Akari Suda: Sigh, her last post as an SKE member but of course....

 

 .... not her final post ever here, don't think she's an Idol who is going to disappear that quickly. Been feeling a bit under the weather as I moaned about yesterday so it'd be a perfect time for many photobooks as those posts aren't too difficult to write up. So figures this last month has been the slowest stretch all year for digital books and have zero large ones to post. Do have a three regular books but will be spacing them out with the first tremendous one coming up on December 1st.

 No graduation book for Akari and that's a shame. Biggest reason for that is because her 2018 book sold so poorly and that still baffles me as it's one of the top Idol books of all time. So while the title says final SKE post Akari's graduation took place ten days ago and it was stretched out a bit, at first it was going to take place on September 24th. But then SKE's single was pushed back by a couple of weeks so the official date for those who are keeping track was November 1st. As far as posts go this has been Akari's busiest year ever as this is her eleventh, I'll be happy if I can do half that amount in future years. In two weeks the countdown for this year's faves list will begin, not sure of any position as of now but am thinking she'll end up in the seventh spot which to me is an achievement and that's the position she finished in on the all time faves list.

 Akari's last post was done two weeks ago for her 31st birthday so you wouldn't think there would be a large amount of things but bet there's over fifty new pics in this post. Such as these graduation cards which will be her final ones ever, did have some in that last post and they feature her dressed in the uniforms of some older SKE singles.

 Can't have an Akari post without many new IG pics, no one posts more of them plus all the pics are usually superb. Will do some sort of post for her top 2022 IG pics, that wouldn't be until January and how can I figure out which were the best?!

 Bottom four above were from her 31st birthday. In a surprise may be able to do a post next week for her closest SKE mate and can't believe they never had a gravure spread together. 

 Have to admit I'm getting tired of having these 'final' posts for Idols who have graduated, will have another one very soon and when will it end? Of course all Idols eventually leave their groups but why have so many of my all time faves left this year? It's not the end of the world as they have remained busy and have been doing many posts for them. But when a lot do leave it means I don't follow that group as closely save for Keya. So Akari had three farewell concerts, the first was on September 24th, the second October 25th and the final one was held on her graduation day of November 1st. The concert took place at the SKE Theater in Nagoya and do have some pics from the show here, maybe I'll add in a video too at the end. Top pic is of her taking down her wall picture at the theater which is a tradition for the '48' groups.

 Bottom pic was from a meet and greet session held earlier on November 1st. Here's a set of some fine looking pics which are from a QJ Web interview that came out on October 31st. Not much talk about Akari's future but here's the link to it: QJ Web interview

 Akari has done so many gravure spreads over the last eight years, perhaps fifty so it's been a disappointment that there's been zero videos of any of the photo shoots. But in her last post had some screenshots from a short video she had on her IG page which were from her October Bubka spread, here are the screenshots once again.

 There were enough extra pics from that photo shoot for this spread from Bubka's December issue, Akari looks so darn alluring and hope we do see more gravure spreads in the future. No videos from the graduation concert so after the pics have the PV for SKE's "Souyuutoko Aru yo ne" single that came out in January 2020. Akari was the co-center of her final single with SKE but this song was the only time she was the solo center. EDIT: Grrrr, forget the video as it's blocked by their record company and that really makes a lot of sense....