Keyakizaka46: Rina Uemura's.... monumental 'Happy 27th Birthday' post!

 

 This may be the only post for today though I am in the process of writing up a few more. But there may not be time to finish any as this truly is a Monumental post and do have to say I worked so hard on this one which didn't leave me much free time. It's become so difficult to do solo posts for the Keya members outside of one or two of them but had been promising to do this for a while. So if you are one of Rina's few fans here this could be your top Keya post of the year! Bet there will easily be over a hundred pics and at least eighty will be new for here!

 Will admit I've had a bit of a secret crush on Rina for a few years now as she is just so adorable 😘, don't mention it often for she's rarely had any solo posts in the past. She is just way too quiet and especially on the 'Soko' shows but deep down I have a feeling she'd be a fun and interesting gal to hang with but odds are high I'll never find out! For a change am doing a birthday post on the same day it happened, at 27 in age she is Keya's oldest member plus think she's the second oldest of all the current '46' gals. So while Rina is a bit too shy and quiet have noticed the third generation members really look up to her and consider her to be a sort of 'mentor' so hope she continues on for a while.

 You won't find any gravure pics in this post and that's actually a good thing, wish I could do a few more in this vein. Have a real lot of photos and such to get to so let' dive right into them, even at the age of 27 Rina is still so overly kawaii so hopefully she can gain a new fan or two. One thing you rarely see, maybe twice a year, are solo pics of her from Keya's 'Diary' blog and these are some recent ones from the past few weeks.

 That bottom one was from late November and was the final one with the five remaining first generation members.... soon to be three in a month! Don't encourage the groups to fraternize with their rivals 😈 but we'll make another exception for today, she seems to be very close to Mei from Hina and they do have so many more photos together, both old and newish. Perhaps it's also because they're the two shortest first generation members in each group?

 Haven't been including many new pics of Rina in the group posts the last 2-3 months as I did want to have a grand post for her. So this huge batch of cards that have come out since June are all brand new for here, many are for the their last two singles and tour.

 Christmas is now ten days in the past but why not have some pics that had never been seen here before, were no new ones for this year.

 On the first day of each month there's new 'message photos' added to the Keya(Sakura) site, these go back eight months to June and the top one is for January. Just a personal opinion but I've always thought their uniforms are much better than the ones the other two '46' groups wear, especially over the last two years.

 "Saku Koi' is a newish simulated group game that began in July. Have some of Rina's promo pics for the game and the bottom five just came out for New Year's.

 Rina has never had a huge amount of solo magazine spreads or at least compared to other members but she did have a fair amount of them from 2017-21. Think this set from the February 2021 issue of BLT Graph could be her final solo one to date.

 How about a real oldie but goldie that's from a September 2017 issue of Flash, she was just twenty at the time and her looks have really changed(improved!).

 Rina plays the trombone or at least used to, just once would love to see the members who can play an instrument do a song live. Did mention she's the shortest 1G member as her height is just a little over 153 cm and she hails from Chiba. Maybe I need to do more searching but find it hard to believe how few pics there are of this fabulous duo....

 We've hit the end to this massive post and hope her fan(s) enjoyed it! Also with a birthday is Rena who turned 24 two days ago, did try working on a post but that hasn't been successful but will have it soon enough. Because their birthdays are just two days apart you often see Rena with Rina in 'Uni's on Air' game pics and they have three of them below. This batch of promo pics for the game go back five months, there were none for October. The top eight are brand new for January, when you have a birthday that member gets an extra four pics so she has eight for this month. Was hoping she would host 'Showroom' to celebrate turning 27 bit it doesn't appear as though she did. That's okay that she didn't host the show for after the pics have a much better video. Which is from April 2022 and a 'Backs Live' concert which features Rina being the center for her only time for the "Saisyu no Chikaatersu no Notte" song that was off the first Sakura single. Don't think there's been a 'Backs Live concert for a while but to me they put on a better show than the Senbatsu members.