Yui Kobayashi: Her slightly belated and only semi-cheerful.... 'Happy 25th Birthday' post....

 

 Usually take the final day of a month off so will be doing so tomorrow, have been on a nice roll as of late with some super duper posts and was hoping to end with a pair of them for today. Won't say this will be the final post for October though odds are good it will be as I haven't been working on anything but perhaps I can find some oldie photobook that has been collection dust. However is there anyone in the world who is better to end a month with? Not in my book there isn't and though it won't happen until early 2025 Yui will be the next woman to hit the milestone mark of a hundred posts! She just needs four more and and hitting that mark has become so rare the last five years, was just looking at who else is close to a hundred and think only two more may ever hit it, if I'm here long enough maybe one other. That wasn't so rare of a milestone to hit but in a way reaching a hundred for many was a bit deceiving, for instance the posts these days are twice the size they were seven or so years ago. Plus many Idols, especially the ones from Nogi, had credit for a post though they may have had only a dozen pics in it. But someone like Yui has rarely been included in group posts and she's had around 65-70 of these the last five years.

 Whew, isn't that bottom photo close to being perfect and how many times over the years have I used the word Perfect when describing Yui 😍😍😍😍? Too many to count and why not as she is my #1 woman of all time and hope her activities begin to pick up again as I would like to see her remain number one for a very long time. Have often said how she's always been the most likable woman I post about and that was years before she became my #1 woman. Of course many know my #1B is her close Keya mate and though I wanted to wait until December maybe beginning off November with her grad book would be a wise idea....

 In the title used the word belated, that's because birthday #25 took place on October 25th and am a week late. Not really late as I was waiting in the hopes some new pics and/or news would come out, a few things did but all in all not too much which is why only semi-cheerful was added into the title. So while this may be a large post there's only about forty or so newish pics but am glad I can do a post as I was worried we may have seen the last of her!!!! Sure others thought so too for after Yui's February 1st graduation concert we didn't hear anything about her for over six months, have heard of Idols taking a breather but seldom for that long. So since her return Yui has appeared at two fashion shows and did have a few new modeling pics but hasn't done much else. So this should be her final post until her position on the yearly faves list comes up, know it sounds odd saying this but she just may end up in the top five and you may wonder HOW? after such a long hiatus. Will talk about why in that post and many may recall she was my number one in 2022.

 Yui has had a few very popular posts, of course her two most viewed were for her pair of photobooks. However after that her posts have only received a so-so amount of views and am very surprised she doesn't have more fans here and why wouldn't she???? Let's get to things and first off are these newish pics from her IG page but there's so few of them. The bottom two are from a streaming event held for her fan club members that took place on October 23rd which was her birthday, the pics before that are of her modeling clothing from her site which she opened two months ago and I have always been curious about how much merchandise do ex-Idols sell?

 Only the two new photos from this year's birthday so let's take a stroll down memory lane for these oldies yet goldies....

 Not many ancient pics for Halloween, have noticed there aren't many of these for J-Pop Idols though for some reason Hina and Nogi have been the exceptions.

 Yui is a model for the andGirl magazine but there's only two new pics so will keep those for now and hopefully there will be many more for her next post as those photos are always terrific. After her February graduation Yui wasn't seen in public until the September 7th 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show and had many superb pics from it in a post done on the day of the show. On September 24th the Model Press site released an interview with her that took place after the show, have the link to it but wish she wouldn't be so vague about her plans/activities when she does interviews: Model Press site

 No new magazine spreads and guess that was to be expected, will we ever see any new ones? Sure we will but my dream is to see her have a digital photobook, not that I'm hoping Yui will become a gravure model but it'd be nice to see more of her heart attack inducing photos 😍!!!! So will have a pair of older mag spreads and I'm unsure if this first one has ever been posted and it's truly prehistoric as it's from the March 2017 issue of EX-Taishu.

 Did say that Yui is a model for the andGirl magazine but think she has had only one spread for them but used to have many modeling pics at their site and hopefully those will pick back up. Here's that one spread she had and it's a stupendous set of pics from their October 2023 issue.

 Do have one more batch of fine looking new pics but of course wish there were many more. Nice to see Yui will still be appearing at these large and on October 19th was at the Autumn/Winter 'Girl Award' show held in Chiba, she took her stroll on the Dazzlin' stage. That's a fashion site and it'd be terrific if she could start doing some work for them also, I just want to see her busy again and have always thought she's more happy/satisfied with her career the busier she is.

 We've hit the end and for the un-grand finale have many photos that put the word Perfect to shame! Most of these you've seen before but have said how unpopular Yui's posts have become so maybe some of these are new for viewers. Have no new videos and there really wasn't anything else I could have added into this post as no Idol has had more posts than Yui since January 2020. Acting would be an activity to get into and she was in a 2023 stage play. Also a non-Keya drama which was "Joshi Kousei no Mudazukai" from 2020 which I thought was a fun show and after the pics is a video featuring various scenes from the series.