Thursday, April 4, 2024

Kyoko Saito: Sigh, her final post as a Hinatazaka46 member.... (sob, sob)....

 


 I can never get tired of viewing that top pic which isn't far from being my #1 of all time! Sadly know most good things must come to an end but am getting so tired of my massive J-Pop faves leaving their groups. That won't be much of a problem in the future as there's hardly anyone left(!), at one time current Idols would have 10-12 positions on the yearly faves list but think the total may drop to three this year, maybe only two! After going three months without a regular Kyoko post this is her second in three weeks, should have another in about two weeks.



 Kyoko's graduation concert doesn't take place until tomorrow so technically she will be a Hina member for 24 more hours. Perhaps until the end of the month as I notice many grads tend to post photos at the group blog but tomorrow will be it for Hina activities. Actually am not too sad about Kyoko departing as I has a strong feeling it would happen this year but thought it would this Summer or later. Not a lot of sections to this post but do have sixty new pics for her dwindling fan base as the amount of views for her posts has really decreased over the last year. Can't give a good reason for that as all of her posts are superb and I like Kyoko more than ever, she could be one of my all time top ten fave women.



 As you can tell the top pic above is for her grad concert, much info on it in her next post. That second photos is among my all time favorites, the trio all finished in the top fourteen on my 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list. Let's get to the new things and will begin off with some recent IG pics from Kyoko's page, she also posts them at the Hina 'Diary' group blog. Am holding some things back for that next post but sadly one thing that never happened was her second photobook.


















 The calendar does show that it's Spring but not where I am as it's snowing rather heavily, should be cleared up though for next Monday's opening day. So it being Spring(in a way) do have some older Hina cards for the season from 2017/18 but of course back then the group was known as Hiragana46. But the top six are newish cards that came out in January.


















 Kyoko has been a model for the ar magazine since June 2019 but did have a recent longish stretch without any new pics from them. But do have some new modeling pics from their site and am holding back her mini March spread for that next post.









 Hina's 11th single had to be delayed so won't be coming out for a month. Kyoko won't be on the main song but she does have a grad tune on the single and the PV for it just came out. Have the link to it here as Sony usually doesn't allow you to embed Hina and Keya music videos. The name of the song is "Bokunitsuzuke" and it is a cool video as we get to see a bit of Kyoko footage from many years ago. I've been smitten with her since 2018 and she was the first Hina member to have a solo post, the PV only features her first generation mates and only six will be left: "Bokunitsuzuke" video



 Kyoko used to appear in so many magazines but that hasn't been the case for so long, think her last non-ar spread was ten months ago! But she is the cover girl for this terrific new spread from the April 18th issue of Weekly Shonen Champion, her last spread had been with them. Had the PV for her final Hina song above so will skip having another video after the pics as there are no new ones. Hopefully Kyoko will upload a final solo video to the group's YT page or perhaps host 'Showroom' one last time. The Hinata subs site is currently down but hope for not too long, think she had a farewell 'Aimashou' episode so when that gets subbed may devote a whole post to it.
















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