Didn't want to do it but had a strong inkling I would be taking today off, am in kind of a blahish state and the post I was getting a bit excited to do probably can't be finished for another day. That post will be for my current top Morning Musume member Maria, would put her second on my all time list of MM face members with Mizuki being #1 and today's honoree in the third position. Doesn't happen often but in June had a post for all three women and I do miss having posts for Hello Project groups and their members. While the amount of posts for the three '46' groups leave Hello Project in the dust have always said I much prefer their songs and also the gals so wish they did have more exposure. In a way they do as Morning Musume has had two new variety shows and I have viewed many of them as they are subbed in English and would anyone want to see recaps of those. This is the fourth Sayumi photobook I've reposted and about the 25th overall one that has been done this year. I used to have a bad habit of cutting books in half to make two posts when one was plenty so that's a reason for the reposts. Also reviving the memory of some older faves who may have been forgotten about and you wouldn't think so but Sayumi's posts have always been very popular, actually most for MM are.
While I was working on that post for Maria, which will be done in the next day or so, noticed she had been at a birthday party on the 13th. Those two photos above are from it and on the 13th Sayumi hit the oldish age of 36, it doesn't make her ancient but in a way it does as I can't think of many other of my favorite J-Pop Idols who are that old. At the beginning of the year Sayumi announced she would be retiring after her birthday and it's mainly because of some health issues. So I said once I find out more details about it would be doing a regular post or two for her, seems the official retirement date will be August 14th. Sayumi is doing a mini farewell tour and though she's been gone from Morning Musume almost eleven years she still has a huge amount of fans and include me as one of them.
Not sure how I will work those two posts out, both will have a variety of things so give me a bit of time to make sure they're ultra terrific for they could be her final posts ever here. So perhaps a post at the end of this month and one about a week after her August 14th farewell concert will be the tentative plan for those two posts. May also do one more repost of an older book but for now am thinking this is it for that mini project. While with Morning Musume Sayumi released eleven regular photobooks, this was her final one with the group that came out on October 26, 2014. A month later Sayumi graduated at the age of 25 and at the time held the record for being with the group the longest. That record was close to 4,300 days and since then two members have set a new standard. For this final book while a member Sayumi traveled to Okinawa for the photo shoot and seems 80% of the Hello Project books have been set there. She did have one solo book that came out in 2018 titled "Dream", that's Sayumi's most popular post ever here. This book contains 86 photos and while I'm not going to count the pics think this had more gravure photos than any other of her books. Do have a bonus for today as in those other two posts for the book didn't include a video from the photo shoot but will for this post and it's after the pics, I think it's such a superb video and recommend it for Sayumi fans!
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