Ruka Kitano: Her one day belated.... Happy 26th Birthday post....

 

 For some reason May is a month where so many of my favorite women turn a year older yet think this will be the only 'Birthday post' for the month. No big deal as a birthday post is no different than any other one and just try to do a post right around the celebration. So this being the only birthday post for May means that my other faves haven't had much to post about it and I must sound like a broken record saying that but it is the truth and is a reason why I just took a mini vacation.

 Gulp, don't think she needs to point out certain assets as our eyes had already drifted there!!!! That mini break meant one less post in May for Ruka so will have three for her in June and what a favorite she's become with you viewers. But Ruka has been a long time under the radar fave woman of mine since about 2019 but back then only had her pics in SKE group posts. When Ruka graduated a year ago felt that would be it for her and sadly we may never hear from her again. And I was way off base with my prediction and am glad about that as Ruka has suddenly become very popular which is because of her gravure work. Wonder why more ex-Idols don't choose that route as it's made some members from Nogi and AKB quite popular and has opened the doors for a career resurgence. By the end of the week will have a post for an ex-Nogi gal who also has been doing much more gravure modeling and just released her second photobook.

 Of all the ex-Idols who have become gravure models Ruka's photos have been the most daring/revealing and I was surprised at how much she's bared but then again how can we complain?!!!! Will make this a semi quickie post, not too many sections but there will be about a hundred new pics. What has become so common these days with graduated J-Pop Idols is opening a fan club and some seem to be very popular. Such as Ruka's as yesterday she held an event for the members to celebrate her birthday and it was also a photo shoot session for the Maly Moon site which are the top pics.

 Still can't believe Ruka doesn't have her own Ja.wiki page yet and no fan has started one for her yet? I would do so but this keyboard doesn't type in Japanese but have been able to get info about her here and there. Besides gravure modeling Ruka has also done regular modeling plus has been in a few stage plays this year, her prior six posts for the year have much bio info. Another thing I can't explain is why the SKE group cards saw such a decrease of them after 2019, this mini batch finishes off 2020.

 Ruka has appeared in so many magazines since last September which is about the time she began her gravure career. However she hasn't has any new spreads in close to two months but beginning in June will have about four spreads come out in the month. Do have a few older Ruka spreads to post which haven't been seen here before with this first one being from the March 4th issue of Flash.

 That was a way too small spread so will have another from the Flash magazine and this slightly larger set is from their March 18th edition.

 Welllllll, seeing as how those above weren't too huge will have one more spread that's from the January 23rd issue of Big Comic Spirits and think it was Ruka's first time as the cover girl.

 Will end off with this ultra fabulous digital book that was released on February 3rd by the Shukan Post magazine but there was no mag spread to promote it. The pictorial starts off a bit conservative but it ends up being perhaps Ruka's top set of pics outside of the two versions of her regular photobook. These kinds of pictorials won't be stopping for a while as I still have four more books from the past three months to post!!!! This set contains 61 photos and even the non-gravure pics get a 10/10 from me, the only complaint I have is the lack of videos from Ruka's photo shoots as there was none for this book. But there is a mini one for the above spread and why wasn't it longer????