Ruka Kitano: Her exhilarating Bomb magazine "Amai Hana" digital book and more goodies....

 

 Didn't realize that Ruka's last post was just done a week ago, seeing as how I began this may as well finish and sure no one will complain as her posts have instantly become best sellers here! This is her sixth post in eight weeks and even after today can still do at five more posts for Ruka as I have at least four books after this one and a few recent magazine spreads plus have seen that a few more will be appearing very soon. A problem I sometimes have is that when a woman has a huge amount of posts in a short amount of time there isn't much more to tell you viewers that hasn't been said already and to an extent that could be the case for today. So while Ruka has been non-stop lately with all of these gravure books and spreads she has been doing more than that as she was in a play that ended two weeks plus I think has done a bit of regular modeling. May 25th is when her 26th birthday will take place, there will be a post right around then and even one before that which will make it eight posts in three months.

 Those two pics above are from another digital book that came out in February, will have that book for her next post. Let's dive right in with things and first off are these April photos from Ruka's IG page, she doesn't post a huge amount but all are oki-doki as SKE would say! The bottom one is for her first ever fan club event that will take place on May 25th for her birthday, there's also a few pics above that from her "Nineteeeen Grrrrlz" stage play with a pair being with Mio Minato 😍 and how I hope that gigantic fave of mine also makes a return to gravure modeling....

 In March Ruka released her first ever calendar and there was a mini event for it. Another fan greeting session was held on April 20th for it and these pics are from the event with the first being the cover.

 It's getting close to a year since Ruka graduated from SKE and for so long they were right there among my favorite J-Pop groups, no lower than third and probably second. Even in front of Nogi as the singles from SKE were so much more upbeat and not nearly as fluffy, only C-ute had better singles in the period from 2011-17. However like most groups all of my top members have departed so don't follow the group as closely but every single over the last few years has been very good though not quite at the level of older songs. I still listen to J-Pop quite a bit but will confess not many current releases and mainly songs before 2020, for instance last night played a Juice=Juice album and for a mini stretch in 2018/19 they may have been my top current group. Enough blabbering and seeing as how I brought up SKE let's have an older mag spread Ruka appeared in while with them, she didn't have a vast amount of solo spreads but all were terrific and this set is from the November 2018 issue of EX-Taishu.

 Have a newer set here that's from the March 4th issue of Flash though it's way too small. Ruka did have another set with the mag two weeks later that was larger and was promoting yet another digital book which I may have for her birthday. As I've moaned about a few times in previous post is that I can't understand why she still doesn't have a Ja.wiki page.

 Now on to the Bomb magazine digital book but there was no spread to promote the book which has happened a few other times with this mag. It was released on Valentine's Day and know so many of you(me also!) would die to have Ruka bake us some sweets for that and any other day! This pictorial contains 65 dazzling pics though it could have used a bit more variety, the title "Amai Hana" roughly means Sweet Flower. Did have an older EX-Taishu spread above, Ruka is in their current issue and will have that coming up soon. After the pics is a short video from that photo shoot and get the cold shower heated up.... WOWOWOWOWOW!!!!