Nogizaka46: Haruka Kaki, her delightful yet also steamy... "Massara" photobook scans

 

 If you've been a long time reader of Nogi posts here then you may recall how I've often said there would never be any posts for the fourth generation members. Do want to stress it's not that I disliked them but more of a case of them being too young 3-4 years ago and more importantly they were getting a big push from management because they were new. Because of that it meant we saw much less of my fave members from the first three generations and that's a key reason why there was such a rash of graduations. However there have been a pair of gals who I do like and for so long couldn't make up my mind whether or not to have posts for them. 

 A little over a week ago did the first post ever for a 4G member who was Saya and she's someone I really do like, you'll be seeing more of her. In that post mentioned how there was one other member who I also thought highly of and should I begin to post about her too? As you can see the answer was YES and think I made the right decision with this post which should be the first of many, will confess I've secretly really liked Haruka for a while. It's also going to help following two members as it means I'll be keeping tabs on Nogi though not nearly to the extent I once did. But these two members are it for 4G gals and that is something you can take to the bank! Have said a few times in the past how someone reminds me so much of Erika Toda when she was in the 20-23 year old range. They're not identical twins but are so close in looks they could be be and will have some comparison pics in the future.

 Pics two through four above were not in the photobook and were outtake ones, they were so terrific had to include them. So even though there was that first fourth generation post still was wavering about doing this one. But a few days ago Oricon released their top sales figures for 2022, such as the best selling singles, albums, DVDs, etc. On that list was Haruka who had the second best selling photobook of the year and the best seller for Idols. This book has sold 188,000 copies to date and that's the highest total since another Nogi book came out in the Spring of 2020. So that made me say it's time to have a post for Haruka, she is a likable young woman so you'll be seeing much more in the future.

 But perhaps not for a while, want to let this post run it's course and I fully expect this to be the most popular post for 2023. So after this post winds down will have a few more for Haruka's 2022 activities plus she's quite busy so am thinking beginning in February she'll have a post a month. This photobook was released on June 7th and it being such a huge seller will there be another? The photo shoots took place in Tokyo and Miyakojima, these days Idols are stuck in Japan for books. To me the best part of this book is how Haruka doesn't go 'overboard' with the way she looks. So often an Idol tries to look too voluptuous and sometimes I wish they wouldn't, she keeps a 'real style' about her in these pics and that's what makes this such a superb book. There's a total of 124 pics and as mentioned three above were outtake ones.