Hinatazaka46: A little(semi-huge) bit of this and that for 2022 #22....

 

 Not as large of a post as usual but hoping by doing this the posts will soon be coming fast and furious! Hina's eighth single comes out in six days and really thought this would be a busy month for them. It has been to an extent but it appears the upcoming weeks will be much busier. Have the ingredients for five solo posts and just can't finish any of them but all should be done in a few weeks with hopefully one for Kyoko this weekend. At the top is of course Akari and for so long she was Hina's busiest member this year. That seemed to stop once I did her first solo post(!) at the end of July but she will have her second very soon. For the first day of a month like to start off with a superb photobook and will have her PB on November 1st, know all will truly enjoy it. The book doesn't have as many gravure pics as most books but in a way that's a good thing, seems like the past few years the '46' members are having a contest on who can dress the most skimpy! 

 In quite a surprise it was announced yesterday Miku would have the group' next photobook! It won't be coming out until December 20th and that's actually a smart release date as it'll make for an excellent Christmas present! Kind of torn on her having a book, what's attracted me to Miku is her conservative image and would have been perfectly happy not seeing her in swimsuit and lingerie pics.... though then again do think she looks so super duper!

 Who I wanted to see with a book is Suzuka but have a feeling that may never happen. Least to me she's become so ultra dazzling and like many others doesn't need to dress skimpy to get my attention. She's one of the members who I'm close to finishing a solo post for so won't have any of her new pics for today as they'll be saved for that solo post.

 Hmmm, forgot about Halloween coming up so think I'll try to have a post on that date with some ghoulish pics. Hina has been on tour since the beginning of September and it'll be wrapping up very soon. That's one reason there haven't been as many new pics lately and especially one from the group blog, do have a few here for Konoka. Back in February did a 'Pairs Post' with her and Suzuka, that has been one very popular post so guess I need to work on a second one for them.

 Some brand new promo pics for the group's 'Mysterious Library' game though there has been a shortage of them lately for the 'Uni's on Air' game. That's because they're celebrating their third anniversary and back when the game began Keya was the only group featured in the game and that's why they've had 90% of the new pics.

 Guess those above pics could be considered ones for Halloween. One other game Hina has is called 'Hina Koi', have some promo pics for it featuring Akari and Hinano.

 One person who I seldom have pics for is Nao, she's a member who I neither like nor dislike but had always thought she was the center on too many singles. She's the cover girl for the November 2nd issue of Weekly Shonen and think we'll be seeing many more spreads in the next few weeks.

 One more spread that's from the October 27th issue of Young Jump which features the third generation members Marie and Mikuni, bottom five pics are from the photo shoot.

 What I haven't had for about two months is a mini recap of the group's 'Aimashou' variety show. For so long the members were wearing face guards on the show and how I hate those for they cover up their faces too much. But they didn't wear them in this show nor will they be in the next one so will recap both which are part's one and two with a special theme. This is show #179 and it aired on October 2nd. Bit of a long title for these special shows which is 'Classes I wanted to hold the most in this World'. What that means is a member would be teaching the others about a subject they're really interested in and this first segment was was truly interesting. So much will be going to the library later to see if they have any volumes of the manga!!!! Yuka led this class and to me she's Hina's most intelligent and interesting member, she seemingly knows everything about the Detective Conan series.

 That started out in 1994 and to date the mangas have sold 250 million copies! Have seen a few of the drama specials but the manga looks much more interesting, there's also been an anime. The screenshots below go in order of the action and won't discuss too much about Conan as I'll let them do the explaining. Most members have read at least part of the series save for Kyoko who to me hass never seemed to be a fan of anime or mangas. Next up to teach the class was Sarina and back in April she passed some sort of class in Elegant Manners, by the certificate it seems the association is called JADP. She taught her fellow members some rules on etiquette such as how to fold your napkins at a restaurant plus where everyone should be seated, only one member got that seating question correct! By this time there were only three minutes left for Marie's lesson which was for those who had trouble sleeping at night and that deserved to be a bit longer. So this was part one and just half the members were there, sure the other half will be on part two and will have that recap in the next group post. Have posted two of the videos from the upcoming 'Midnight' single, after the screenshots is a third PV from it and the song is titled "Sonota Ozei Type".