Hinatazaka46: A little(huge) bit of this and that for 2022 #28....

 

 Hopefully can do another post for Miku this week, her first photobook comes out in two days and what I really hope happens is that there's an event for the book. There hasn't been a regular one for any '46' book since March 2020(!) and while 'Showroom' is somewhat okay after a member appears on it four times in a month it's a bit of an overkill. This has been Hina's busiest year ever here and wonder if they had more posts than Keya? Will figure that out soon but Hina has had 28 group posts and should have one more before the year ends. Then Kyoko has had eleven solo posts, Miku nine, Shiho four plus Konoka, Hina and Suzuka each had three. When you add in the members who had one or two posts the total grows to 67 which is 1.3 posts a week for the year. Long time visitors may remember the days when Nogi had seventy or more group posts but those often only had fifty or so pics which is still decent sized. Hina's posts all have well over a hundred pics so actually the difference in the amount of photos isn't too far apart.

 Whew, Hina's first book was something else and was my third favorite photobook of the year. She picked the wrong year for a book though as it may have been #1 in most other years! Once again this is a post with no new magazine spreads nor event pics but it'll still be a large and decent post. We always used to see at least five members at those huge fashion shows but for some reason no one has made an appearance since a September show. That'll be changing as this quintet will be at the January 14th 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show along those other five '46' members.

 Hina is holding their annual Christmas concert today so hopefully can get a video of it and will have many photos from it in their next post if that works out. Suzuka had three solo posts this year but wish the total was ten times that! I like her immensely and would love to see her have a photobook but not holding my breath, some recent pics from her IG page.

 Celebrating a birthday in eight days will be Sarina who will be hitting the age of 25, never mention her often which is mainly because she's not in the limelight often but has been in two stage plays this year. By this time next year seven of the nine first generation members will be 25+ in age and really hoping there's not a deluge of graduations. 

 Have some brand new promo pics for the group's 'Mysterious Library' game which I haven't had for a while and wish they had more of them. 

 More promo Christmas game pics which are for 'Uni's on Air'. Have a quartet of members who are Suzuka, Konoka, Marie and Akari, have four more members to get to which will be in the group's next post that should be next week.

 In February Hina will be celebrating their fourth anniversary of their name change from Hiragana46 and breaking away from Keya. But the concerts won't be taking place until the first and second of April, they're called Hinatansai. The group's last single was titled 'Midnight' and have been posting many cards for it, today we have the cards for Ayaka and Mana.

 Will end off with a mini recap for the group's 'Aimashou' variety show, call them mini but lately they've been getting too long. This is episode #187 that aired on November 27th and it gets me caught up with Team Hinatasubs. Not officially but the next two shows were for the new fourth generation members and for now am not too interested in them but some were on this episode of 'Aimashou'. "Member's Future Fantasy History" was the title of this show's theme, it was the third time they've had one of these but it had been almost three years since the second one aired. A trio of members had their own 'Hinatime Machine' where they looked at where they would be two, five or maybe even thirty years from now, it was a mix of being serious and and also some fantasy as the show's title mentioned. The screenshots below go in the exact order of the action so viewing them may be better and perhaps you won't even need to watch this show!

 First up was Sarina and her segment was the best of the three. Few of her predictions for the future were a bit interesting such as a Hina theme park called Hinata Dream Land which she wants to open up when she's 28. Also she had dreams of moving to Canada to open a cafe(!) and by the age of 48 having her own variety show, none of the members mentioned getting married with children. Up next was Haruyo and she mainly talked about a horror film named "It's Fun, Right?" and at the age of fifty was planning on doing paper theater versions of the movie. A few months back did read something about Haruyo and the other third generation members being in a horror film but just checked and couldn't find any info about, will do some further investigating. Up last for looking at her future was Hiyori and she too is someone I'd love to see have a photobook. Her segment was the shortest but did end off with with a fun game of Airsoft which Hiyori had never played before and that was her wish to do before she hit the age of 75! There were a few of the new fourth generation members in this game which ended in a draw and as mentioned if you view the screenshots they go in order of the action.