Iori Sagara: Who better to end off March with?!?!

 

 The answer to that post title is 'Not too many women' though I hope it's in error and another can be done before the day is out. Almost always take the final day of the month off which is tomorrow but I would like to squeeze one more in today but as of now have zero possibilities. However my photo folder is so gigantic there are times it's so hard to find things and which is why I do overlook some women for long stretches. So will work on another though am not promising it'll be successful and even if it isn't this is truly one magnificent post with over a hundred photos!!!!

 This makes it seven posts for Iori since the 'Nao Year' began on December 1st so she's qualified for the third time for my yearly faves list, she made the top ten the past two years. So her current pace is for 21 posts, last year Iori led everyone with 23 but there was a big slowdown on them for the final three months of the year. One reason is because she did need to take it a bit slower but wasn't idle as she did a few photo shoots and we don't see those pictures for a few months after the fact. I like Iori immensely but was glad we didn't hear as much from her for 3-4 months, when you do many posts for someone in a short amount of time you sadly can get a bit tired of that woman and have to confess I was getting that way with Iori's pics, perhaps you readers were too as the views for her posts were decreasing with each post. 

 On the bright side since Iori came back from that short break she's looking better than ever and don't think Nogi's management ever realized how sweltering she looked. May sound hard to believe but this July will mark seven years since leaving Nogi. What may also be hard to believe is that this June will mark just her second anniversary of becoming a gravure model and bet years ago Iori had no idea what would become of her career nor of becoming so much more popular. Let's get to things and first off are these recent pics from her IG page, there hasn't been too many from the last two months and the top one is the cover for an upcoming magazine spread.

 Just realized this is the second post in a row for a Nogi second generation member, they ended up having five for the month! At one time used to have 2G posts but of course that all ended when everyone was gone, wonder if it would be possible to revive that series and look at what the five members who don't get mentioned often are up to. As much as I adore Iori she's only my fourth favorite 2G member and that goes to show how much I liked that group of gals. Have already posted her Nogi monthly cards for March and also birthday/anniversary ones that are released in February. 

 But do have a batch below that hadn't been posted before and are cards for Iori's final two Nogi singles. The top seven are for "Synchronicity" which came out on April 26, 2018 or about seven years ago. Back before 2020 all of Nogi's singles were selling over a million copies, a few even reached 1.3 million sold. These days they get about half the sales though are still extremely popular, too many of their most liked members left and that had to affect sales and how many fans still followed them. The other seven cards are for the October 11, 2017 single "Itsuka Dekiru kara kyo Dekiru", that too sold well over a million copies. The bottom three cards are for the "My Rule" song and video, it was a tune on the single performed by the Undergirls who I think put on better shows than the Senbatsu members.

 How about one more thing from 2017 and this is an old magazine spread that I bet most have never seen or forgotten about as it's over eight years old! It's from the February 2017 issue of UTB and joining Iori is my #1 Nogi member Mai who just had a post earlier this week. In that post also had a spread with the third gal below who of course if Misa and for a long time she was my favorite Nogi member.

 Let's return to the present and have a pair of newish mag spreads though both are way too small. This first set is from the March 7th issue of Flash, think it is promoting a new digital book so why did it have only three pages? There's a second spread below which also had only three pages and is also from March 7th, that set is for Friday. The photos look so similar so wonder if those two magazines are published by the same owner which is certainly possible but had never thought about it until now.

 Seeing as how those two above spreads were so tiny how about a much larger set and this dazzling spread is from the February 25th issue of Young Champion.

 Will end off with this somewhat recent Iori digital book which to me is one of her best ever. It was released on January 31st by Wanibooks, they're not a magazine but do own a few of them and have had a book/pictorial series for well over twenty years and their sets are tough to top. This sizzling set contains seventy pics and what a shame there's no videos to go with it, as a matter of fact there hasn't been a video from any of her photo shoots for at least five months and why did they stop? So after the pics is a video for Iori's first ever regular photobook that came out last June, hadn't posted it before and there's a few others for the book which deserve to be viewed....