Hinako Kitano: Has made a brief resurrection from her crypt....

 

 A mini goal of mine at the beginning of the month was to have any kind of post for her before the year ended, can't believe it's been ten months since her last one. Know many others have missed these posts for Hinako as over the years she has become a huge fave of so many of you viewers. In 2022 she was the seventh most popular woman here as her posts drew an average of 974 views, since then that average has climbed to over 1,200!!!! Often when I do these blast from the past posts it breaks the ice and more posts seem to follow, have my fingers crossed that's the case this time.

 In 2022 Hinako had one of the top years a woman has ever had here. She was third on the yearly faves list, second on the 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list, had my #1 photobook of the year and when she graduated from Nogi had been my all time number one member. Plus that bottom pic above was my top one from 2022 and could be in my top five of all time! So while last year had so many accolades it didn't spring out of nowhere as I've been ga-ga over Hinako since 2015 which was well before any of her photobooks were released. As mentioned this is her first post in ten months and this year did begin off well as she was in a drama and stage play. But then things really slowed down for Hinako and she's someone I do check every day to see if anything new has arisen, 99% of the time that ended in a failure. Know she was a bit ill for a while as she had to back out of an October stage play so let's hope that her longish hiatus is a thing of the past and these posts can become much more common.

 Have noticed Hinako is starting to become a tad busier over the past month. She will be in a drama beginning on January 12th titled "Nurse ga Konkatsu" which does star a very old time fave of mine so will check that show out. Not a huge amount of recent things for today but did say a goal was to have this post before the year ended. Do have some older pics which may have been forgotten about but will begin off with these recent pics from her IG page, she had hardly any from June until September.

 Hinako's last post featured many pics for the Vannie U Spring collection. She must have had well over a hundred modeling pics for them in 2022 which were all superb but it appears she's no longer with them. We all know what today is so to celebrate how about some sharp looking older Nogi cards plus others for the holiday!

 Also have more older Nogi cards for New Year's and how I miss having these for her and other graduates. 'Lucky Bag' was the other name for their holiday cards.

 There's just been two magazine spreads since February and both were very tiny. First below is from the February 26th issue of Flash that was promoting her current drama. That had three pages, the other set is from the August issue of Monthly Basketball which had four, never knew she was a fan.

 The last time Hinako appeared at an event was on May 7th, hopefully there may be one for her upcoming drama. That one in May was at the Spring 'Sapporo Collection' show and have noticed she does appear often at those, she was born in Hokkaido but grew up in Chiba.

 Did say that Hinako's second photobook that came out in 2022 was my #1 of the year. Tomorrow she has a web book coming out called "Ordinary" and she's anything but that! It'll feature outtake pics from that book's photo shoots and on January 8th there will be a live stream where you can win two autographed photos! Here are some promo pics for the web book, not many but that second one....

 We're already at the end, lot of pics but not too many segments or newish things but least I was able to do a post for her before 2023 ended. Hinako does have her own YT Vlog and does upload many videos but will admit most are just so-so. After the pics have one from last year celebrating Christmas and her best mate from Nogi is also extremely overdue for a post, she too has semi disappeared. That video is after these overly perfect photos, don't think Hinako enjoyed doing gravure pics for her photobooks but if she ever decided to become a model bet she would be so popular and have run out of adjectives for her hotness, whewwww....