Hinatazaka46: The second first generation post....

 

 If that first pic leaves you speechless join the club as I've been in a daze for two days!!!! Of course that's Shiho and that pic is the running for my #1 of the year, whew! Both above are from her upcoming first photobook and will have her next solo post in about two weeks. Can't say it's been a busy stretch for Hina but think you will be seeing many posts coming up for them. can see the first generation members Kyoko and Yuka also having a post this month. Plus will do a post for the 2/3G members soon, possibly this week and expect a few solo posts for some of those members this month also. This is just the second time having a post for the first generation members and usually don't like to split the gals up but thought I'd do something different and there could be close to a hundred new pics. 

 Posts like this one are often quite good as I can feature some of the members who get overlooked, been doing that for a while with Keya and think it's worked out well. So have a little bit of many things though you won't see too much of the trio mentioned in the beginning as will save their newish pics for those solo posts. First off are the 1G monthly messages that get added to the group site the first of a month, nine members now but that will be shrinking by one soon.

 "Once Choice" is the title of Hina's ninth single that was released on April 26th. It's sold over 500,000 copies to date which makes it their best selling single since their fifth one. Have some promo cards for it that feature Mei, Ayaka, Mana and Mirei.

 You never hear enough about Sarina and I think she looks really, really good. She doesn't appear often in magazines nor at events, this batch is from her 'Sari Mekashi' radio show that began airing on April 4th, she's going to be turning 26 later in this year.

 The team captain Kumi is also someone I like quite a bit but she too hasn't had many pics in recent group posts though have been a bit lazy about doing them. These are newish photos from her IG page with the top two being from the May 4th 'Girl Award' show.

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 Have even more pics here from that May 4th 'Girls Award' show plus some recent modeling pics from the Ray site and wish there were more of them.

 Maybe I'll do another of these posts next month so a few other members can have a turn in the spotlight. One new magazine spread and it's a huge one from the July issue of BLT, the spread is for the first generation gals and some of the pics are from the photo shoot.

 Will end off with two batches of new promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game, the theme for June is Hideout Gig. Each member has four photos, leading off are Kyoko and Shiho, as mentioned both will have a solo post coming up very soon. Third up is Mei who will be hitting the age of 25 in May and almost every member will be that age very soon, rounding out this set is Sarina and last up is Mana, both of them will be turning 25 by the end of the year.

 First up for this last set of pics is Yuka who as mentioned will have a post coming up very soon, her graduation concert will be taking place on July 16th so will have another post for her after that. Second is Ayaka and I think she looks so tremendous but we don't see enough of her in magazines or having modeling pics these days. Final two are the team captain Kumi and she'll be turning 28 next January, how much longer will she remain with Hina. Last up is Mirei who will be the youngest first generation member after the graduation, she'll be turning 24 in December.