash. It was promoting Hinako's second photobook that was released in February. At first I was just a bit lukewarm on it and as strange as it sounds it's because the book was too perfect!!!! However my feelings have changed over the months and would say it's in a battle to be my #1 book of the year.

 Of course in two days it's a semi-ghoulish holiday and have some pics from the past to celebrate it, some were in prior year's posts but many are brand new for here.

 Back in August Hinako became a model for the Vannie U clothing site and had some superb pics for their Autumn collection. In her last post had some new pics for their Winter collection, have more of them for today though not much variety but many more will be coming out soon.

 When Hinako left Nogi at the end of April it had been three months since she had attended one of those large fashion shows. What a wise decision it was as today she attended her third show in five months! It was the Winter 'Sapporo Collection' show and will have two set of pics from it to end the show off. This first batch is small but there were a lot of models there which meant the strolls on the catwalk weren't too long, these are from the AEDDY stage.

 She took three strolls and don't think any other model did that. Many more pics for those two other strolls, first set is from the Kuu stage while the others are for Royal Party and didn't Hinako look so fabulous even in Winter clothing?! No videos from the show as it's not one of the major ones but it just took place today so hopefully there will be one in the future. But after the pics have a video with her best Nogi mate from September 23rd and she's a bit overdue for a post.