Nao's top ten Faves for 2024: Position #4, the peerless and stylish.... Miku Kanemura!!!!

 

Previous Positions

#10, Iori .... #9, Miyuki .... #8, Mio M .... #7, Konoka .... #6, Yui K

#5, Kasumi

 Her December 2022 photobook certainly had some mouth watering pics but that first one above has always been my #1 with her and like so many other things it's hard to explain why. Am writing this up a day early as my laptop is working somewhat well and that doesn't happen often enough these days, don't know what it will be but am hoping to squeeze another post in and did it work out?(yes!) For the second year in a row Miku is the youngest woman to make the list, last year she was in the number two position and a drop of two spots isn't all that bad. It's also her second year in a row being my #1 active J-Pop Idol and a few times have mentioned that Miku truly did have a chance on being my all time Idol but doubt if that will now happen. 

 Which is only because I have been weening myself off of Idols and J-Pop, sure many viewers have noticed. Am getting too old to follow such young gals, Miku is just 22 in age but has always acted a few years older, she's also one interesting and talented woman. Plus I am getting so tired of the same old cycles which groups do and also of so many graduations, in the future there won't be many posts for current Idols but if you're a Miku fan don't worry as I will always do posts for her, I like her immensely and to finish in the top four two years in a row is quite an achievement..

 Did say the first photo in the post was my favorite of her though the one right above isn't far behind, whewwww!!!! The 2024 'Nao Year' ended on November 30th, Miku had none posts for the year which is a decent number but seven less than the year before. That's one reason for dropping two spots and the main reason was that she had only two posts after May but had done so much early in to finish so high on the list, for a while she was in the battle to be my #1 of the year! But like so many others after May Miku wasn't that busy and have wondered why did that happen with most women in the fourth to tenth positions?

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 At least Miku did show signs of life as she did have a post in both September and October. It's not a spoiler as most know who my #1 fave of the year will be, she too has the name of Miku and will admit I do like this one much more 😍, in a way I wish she didn't come off as being so perfect! Have a lot of things for today, a few older pics but for the most part the photos will be from the past month or so and first up are these recent pics from her IG page which she also posts at the Hina blog.

 Hina has four members graduating within a month of each other and have never seen that before, as mentioned members leaving groups is one huge reason my interest in J-Pop has really waned. The bottom four photos above are for two of the grad concerts and still unsure if I will do any posts for them. Both are second generation members like Miku is so you have to wonder how much longer will she be staying with Hina? I would think for a while, she does do a lot of modeling and does appear at all of those large fashion shows but would like to see more acting and it's been a while since a Hina drama. Speaking of modeling Miku has been a model with the Bis magazine for over four years but doesn't appear in as many of their issues as she once did. Here's some recent pics from a photo shoot as she will be in their January edition, there will be a video of it at the bottom.

 Have a small batch here of Hina group cards, this finishes off the ones that I had which weren't posted but there may be more soon for the group's latest single. Right after those eight cards are four others for the group's 'Mysterious Library' game and those promo pics are always so terrific.

 One more small batch of Miku game cards which are her November ones for 'Uni's on Air', seems they're releasing these pics on a regular basis again at the game site.

 Miku is popular here as she does have a large fan base but have noticed the view counts for her posts have dwindled and wonder why? It is true there aren't new gravure pics but that's fine by me and sure most other fans, I think her posts are among the best for any woman. So if you want some gravure pics here's a few autographed ones from her "Compass" photobook which was released exactly two years ago. These special photos came out after the book's release and will we ever see a second book from Miku(?).... or any other member?

 On the first day of a month at the Hina site the members post a new pic and message, these are Miku's that go from December back until June.

 Thirteen days to go until Christmas, don't have any new Miku pics for this year's holiday but she has plenty from the past and more than any other Hina member as I could have had twice this amount!

 Though I do prefer older women, say 28+ in age, will always make an exception for Miku 😍 and can only think of a handful of gals who I would rather have stuffed in my stocking! For 2021/22 Miku had more mag spreads than any other Hina member, that continued on until the Summer of 2023 but since then the amount of them has decreased which is mainly because the 4G members have been getting such a push. Which is a shame as Miku's spreads are second to none even though they don't contain gravure pics, here's her final solo spread to date that's from the October 16th issue of Weekly Shonen and bet she's been their cover girl times.

 Most of the bottom pics above were bonus ones from the photo shoot. This will wrap things up for after doing 26 posts for Miku the last two years there isn't all that much left to say about her. Will end off with some super duper photos plus after them is Miku's new Bis video and coming up in two days will be the post for the third position.