Keyakizaka46: The 'Happy 26th Birthday to Rina Uemura' post....

 

 One day late with this but that's no big deal as I'm glad this post could finally be done! A few group posts ago said a goal of mine for 2023 was to have the first ever Rina solo post, she's someone who I've always liked quite a bit but she's easy to overlook. Don't expect many of these in the future but a minor goal will now be to have her second post this year! Keya aka Sakura has three current members named Rina, this one and the group captain had a duet song but there's been none just featuring the trio which to me seems like it'd be a good idea.

 Rina is easy to overlook because she's just too darn quiet and shy though that does give her a bit of charm. She's also easy to forget at times for she doesn't appear in too many magazines nor have I ever seen her at an event, least with all of the graduations she's getting a decent amount of screen time on their  'Soko' variety show. Speaking of that show in another week or two will have a pair of posts that will recap the final two episodes the original captain appeared on. Rina is just one of five first generation members left, she's now the oldest gal in Kaya and at a little over 153 cm is the shortest of all 1G members. Forget exactly when but last year made the prediction she would be the final first generation member to graduate and still think that's a high possibility.

 Rina hails from Chiba and though 26 in age she's lost none of her cuteness, I've always had this semi secret crush on her. If you are a fan this will be a post that you'll certainly enjoy, there should be at least seventy pics and the vast majority have never been posted before. Such as these older ones for her birthdays but there's so few of them.

 Few recent blog pics but she has so few solo ones, do have some older ones at the bottom with her best Keya mate who is also above in the middle photo.

 Well, you can never go wrong with pairing up with last year's #1 and there's some ancient pics here, she'll have her next post in about ten days.

 This year's 'W-Keyaki Fes' took place in July but only Hina performed as so many Keya members had the virus, they did their own pair of festival shows a month later. The cards for the festival didn't come out until November but haven't got around to posting any of them or at least until now.

 Have had a good amount of Rina photos in group posts but will admit there could have been so many more over the last five years. However that could work out for the best as it means there's a slew of pics you've never seen before so perhaps I can squeeze in a few more posts for her but it won't be on a regular basis. One thing you've never seen are these promo cards for the 'Keyakise' web game and that ceased in August 2020 or just before the name change to Sakura. So here's some superb older cards for the game from 2018/19.

 Will try to do a Keya group post within the next ten days. Their next single will be coming out in six weeks and they've recruited eleven new third generation members but don't think the official announcement will be until tomorrow. Rina has never been a regular model for any site or magazine but she has appeared on the cover or Marquee three times along with having a few other spreads for them. Rina's last time as a cover girl was for volume #146 that came out in June and had never posted this set until today, I think she looks so oki doki!

 There's a few other Rina spreads for Marquee that haven't been posted and they'll appear in those future posts. Let's go back in time for this next terrific spread that's from the February 2021 issue of BLT Graph, she used to have a fair amount of magazine spreads. But then again so didn't many other Keya members but the spreads have really slowed down the last two years.

 Think Rina is one of those rare Idols who will never have any gravure photos and to me there's nothing wrong at all with that. Will be ending off with some new promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game and how I really enjoy their pics. There's four to each set, first are for her January 4th birthday, next four are for New Year's which is followed by some for Christmas and the final ones are from November. As expected there's no decent solo videos save for those from Keya's 'Soko' show. But do have a nice treat after these pics which is a live version of the song "Utusukushiki Nervous" which was off the group's third single "Nagaredama". In this version Rina has a lot of screen time as she could be considered the sings Center, it was from a 'Backs Live' concert earlier this year.