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Hajimemashite minna san....welcome to my site on my fave Japanese Pop Culture likes such as dramas, movies, magazine scans, promo events etc. Mainly concentrate on my faves...Risa Watanabe... Miku Tanaka... Yui Kobayashi....Miyuki Watanabe.... Nene Shida....if you're a fan at all of any of them then you've come to the rightplace(!) but many others are featured here besides them. Do mainly quick reviews on things I've watched, try to make the reviews brief, quick to read through with not too many spoilers, just whether they're good or bad and why I thought so plus whether you may find them enjoyable. Many, many screenshots are included from everything I've watched plus any video trailers if they're available. Hope you find something that interests you, don't hesitate to comment, arigato gozaimasu!
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Saturday, March 1, 2025
Hinako Kitano: There's no woman who I have missed doing posts for more than her....
This makes it a trifecta of Nogi posts, sure that hasn't happened often and perhaps never! February was such a terrific month here for posts, to me they were bigger and better than ever plus I did many more than I had expected. One other fabulous thing was that so many of those posts were for such long time favorites of mine and for many of the women those posts will be continuing on for a while. But as far as favorite woman go it's tough to top Hinako 😍 for on my 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list done 2 1/2 years ago she finished in the second position!!!! I have been so head over heels for Hinako since I first began to notice her almost a decade ago, she's had some truly breathtaking gravure photos but even without them she still would have been one of my all time favorites.
Besides that impressive showing on my all time list Hinako 😍 was third on the 2022 yearly faves list, she also had my #1 photobook for that year and she's in a virtual tie for being my top ever Nogi member. What I have noticed with so many Idols is that when they leave their groups the first six to eight months are often very busy for them. Then it seems the activities begin to taper off, is it more of their decision to slow down or do less job offers come in? That's a good question and while I don't have a definite answer to it that was the scenario for Hinako after she left Nogi. She had the lead female role in a web drama and while the show wasn't too good having a large role was a good start. Hinako also did a lot of modeling for one fashion site and did appear in a pair of stage plays, by then she had been gone from Nogi for over eight months and that's when her period of quietness began.
It may seem hard to believe because Hinako is one of my all time favorite women but this is only her second post in 25 months! Just checked and that's unbelievable to me also but it is true and sadly there was nothing I could do about that. Hinako did have a medium sized role in a drama that aired from January to March 2024 but didn't do any more acting the rest of the year nor did she appear at any events. Hinako wasn't one of Nogi's huge stars but she did have a decent sized fan base and her posts here have usually been popular. So wonder why she did so little over the last year and don't know if it was her own decision or the job offers were few and far between? Hinako does love animals, especially dogs but over the last few years her passion has become horses. Not just regular ones but racing horses and she does have a semi regular tabloid column where she picks the winners. She has hit a few large jackpots so perhaps that's her main source of income which would be a first for any woman I have done posts for.
If I could choose just one graduated Idol to become a FT gravure model without a doubt it would be Hinako 😍, she has such heart attack inducing figure and really blossomed after the age of seventeen. Wonder if she ever thought about doing that kind of work and her two photobooks did have combined sales of 110,000 copies sold so she would have many fans out there willing to purchase her digital or regular books. Not many new pics for today, about 35 in all but also have some golden oldie things and sometimes breaking the ice for someone leads to more posts. First off are these somewhat recent pics from Hinako's IG page and at one time she did post many more than this amount. You will see Hinako with two of her horse racing columns plus as I just mentioned wish she would follow in the path of her close friend in the bottom photo and do some gravure modeling....
For ex-Idols try to include some of their older group cards when possible, it being March have some for the month. Time flies for at the end of April will mark three years since Hinako left Nogi, except for one gal we haven't been hearing that much about the second generation members.
Did just say time flies and that is one true statement for in a little over four months Hinako will be hitting the age of 29! Before long there won't be many posts for those below the age of thirty which isn't a bad thing as I have been preferring woman slightly older. Four months after Hinako left Nogi she was hired to be the main model for the Vannie U fashion site. Her pics for them were so superb and bet she had over a hundred of them but she didn't have any after the Spring of 2023. This small batch is from Hinako's first set of Vannie U modeling pics, to me she looked so magnificent so why hasn't she done more of this line of work?
It's been close to two years since Hinako's last magazine spread, the more this post goes on the sadder I'm getting with the lack of new things. So if there's no new ones let's have some golden oldies and though these sets have been posted before bet they're new to many of you viewers. First older spread is from the September 2021 issue of UTB, seven months later she was no longer with Nogi....
Weekly Ascii is obviously a magazine that comes out every week, it mainly has features on tech items such as laptops and phones. Usually an Idol graces their cover and most of the time it's for two consecutive weeks. Hinako had that honor for the weeks of October 4th and 11th, 2022 and since then has only had two other mini spreads. The spreads in this magazine are also smallish but I've always thought their pics rated an A++++!
Do have a batch of some super duper new photos which are from an event held at the HMV bookstore in Shibuya on February 23rd. Hinako had a fan meeting session to promote her first ever calendar which goes from April of this year to March 2026. The photo shoot took place in October, many of the pics are with horses and while at a race track Hinako did place a wager that turned out to be a huge winner(!), a million yen to be exact which is close to $6,700! Know she's hit a few other large winners so guess that's a main reason why she hasn't been working as much over the last year, below are many terrific pics from the event. The top pic is the cover and after the set is a very short video at the event.
Hinako never had any gravure photos until her first book came out at the end of 2018, even if she never had any of those breathtaking pics she still would have been close to being my #1 woman 😍 of all time! But those gravure photos did help and have to confess that I can't think of anyone with a more perfect figure, especially the photos from her second book that came out three years ago. So will end off with some of my top Hinako pics but there are hundreds of them(!), sure many of you have gaped at these before but bet they're brand new to many of you viewers.
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