Hinatazaka46: Their first monumental post for 2023!

 

 Leading off is once again Miku who is now up to eleven solo posts. Her first nine just had a so-so amount of views but those last two have been immensely popular and both are currently in the top ten section for most views for the past month. Will have her next pot in ten days and do have her photobook which are where these top photos are from. Its only been out for two weeks so probably won't post the entire book until April and will say it's so much better than I expected. 

 There's going to be many Hina posts coming up soon, the next group one will be this weekend. Then the following weekend five members will be at the TGC show being held down in Shizuoka so there will be another group post then plus hopefully a trio of ones for members, there should also be a few around that time for some Keya and Nogi gals. 

 Have a little bit of many things for today, so much need another post for them which should be in three days. Let's start off with some new blog pics from Sarina, you'll notice a few are for her birthday and she turned 25 on December 26th, after those are special 'Uni's on Air' game pics for her birthday.

 Seven first generation members are now 24+ in age, hate to think it but sadly soon many will be graduating. How about more pics from Hina's blog, these feature Mikuni who is the group's tallest member and hasn't she really become such an attractive female?!

 In the last group post finished off having all of the new Christmas pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game. But have no fear(!) as there's plenty of new ones for New Year's and have a quartet of members for today. All have four pics and leading off is Konoka who has always been a huge fave of mine but these days somehow looks better than ever, whewwww! Up next is Akari and you'll be seeing her again in this post, third is Hinano with Hina batting cleanup.

 Only one new magazine spread for today but it's a large one and hope there's many more this year than there were in 2022. First off with a superb set is Haruyo who in the last group post had another solo spread, this set is from the December issue of UTB.

 The cover girls for the UTB issue were Akari and Miku, wonder if they've done others together? Mention that because it's been a while since the last 'Pairs Post' and would like to have a few new ones, those have been very popular for all members from the three '46' groups.

 Up last for today is a mini recap for the group's 'Aimashou' variety show. Had skipped two episodes as they just featured the new fourth generation members who we also saw a lot of in this show. It's fine that they're getting a push but hope it doesn't go overboard such as what Nogi did with their 4G members. This aired on December 18th and was episode #190, it was supposed to be for Christmas but it really wasn't a major part of the show. This is the first of two parts, will have the second in the next group post. Am glad it's two parts as I felt this show ended too quickly. Personally feel that these 'Aimashou' could be time managed so much better, between this and the next episode there could have been a dozen segments but bet well only see half that amount.

 The theme to this episode was 'Romantic Love Confession Situation' and these short scenarios were written by the fourth generation members. The screenshots go in order of the action so it may be better to view them to see exactly what took place. The first and second generation members did the acting to romantic scripts written by the new gals, they also portrayed themselves as men which has happened so many times in the past. So was talking about time management and though the skits were short they only performed two of them so am thinking if there's four in the next show that means six scripts will never be seen by us viewers. The two segments were a tad fluffy though will have to say they were enjoyable to watch. Especially the first one which featured Kumi as the man(!), Konoka was the close to being heartbroken woman and she could now be the most attractive female in all three '46' groups! Mikuni was in the second skit and it took me so long to figure out who she was!