Nao's top sixteen Faves for 2022: Position #12, the stylish and elegant Rika Izumi

 

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#16, Marie .... #15, Miyu .... #14, Sae .... #13, Yuki

 Rika is a decade older than so many who made this year's faves list but in my eyes she blows so many of them away, actually 99.99% of the women in the world! So this could be classified as both a bad and good post. The last five years she's finished second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth on the list, no one will ever top that that kind of streak. So while the position may not seem too impressive it is as it's the good part of this post. Had I done the list in July or August Rika would have been about 18th and not made the list! But her last four posts have all been so much better than the ones from the first half of 2022, this is a pretty darn superb post too and you could say she's jumped six spots in four months. Sadly no gravure pics like these above but as I've always said her regular modeling pics are all so terrific, when I said a decade older its because on October 11th she hit the age of 34!

 This is the eighth list, the first was done in 2015 and since then eleven have made the list three or more times. With a position average of 5.3 Rika is in second place for highest average, the only one to top her will be in the fifth position. This is also her 82nd post and its become so rare for an actress/model to hit the mark of 100 posts, its only been done once in the last five years. So I would expect(hope) she'll be the next one which should happen in 2024, bet that will be the final time that semi milestone is hit. Rika is the oldest women on the list and I do wonder sometimes how much longer she'll remain so busy? Actually seems she does so much more modeling work these days and those pics will take up the majority of the post, this is her tenth post for 2022 so she's showing no signs of slowing down.

 At 92(?) pics this is a huge post and 76 of them are brand new from the past month or so! But am holding back a magazine spread and many modeling pics so there should be a post for Rika in about three weeks and let's make sure she qualifies for next year's list too as seven consecutive times would be a record. One thing she's done so little of over the years is post IG pics, however she got on a roll at the end of October and did post many super duper pics.

 There has been a slowdown with magazine spreads, just one new one for this month but am going to hold on to it for her next post. This will be the only oldie set of pics which is from the March 30, 2020 issue of Big Comic Spirits. It was promoting Rika's second photobook "Madeira" which came out in April of that year, it could be an historical set as I think it's her last gravure spread.

 Rika has the lead role in the current drama "Takane no Hana-san". It's the second season and did recap the entire first which was kind of an enjoyable show though a bit lame, unsure if I'll be recapping this second season. Most of this post will be for new modeling pics and why not as she has so many of them, often mention how her classy pics in a way are almost as good as gravure ones. First off is this batch from the Snidel Autumn/Winter collection which gets an A++++ from me.

 My fave Rika modeling pics from the last two years has been from the Stola site, many terrific new pics for their Autumn collection.

 Always have to have new pics from the Oggi site in a post, Rika's been with them since August 2019.

 Will end off with more pics from Oggi and a November 2nd event. On that date the company was celebrating their 30th anniversary though it officially happened in August. Of course Rika had to be there and she does look so classy at these events, you'll notice the fave in the 16th position was also there to celebrate! Plenty of fabulous pics from the event though wish there were more, after them is a short video of it.