Mina Oba: Her electrifying second 'Blast from the past' post....

 

 Will admit after Mina graduated from SKE back in April of this year didn't think there would be any more posts for this huge fave of mine. In April it had been seventeen months since her previous post so if one can't be done for a graduation when could it happen? But this makes it two posts in nine weeks for her and have they brought a huge smile to my face!!!! So while her next post may not be happening for a while(if ever) nice to know there will be a chance for a few future ones.

 Guess you would have to be a long time visitor to this blog to know how massive of a fave Mina has been of mine. She had so many posts from 2015-18 but things died out after that, not just for her but most of the SKE members who I followed. Have often talked about who my top or hottest J-Pop Idols have been over the years or who has the most sweltering photobook. Yet I've never done any kind of lists for Idols and that's something I will work on. Not immediately as the yearly list will begin soon but perhaps next February which tends to be a slower period. Mina would definitely finish high on most lists, especially for hottest Idol so that's something to look forward to.

Mina has made the yearly faves list twice but hasn't had enough posts to qualify for the last four years. Do prefer slightly taller women but it seems I do a lot of posts for shorter gals and not many are shorter than her height of 150 cm! Usually begin off posts with some recent IG pics for whoever but Mina posts so few of them, just a handful since her April graduation and in that month she hit the age of thirty. So while it's a bit too early why not start off with some older SKE cards for X-Mas as I doubt there will be another post for her this year.

 

 Akari was Mina's best mate in SKE and what a shame a 'pairs post' could never be done for them, fairly positive there was never any mag spreads featuring just the two of them which is extremely odd. So have some pics of the dynamic duo together and many are brand new for here, especially the top one which is quite ancient....

 Mina did announce in May she was leaving the entertainment business but thankfully that didn't take place, that 'retirement' lasted all of two months! On September 9th she released a photo essay book that looked back on her SKE career and a few various other personal subjects. Mina has held at least three events for the book and this set was from early October, besides writing some essays there were some sparkling new photos in the book.

 Mina has had a fair amount of gravure videos over the years and now has her first segment on a DVD which will be at the bottom of the post.

 It's been exactly two years since her second and probably final photobook was released. Have some pics from it here and almost all had never been posted before.

 Way too small magazine spread from the October issue of EX-Taishu.

 The WPB magazine put out that DVD Mina is featured, there's also a few others on it and Mina's segment lasts for 21+ breathtaking minutes. As mentioned the video is at the bottom and to promote the DVD was this terrific spread from the November 21st issue of WPB, hope we'll see many more in the future....