Ayumi Ishida: Her captivating and enticing "Believe in Oneself" photobook!!!!

 

 Don't know when it began but for at least the last four years have always tried to begin off a month with a terrific photobook. Even though 2024 has seen such a decrease in posts (which was not by choice 😖) think there's been a photobook for the beginning of all ten months to date though it's getting tougher and by sheer luck just discovered yesterday this book had never been posted.... whewwww! Think I may be getting an older Keya book for December though it's not official yet so that means have to work on getting one for November to keep the streak alive.

 To get myself in the mood am playing the first disc of a two CD set of Morning Musume's greatest hits or to be more accurate a singles collection. This disc only features songs up until 2004 which is fine by me, very often have said how the MM tunes from 1997 to about 2005 are unbeatable and doubt if I will ever change my opinion. So of course that means Ayumi is a member of Morning Musume and bet a few wondered who the woman in the title was? But long time visitors of this blog may recall who Ayumi is, though this is her first post in over three years think this may be tenth overall and I really like her but it's been so difficult to do posts for Hello Project members the past three years. One reason is because of so many graduations and most of my faves left, quite a few of the newish members are a tad too young but are getting older and I still do follow MM somewhat closely. EDIT: It's a day later and just recalled the H!P Digital Book series that came out once a month. To me that was the best top series of all time for photos and this is a sad anniversary. For the series ended exactly three years ago as the final book came out near the end of September 2021, I miss that series so much and never understood why it was discontinued.

 Speaking of graduations Ayumi will be doing that on December 6th so she has been on my mind lately and besides this post let me try to do one of two more by the end of the year. In January Ayumi will be hitting the age of 28 so I think that will be a record for being the oldest member though if another gal stays until next July she will break that mark which wouldn't have lasted for too long. Ayumi's seventh photobook will be coming out in three weeks so am hoping to have a post with a few mag spreads, promo and event pics plus any other news such as the details of her graduation single. On to the pics for the photobook which was Ayumi's fifth one and was released on January 7, 2020 which was her 23rd birthday. Glad I cleaned up my picture folder which is so too massive and because of that at times overlook things such as this book. The photo shoot took place on the island Okinawa which is so common for H!P members, this book has 116 pics. Couldn't find a video for the book which is okay as Ayumi looks terrific in this book, know I've done so many more posts for the three '46' groups but all in all to me Hello Project members have always been a bit more attractive. Plus their photobooks are all fabulous but no need to tell you that as those posts have always been very popular.