Mizuki Fukumura: Her exquisite and heart attack inducing.... "Last Scene" photobook!!!!

 

 As I was writing out that heading it occurred to me didn't Mio Imada also have a photobook back in 2020 with the same "Last Scene" title? For her the book was her final set of gravure pics and didn't she have so many. posts in the period of 2017-21? She sure did but like other old time faves may never have another post here but her career is going well. EDIT: A few minutes after writing that up recalled her final book was titled "Last Shot". This makes it two posts for Mizuki in exactly a month and that hadn't happened for years though would be surprised if she did have another in 2025. Two posts ago did say my top J-Pop Idols were from SKE, at least the most alluring to my eyes. A close second would be the gals from the Hello Project groups which includes C-ute, Morning Musume, Juice=Juice, Angerme and Up! Up! Girls along with a few solo artists. Besides how terrific so many look I really enjoy the more down to earthness about them, at times some gals from the '46/48' groups can be a bit uppity. However all of my favorites have left those groups save for one and seeing as how I love doing lists should do something for the H!P members. Perhaps a list of my top dozen, as much as I adore Mizuki she may only finish fourth on the list but is my top Morning Musume member. Had she been busier Mizuki just may have ended up being my #1 H!P member which for a decade has been a C-ute member and it's now almost the eighth anniversary of them disbanding.

 What I really miss is the monthly Hello Project Digital book series, they had 207 editions but that ended in September 2021 and why didn't other groups have those? Mizuki appeared in at least six volumes which would contain about a hundred outtake pics from a photobook shoot. This book could be named "Last Scene" for a reason as will it be Mizuki's final set of gravure pics? No for a month ago she did have a semi gravure spread which was in her last post but perhaps the title means it's her final photobook. This was Mizuki's eighth, she did have a graduation book come out two months after this book. Which was released on October 30, 2023 and that was Mizuki's 27th birthday, the following month she graduated from Morning Musume. After a well deserved long vacation she has returned as last month she had her first magazine spread after graduating plus did release her first solo single. Mizuki is also working for the Hello Project agency, think she trains newbies and does many other Idol activities for she was one of those for over a dozen years! On to the book which contains 110 pics, the photo shoots took place in Hawaii and also around Tokyo Tower. Every book of Mizuki's is truly stupendous and if I had to rank them probably couldn't as all are breathtaking to the Nth degree! However this could be her best ever book and did notice Mizuki did lose some weight as the years went on. Though Hello Project gals aren't as popular as the Idols here from Nogi, Hina, AKB, etc. her posts are and would say she's in the top five as far as the most popular Idols here go. Didn't see a video on YT for the photo shoot but there was one for I have it so perhaps I could do a post somewhat soon that would include many screenshots from it.... or have I already?