Kazumi Takayama: Her enchanting "Koi Kamoshirenai" photobook scans(a repost)

 

 Was able to squeeze one more post in and that first photo above could be the most underrated one from a Nogi member! Have said a few times recently how I was cleaning up some older posts, this is one of them but not because the pics in the post had been deleted or were unviewable. Up until 2017 often would split up photobooks into 2-3 posts and guess I did that to increase the post counts. But doing that makes it harder to view books so for some am going back and combining those 2-3 posts into one. An even bigger reason is for when I did post this book(over seven years ago!) knew the quality of the scans was just fair so said I would come back at some time in the future and post some high quality pics. Could have done this post a few years back but had forgotten all about and that's a semi lead-in to the other reason for the post. 

 Which is of how I do miss many of my favorites from Nogi's first generation and this could be the first post for any of them in about ten months! It's close to impossible to have regular posts for graduates these days and also it's not so easy for the two current members I like quite a bit. Had Kazumi a little more exposure she could have been in the running to be my #1 all time Nogi member! I always liked her immensely and when I did a post back in 2016 for my top ten Nogi gals she finished in the second position! Viewers seemed to like Kazumi too as her posts were always popular, it's nice taking a short walk down memory lane now and again so hopefully there are a few other older Nogi posts which need to be done over again.

 Kazumi was one of the last first generation members to depart from Nogi as she didn't leave until November 2021 or three years ago. At the time she was only a little over two months away from hitting the age of 28, next February she will be 31. In July Kazumi announced she had gotten married and who wouldn't want her to be their wife, if I had to choose one first generation gal it would be her! Not positive but think that makes it five 1G members to get hitched and almost all are 30+ in age. As many fans know Kazumi did write a novel about a fictional Idol which of course was based upon her Nogi days, it was very successful and think there was an Anime made of it. These days Kazumi appears on many variety shows and does a bit of acting along with doing a few other activities but it doesn't seem as though she has one main thing she does. On to the photobook which was the seventh one for a Nogi member and was released on September 15, 2016, this book contains an even one hundred pics. What was odd is that another Nogi member had a book come out two weeks later so of course that affected sales of this book as it sold only 25,000 copies. The photo shoot took place in Kazumi's hometown of Minamiboso which is in Chiba, at the fan meeting event for the book she did say if there was a second she would want it to be set in Helsinki and guess what.... her second book was!