Usa Hiiragi: Her overly tantalizing "Usa Usa" photobook scans

 

 If you've read most of the posts over the last three years you know how much I like the members of BababaBambi plus the group itself but the posts really slowed down for them. This is just the fourth post of the year for a member though one was for a graduate and this is Usa's first post since last August! I'm wondering if they may have hit their peak back in March 2024 when they headlined a concert at Budokan. A few months after my top member Mio 😍 left and I have been so ga-ga over her for five years. Then three new members were added but two left at the beginning of February which leaves them with five and four have been there for quite a long time. So I hope these posts for them can start increasing again and in the past they did often come in bunches. Miyu could be my top current member though Usa isn't far behind, the other three are certainly faves of mine also. In a very odd occurrence April 27th is her 22nd birthday and didn't plan for the timing of this post to work out this way. Do have that rule about not having posts for those under 22 in age but have made a few exceptions and glad I did in her case! EDIT: In a semi historical moment this is post number.... 9,000!!!!

 Those top four pics are promo/outtake ones from the photobook and they were too fabulous not to include. The posts for BababaBambi members have been semi popular and out of all members Usa's posts have had the most views so really hate when I can't do posts for popular gals but at times there's nothing I can do about it. This book was released on October 4, 2023 so am a bit late getting to it, Usa traveled to Taiwan for the photo shoot. The book was a somewhat decent seller as it was in the top ten for two weeks as far as sales go and think in those two weeks it sold around 5,000 copies. Usa's real first name is Usaki and had never posted that trivia answer before, what a short group they are as at 156 cm she's the second tallest! Enough blabbering and on to the book which contains 97 photos plus those four above but sadly there is no video from the photo shoot. Usa has appeared in a fair amount of gravure spreads and books but there's been so few videos from those.