Hono Tamura: A huge amount of sizzling tidbits for her second photobook "Tonari no Seki Ni Naritai" plus more!!!!

 

 Did a post three weeks ago for all those faves who celebrated an October birthday, did forget a few names but that post still featured eleven women. In that post said even though Hono's second photobook was coming out wouldn't be doing a post for her. Then thought about it a bit more and said to myself 'Why not?', she is very popular with you viewers plus for a long time was my favorite second generation member. So am glad this post is being done and will end off with with some truly stunning pics from her second book. Not saying to buy it or other ones but this is such a wise time to purchase books and other things from Japan as the $ is so strong compared to the Yen. At some major sites you can get this book for less than $25 though shipping is often high.

 

 Back in August 2021 Hono's first photobook was released, at over 85,000 copies sold it's been the best selling Keya book over the last four years. At the time she was my top 2G member but even with a successful book seemed her activities really slowed down and many others were in the spotlight more than her which baffled me. Doing less is why someone passed Hono for being my top 2G member though I've always had such a soft spot for her and I really like the way she looks for she doesn't quite have the look of an Idol, hard to explain but sure many know what I mean. When this second book was announced immediately thought a graduation would be coming up but so far no news on that. Which is probably because of two first generation members leaving together in December(?), wouldn't be shocked if Hono left early next year. These top five pics are from her first photobook, that one dressed in black is one of my all time fave Keya pics.... WOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!

 It's been such a long time since I did a post for her or any current Keya member. I still like the group but with so many faves departing it will never be at the level it was once at but think I will do at least one group post in November and possibly for some members too. Most of this post will be for Hono's second photobook but do have a few other things, this could have been the largest post of all time but held myself back and will have about eighty new pics for today. On the 21st Hono celebrated her 26th birthday and she is the oldest of the second generation members. Below have many promo pics for the 'Uni's on Air' web game and the top four are new for her birthday. No new pics for the game came out for five months so thought these terrific promo photos had ceased but last month they did start up again. So below are twenty pics for the game, top four are for Hono's 26th birthday while the others are monthly pics for October, September, March and February as those two months had never been posted.

 It being so close to Halloween was hoping to have many pics for the semi-eerie day but she didn't have all that many save for the top five pcs below which are Keya cards for the day. The others are Hono's final Keya cards from early October 2020, a week or so later the group changed their name to Sakura.

 Hono does have an IG page and usually also posts those photos at the Keya 'Diary' blog. She does have more current pics than these but just have the ones for her second photobook.

 What's surprising is that there's been no magazine spreads to promote the book and have moaned often about the lack of spreads for the Keya members the last two years. Hono has been doing some interviews to promote the book, pics below are from the Crank site plus also have the link to it. The photo shoot for the book took place in Santa Fe and what an odd place for a J-Pop Idol to visit. Did read four interviews but couldn't find the exact reason she chose that location: Crank site

 Yesterday was the official release date for Hono's book, one day after her 26th birthday. So you can see in a few event photos below they did have a cake for her and didn't she look so super duper? I think so and she was also at last Saturday's 'Girls Award' show, maybe I'll do a November post for her so would have those pics then.

 Will end off with many overly scorching pics from the "Tonari no Seki Ni Naritai" photobook, as terrific as Hono's first one was this book appears to be much better and one of the best ever for a Keya member. The first four pics below are the covers and surprised there were so many promo pics released but how can anyone complain?! Hono doesn't have any new videos at the Keya YT channel nor are there any for the above event. So after these truly dazzling pics have a video from October 21st when she hosted 'Showroom' to plug the book and celebrate her 26th birthday.