Risa Watanabe: Sure a scant few remember who she is....

 

 What a shame we'll never see photos like those above ever again however never thought we would even see those and old time fans would know what Im talking about. Risa's activities have really slowed down so far in 2024 yet this makes seven months in a row with a post and six for 2024 so it means for the seventh time she's qualified for the yearly faves list. That ties the all time record and though things have slowed down can see her making the top ten again, it would be her seventh time and that would be a new record. However have a feeling these posts for Risa may be slowing way down after today, she's done so little this year to date and don't know of any upcoming activities, perhaps a new photobook could put a jolt into her career!

 But Risa continues to be my #1 woman of all time and has been for over three years now. There are two that are knocking on her door to be my all time Queen and have cut the gap down a bit the past six months but it will take a miracle to dethrone her from that throne! This is sadly just another medium sized Risa post, do have some older things which may have never been seen before but there aren't as many new pics as I was hoping for even though she did attend an event yesterday.

 But then again I just love doing posts for Risa so sometimes it doesn't matter if there's not a lot of current happenings. When posting older group cards for ex-Idols have been trying to make them a theme, such as the month or season we're in. Keya never had any monthly cards but did for the four seasons, in her last post had a batch for Spring and have even more for today which wraps up that season and hope I can do a few Summer posts for her.

 How about more older cards, these are from 2018 and the 'Keya Kise' web game which ceased in August 2020. Haven't done a post for over three months for the group and will I ever have another, they do so little these days or at least activities you can post about.

 Risa seldom posts photos at her IG page though does have her own fan club site, she was one of Keya's worst bloggers. But do have a fair amount of IG pics for today, the top three are from yesterday's event and will have more of them at the bottom.

 Most of those above are from some Non-no photo shoots, have some new pics from their site but this is the smallest batch ever for a month.

 However do have a pair of new Non-no magazine spreads, the top seven pages below are from their May edition while the others are from their June issue.

 Not sure if this set had ever been posted before, if it was had to be five or more years ago! It's from the April 28, 2016 issue of Young Jump so it's exactly eight years old(!), it's an historical spread as it was the first solo one for Risa and obviously her looks have really changed since then.

 The question of the year so far is what's happened to Risa's one time close Keya mate? Of course I'm talking about Yui, she posted some photos at the Keya blog on February 2nd which was the day after her graduation concert. So that was thirteen weeks ago and since then not one peep has been heard from her, sure there's a good reason for that and hope it doesn't mean she retired from show biz... or worse!

 Risa still does attend all of the large fashion shows but there won't be any for the next few months. On May 3rd she was at the Spring 'Girls Award' show that took place at the Yoyogi National Stadium in Tokyo. Usually have at least twenty pics from these shows but not this one and that's a shame as she did look terrific but that's to be expected(!), maybe more will be coming out in the next few days. Will skip having a video as there are no new ones and haven't been for a while. **** Ooooh, almost forgot to menton that four more episodes of Risa's "Black Familia" drama hae been subbed, just two more to go. So once the entire series is complete will recap the show and am looking forward to it, how come she hasn't done any acting since it ended in December?