Keyakizaka46: The monumental first ever 'First Generation' post!!!!

 

 Few times in June did talk about having this first ever post just featuring the five remaining first generation members. But it was tougher than I expected as save for Yui the other four never have enough newish pics which is why they rarely ever have solo posts. But did work on this a bit and have a nice mix of brand new pics along with some oldies that had never been seen before. This post may appeal more to the long time fans like I am but this turned out excellent and think there's about 140 pics for today and almost all have never been posted before! Of course Yuuka is no longer around but doing the first ever 1G post felt she deserved to lead off and do include her current activities in group posts. Also had to include my #1 woman of all time who is Risa and she's been a tad quiet as of late. On July 27th she'll be hitting the age of 25 so will have a birthday post for her right around that date.

 Except for the bottom new magazine spread there aren't many pics of just the five members together but it's nice to have a post dedicated to them as these days the 2G members get most of the attention, the new 3G members also. These top two pics are from the magazine photo shoot while the third is from their recent tour. The bottom ones are from this weekend's Japan Expo though Yui is missing in the fourth photo. Did briefly talk about their trio to Paris in the previous post and will touch on it more in the next group post but still baffled on why they went from Tokyo to Paris for a thirty minute show? And to top it off they didn't bring any merchandise to sell at their concert!?

 Hopefully the gals had a good time going around the city and it must have been nice to get out of Japan for a few days, bet it's the first time most had left the country. Will have a little bit of many things and will feature everyone except for Yui. That's because I would like to do a post for her about a week from now and then another about two weeks later, however you will see her in at least forty of these pics! It is difficult to have newer solo pics as most 1G members don't appear in magazines nor do they post a lot of photos at the Keya 'Diary' blog. So will have some older things which had never been seen before such as these cards for Fuyuka and they're her first ever ones from over seven years ago!

 Also have some prehistoric 2016 cards for Mizuho and hasn't she changed in seven years! Of course all the member's looks have changed and to me for the better, on July 7th she hit the age of 26 and is Keya's second oldest member.

 Have even more pics of Mizuho and these are brand new from the Classy site, she's been a model for them for a while and why does she have an umbrella in most pics?

 Rina is the group's oldest member and in January she'll be hitting the age of 27. But hope she and the others don't go anywhere soon as the group has been much busier and sadly when someone like her graduates that could mean the end of their show biz career. Could have had some cards but instead will have this oldie mag spread from the June 2018 issue of Entame.

 One last batch of cards from early 2016 that feature Minami and I always thought she was Keya's most kawaii member! Did say all of the members looks have changed over the years but she takes the prize for that and her looks still change to this day.

 Compare the above pics to this batch which are brand new ones from the Model Press site. Minami did an interview with them to promote the new single "Start Over!" which may end up being their best selling single since the name change to Sakura, here's the link to the interview: Model Press site

 Speaking of the "Start Over" single here are the member's promo pics and you will notice they shared one of the inside photos.

 Every month on the 1st there are new member pics and messages at the Keya group site, hadn't posted the one for July until now. Dont know if you noticed but always go in the same order which is of course Yui 😍 who is followed by Mizuho, Minami, Rina and Fuyuka. Except for number one really no reason why it's been that order and would consider Rina to be my second fave current 1G member.

 Last month it was announced there would be a new group game called 'Saku Koi' and it would start up in July. That hasn't happened yet and the reason is probably because the members have been busy promoting the new single and also had that trip to Paris. The voices you hear in the game are the real ones from the members and a lo of recording must be needed. So that game should be starting up very soon and hope to have more info in the next group post, here are the member's promo pics for the game.

 That's a dating simulation game and hope it's not one that you can only use on a Smartphone as I much prefer playing games on my laptop.... also don't have one of those phones! That next group post will have the members July pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game, did do five gals and will eight in that next post, these of course are the July pics for today's honorees!

 Went back and checked twice but to my surprise these 'Uni's on Air' promo pics had never been posted. They have a series called 'Precious Pair' which usually comes out twice a year, these are from April and still stunned they hadn't been posted. The duos feature Mizuho and Rina who are followed by Fuyuka and Yui, sadly the odd member out of the quintet was Minami.

 Will end off with this huge and fabulous spread from the July issue of EX-Taishu, probably the first and last time we'll see a cover just featuring these five gals. This turned out to be one of the better posts of the year, while it won't be a regular series let me try to have one or two more of these by the end of the year. After the pics is a video that had never been posted from April 6th when all five hosted 'Showroom'.