Hinatazaka46: A little(lot) of this and that for 2023 #4....

 

 Whew, shouldn't it be a crime to have a photo as perfect as the first one(?), whew again! Often mention some faves who seem to save the day when there's so little to post about. Who has never been mentioned is Hina and they just may be #1 in that category, did so many posts to begin the month off and should have kept a few of them for a rainy day. Speaking of Kyoko, not that we were(!), she's been a bit quiet as of late but does have a good reason. She's been filming the "Actress" drama that will have it's first show in eight days, she'll be the only member from Hina in the series but there will be three each from Keya and Nogi so that's a drama that will be recapped. Or least I hope so as the "Borderless" show only had one episode subbed which was kind of disappointing.

 Single #9 "Once Choice" will be coming out on April 19th. These are the covers and such for the single, think what I may do is have a post for it a few days after it's release with many pics from the making of the videos, sales stats and whatever else. For the first time Akari will be the center and the last five singles have had a different center.

 Over the weekend Hina had a pair of concerts to celebrate their fourth anniversary, it was in February 2019 when they broke away from Keya. The shows were called 'Hinatansai' and took place at the Yokohama Stadium which drew 74,000 fans to the pair of concerts. The second one was streamed and do have it so may add in a lot of screenshots in future posts, it was close to a three hour show.

 There's one huge positive you have to say about Hina group posts and that's of them having a lot of variety, today continues that and once again there may be over 140 pics. May mention the new fourth generation members slightly in the last segment but it'll be a while until their activities are talked about in these posts. Will begin off with some brand new monthly message photos that were added to the Hina site five days ago, there's twenty members in the first three generations.

 The bottom pic is of Hina's tallest member Mikuni. Have some recent photos here of her from the Hina group blog, some are from a photo shoot for the Top Yell magazine.

 In each issue of the Friday magazine the group has a two page spread called 'Hina Satsu'. These are from the last four issues and the dates were April 14th and 7th, then Mach 31st and 24th.

 Just one solo spread for today but it's a large one, Nao was the cover girl for the April 12th edition of Weekly Shonen Sunday and in a few pics was dressed as the Detective Conan character.

 Always have a bunch of new promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game. These aren't regular monthly photos but instead ones celebrating the game's..... 3.5 anniversary?! Will have eight members and this first batch will have a quartet of them. All are first generation members and leading off is Mei, she'll be hitting the age of 25 in August and by the end of the year all the 1G members will be 25+ except for one. After her is Hina's captain and also oldest member Kumi, will she stay until she hits the age of thirty?! Rounding out this group is Ayaka and in the cleanup position is Sarina.

 Still a dozen members after today to get to and will have those pics in the next two group posts. This quartet will feature second generation members, up first is Suzuka who I always try to have solo posts for though that's easier said then done. Up second is her close mate Konoka who is followed by Hina and the center of the new single Akari.

 Once again will end off with a brief recap from the group's 'Aimashou' variety show, this was episode #203 that aired on March 26th and you can get these at the Team Hinata site. The recap will be short again for the fourth generation members got a lot of air time, can understand why but wish their introductions were done more gradually. But in this show we did see a bit more of the older members so said why not include the screenshots? Back in June 2020 there was an episode to see who the smartest members were, also the least intelligent! So in this episode it was trying to discover who is the smartest of the 4G members, also with everyone else as all 32 took the same tests. There were two tests that each had twenty questions, one was in Japanese Literature and the other in Math. To me over the years the most intelligent member has been Yuka who will be graduating within the next two months. Don't know what Yuka's plans are but she should attend a top notch university, she scored 18/20 in literature and 15/20 in math.

 You can just follow the screenshots to see what took place and they go in order of the action. The dumbest of the members from that first test were sent to a different room as there's only so much room in the studio. If they could score well on this new test they would be allowed back into the studio but we never saw any return though it appeared Hina deserved so as she seems like a smart gal. One member who really isn't too bright is Suzuka and figures she's my fourth favorite member. Scoring well for the new 4G members were Sumire and Honoka, both did very well in math. As a matter of fact some of those questions were quite difficult, especially the last one which needed to be explained by Miku and she'd make for a fine teacher....