Keyakizaka46: Their exalted seventeenth post for 2022....

 

 Know many may not be in agreement but that second photo is just so demurely alluring, that's one of my top Yui pics of the year and she's had too many of them to count! She's been in a battle for being this year's #1 fave and I think she's edged past her foe. The post for number one will be done on December 20th and it appears Yui will be the first Keya gal to top a yearly list though of course Risa was number one on my all time faves list. Though Keya has had only one single in 2022 it's been a nice rebound year for them, least here it has been. This is the 17th group post of the year and have had over forty solo posts so that's an average of over one post a week and there's still 28 days to go.

 This is going to be another super duper post, no events and only one new mini mag spread but there is a good variety of things for today. Why not get that spread out of the way now, it's from the January issue of Bubka which features Yui, Ten and Rei.... why was it so tiny?!

 How about some pics from Keya's 'Diary group blog? Sounds like a good idea to me and first off we have some pics of Keya's new captain Rina. Keep trying to have solo posts for her but it's seldom worked out.... sigh, fraternizing with the enemy again in the bottom two pics....

 More blog pics which are for Hikaru, top three though are from a BLT photo shoot and as you can see in the fourth pic she too hangs out with the enemy....

 There's a huge amount of Christmas promo pics coming out for the 'Uni's on Air' web game, may have a post for all of them and also have some other holiday goodies. Still have some from November that haven't been posted and as you can see the theme for the month was Autumn though would have liked to have seen some Halloween pics which they've never had. This quartet should be the final ones for the month, leading off is Mizuho and still have never had a solo post for her. All have four pics, after her is Rei and I wouldn't be shocked if she was chosen to be Keya's vice-captain. Rounding out the foursome is Hikari and then Kira, you ever notice how she rarely smiles?

 In the last Keya group post for the first time had a mini feature for a member and said I would try to make it a series. They'll be for the members who I like quite a bit but seldom have enough pics for a solo post. Here's the second member in the series who is the group's other Rina and to me she just may have the most attractive face of any Keya gal. She'll be turning 22 at the end of January so a goal will be to try having Rina's first solo post then. No recent mag spreads so let's go back to January and this mini set from EX-Taishu.

 Some Keya cards that came out in July and hadn't been posted before.

 Back in June Rina became a host of the 'All Night Nippon' radio show, all three '46' groups have their own show but she's the first Keya member to have one and these are from the show's site.

 One final batch of Rina pics are these new ones for 'Uni's on Air', top four are from November and of course the other four are for X-Mas.

 Last bit for this post will be a mini recap for the group's 'Soko' variety show, this was episode #102 that aired on October 9th. Know it's a bit old but am now caught up with the subbing team who have fallen off the pace a bit. This is part two of a challenge, first part was in the last group post. The theme was "Autumn Artistic Sense Check!" where the members showed their skills at drawing.... or in the case of some their non-talents! Make these recaps kind of short and let the screenshots explain most of what took place, there's 56 of them and it's only a 25 minute show. There were two competitions in this episode, the members were split up into two groups... Team Morita and Team Koike.

 This first duel was a bit confusing, even the hosts and announcer said so. There were six on each team, five would be the drawers and the other member would try to deduce what was drawn. However there was a twist as the drawings had to combine the features from four animals, the title was "Mixed Creature Drawing". So as you can see in the screenshots Ten had to guess what four animals were drawn as one figure and it was harder than you would think. But she did solve the riddle and it took her all five drawings to do so. There were were 'Beret Points' given out if you could solve it, if you could get the four animals/insects in the first drawing you would get five points, then four points for two drawings, etc. We learned once again that Yui is a bit inept at drawing but Hikaru isn't and it was her figure that enabled Ten to guess all four creatures.

 Hono was the guesser for Team Koike and she did slightly better, it took her four drawings to figure out the creatures were a pig, eel, mantis and hippo. Her team got two points so they held a slim lead going into the second and final challenge. This time a member had to have a drawing of a Sakura song and that was bit more fun to watch. The new group captain Rina M is Keya's best singer and also knows more songs than anyone else. In two minutes she was able to guess five songs, would have been more if the drawings were better. So for Team Morita it was up to Yui to get six songs correct to tie the match ip and guess what? She got a grand total of ZERO correct and that was kind of shocking to me. That brought us to the end of the match and wish there were more challenges, the next two episodes will be featuring athletic contests.