Hinatazaka46: A little bit of this and that for 2022 #23....

 

 Those are a pair of mighty fine pics above which are from Miku's first photobook that will be coming out on December 20th. Been trying to do a post for her the last few weeks but it just hasn't worked out, sure you will be seeing at least two by the end of the year and the question is will one be for her making this year's faves list? Should have at least two other solo posts this month but it has been a much slower time lately than I imagined it would be. Hina released their eighth single last week and while there are many new pics for today not nearly the huge total I was expecting. 

 In it's first week out the 'Midnight' single sold a little over 428,000 copies. Hina's in a semi rut as of late, not a bad one but they just can't increase their sales even though the songs on this single are all quite good. Single #7 sold 442,000 copies in it's first week, #6 sold 419,000 so you can see there hasn't been much of a change and the center was different for each single.

 November 2nd means two faves of mine celebrate a birthday and hope to have a post for the other shortly after this. As far as Hina goes Ayaka turned 24 today and she's like a few other members where it's close to impossible to do a solo post for. She only had a few recent blog pics but do have four birthday promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game, the bottom four are from last year. Keya has about six November birthdays, she's the only Hina member who has one this month.

 For the second time this year the 'Uni's on Air' game has a 'Precious Pair' theme which they also had in August. Will do two sets of them for today with the first four belonging to the Sasaki's, Kumi and Mirei. The other four pics feature Hina and Shiho who will have another solo post very soon.

 Another game Hina also has promo pics for is 'Mysterious Library', these came out about two weeks ago and hope they weren't in the last group post.

 Oooops. almost forgot to include more Ayaka pics which are for the group's 'Hina Koi' game.

 In each issue of Friday the group has a two page spread called 'Hina-Satsu', these are from the magazine's four October issues working back from newest to oldest.

 Just one solo spread for today though do have another two which I'm saving for solo posts. This set features Mirei as the cover girl for the November 10th issue of Weekly Shonen Sunday.

 Will end off with a mini recap for the group's 'Aimashou' variety show, this was #180 that aired on October 9th. It was just a so-so episode but it's part two of a theme show so may as well post it, part one was much better and the last two episodes look much better also. Title of these last two shows was 'Classes I wanted to teach the most in the world', members would get up in front of the other gals and instruct them on certain activities which they're 'semi-pros' at. Personally thought the last show was much more interesting, especially Sarina's class and that last show ended with Marie teaching something she's an 'expert' at but to me it seemed like it was cut off too early.

 It was as she continued that class in this show and she did Bomb in front of the other members. Marie was teaching her mates the best way to get a good night's sleep and kind of think she may have been joking around to an extent. She likes to listen to loud rap music before turning in and the other members shook their heads at that suggestion, some of the food suggestions seemed to make a bit more sense. The screenshots go in order of the action and it's a wise idea to follow them to see exactly what took place. Up next was Suzuka who did a better job, her 'class' was about driving. She just got her license in April and confessed she's had to change her attitude about driving as she was so impatient with other cars on the road when she sat in the passenger seat. But now that Suzuka is a driver she's changed her views on other drivers and can understand why they do certain things. Her most interesting part was talking about food at rest areas and what the best kinds were. Also learned that at most stops there's a tea called Genmachai which isn't as tasty as other teas but is free!!!! Last up was Mana who hails from Osaka and tried to teach the members not from there the dialect. For instance people from Osaka aren't as tough as they appear to be and tried to teach them a softer dialect, she was helped out by two others from the area and upon further reflection that was a decent segment. There's a few new CM's that came out yesterday for the CoCo Curry House chain, have on after the pics.