Yui Kobayashi: Her semi-joyous 'Happy 26th birthday post'.... 𝒕𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒔 𝒂 𝒋𝒐𝒚....

 

 After twenty consecutive days of posting today was almost the second in a row without one, used up my cache of things sooner than I expected. Wanted to wait a few extra days before doing this post but doubt if many new things will be happening, if anything does that'll be okay as that'll be the start of a November post. That title is a bit odd but right on the money, of course to me any time I can do a post for Yui 😍 it's a joy as there's no woman I've enjoyed doing posts for more over the last six years. The semi-joyous part is that this won't be much of a special post as there aren't too many new photos even though October was somewhat of a busy month for her.

 Sigh, have moaned about it before which is what a shame it will be if we never see any more dazzling photos like the ones above or the many more you'll be seeing in this post. Not complaining as Yui did leave us with many sizzling pics from her two photobooks but when you look as perfect as she does....., sigh again. But 2025 has been a bit of a rebound year for Yui 😍 and for a while did wonder in 2024 whether she was thinking of leaving show biz and would that have devasted me! Slowly but surely Yui has become busier this year, she's appeared at most of those larger fashion shows, does model for a site and did release her first mini album which was kind of successful. But Yui hasn't made her comeback a full blown one yet, would like to see her appear in magazines again plus make a return to acting. But least her activities have increased, this is her eleventh post of the year and there's been at least one for eight consecutive months so Yui's been busier than most other gals I post about.

 Though there's not a large amount of new things for today in a way there is because of something negative. Which is of Yui's posts not being overly popular here, she has never been a huge favorite of most visitors but did or perhaps still does have a solid fan base here. Only three of her last twenty posts have attracted more than 600 views and that is so shocking in a depressing way. Most women's posts keep getting many views as time goes on, perhaps they'll have 500 in the first two months after a post has been published. Then when I check back eight months later that post has reached a thousand or more views, that's very common here. But not for Yui, this post may get 450 views in this next month and when I check back a year from now it'll only be up to 550! So what I meant about new pics is that while there may not be a huge amount of new ones for today most would be new to you viewers as her posts these days draw so few viewers. Wonder why that is, probably a lack of new gravure photos and if so that's been why so many others have seen a decrease in their posts too. EDIT: Out of curiosity did check on Yui's older posts and up until February 2023 most of her posts did receive 1,000+ views. But since then only two have and that's a shame as you've missed many terrific posts. As most know I don't care how popular someone is when it comes to doing posts, actually the less popular they are has made me work even harder to change that and while not often enough on occasion it has worked.

 Least someone is enjoying this post and is she watching me slowly type away? Slowly for when I gape at a photo of Yui 😍 it's hard to avert my eyes from them!!!! In eleven months my third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list will be announcing who my number one woman will be. For now it won't be be Yui and though I try to stay unbiased when it comes to lists I tend to favor her over any other woman. But she will need to amp up her a activities a bit and having a digital book could be the icing on the cake though doubt if that would happen, for now she has a solid lock on the number two position. However as far as books or gravure modeling go why would it be doubtful, two ex-Nogi gals have done quite a bit of gravure modeling since graduating and none of us saw that happening! But on a bright note did say at least Yui has become busier this year and as long as she stays active that's good enough for me. As far as being busy goes that's something her former close Keya mate hasn't done and it appears she's slipped into retirement in a very quiet way.... sigh once again, that pair had that argument three years ago and still haven't stopped.....

 

 Birthday posts are rarely different than regular posts but do try to make them a bit larger. So that should be the case for today and perhaps I should take tomorrow off so this post can remain in the spotlight for an extra day. First off are these recent photos from her IG page, think Yui saves many for her fan club site. Not sure but think in a week she'll be having an event for her birthday and hope so as to date all she's had are online sessions with the members. 

 Not too many IG pics above but more than I expected, Yui wasn't a consistent poster at the Keya 'Diary' blog so am used to that. What I'm not used to is the lack of Yui pics from a fashion show, she would often have the most of any Keya or Hina member. Not so since she graduated so she only had these four from the October 11th 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show held in Kitakyushu though that show isn't one of their major ones.

 The strolls that models take on the catwalks at these huge fashion shows is usually so short, very often not even forty seconds even though they may have traveled hundreds of models for something like the above show. On October 18th the Autumn 'Girls Award' show was held at the Makuhari Messe Hall in Chiba, that was a much closer trip for Yui who I think still resides in Saitama which is her hometown. Her stroll lasted only 25 seconds but that's the norm for these shows but least she did look oki-doki while on the Dazzlin' stage and doesn't that adjective fit her to a T!!!! The bottom pic is from the show and there was a way too mini reunion with some of her ex-Keya mates. One member will be leaving soon but for the most part Keya's second generation has been fairly stable, much more than their first generation was. But aside from these events which don't happen often there's been so little to post about the 2G gals which is why there's been so few posts for them the past year.

 To attend those shows you usually have to be a model with a fashion site or a magazine, Yui is with andGirl. Have some recent pics below from their site but not all that many, think the reason was because she had been appearing on a lot of September shows to promote her first mini album so didn't have time for any photo shoots.

 Yui is be the cover girl for the newest issue of andGirl but don't have that magazine yet so there's something to look forward to. Before this latest gig Yui had been a model for the With magazine and fashion site for almost five years. It's a shame she and a current Nogi member are no longer models for them as their pics were fabulous. Of course there's no new mag spread for today so will go back exactly five years with this With spread from October 2020. Know many readers prefer gravure spreads but ones like this are so super duper to me along with her regular modeling pics.

 More from the magazine and some November/December 2020 modeling pics from their site. Yui usually modeled for their OL collections and doesn't she look so snazzy in that kind of attire? She sure does so am hoping another site or two will scoop Yui up to model their OL lines.

 Of course there's no new birthday pics but hopefully for her next post. Have many older ones from prior years and two are new for here, I didn't notice Yui right away while she was with Keya as most of the attention was towards other members. But after six months or so Yui 😍 did catch my eye and as they say the rest is history as she's gone from being a non descript seventeen year old to such a ravishing 26 year old and now I'm feeling my age. It also just popped into my head how few there from 2017 that I still post about consistently, a graduate from both Nogi and SKE but is there anyone else?

 Yui's birthday is only eight days before Halloween but she's never had many pics for that day, I've looked high and low for this scant amount and that could be it.

 There were some Keya cards in that above batch and those will comprise this next set also. Used up my Autumn cards already as Keya never had a regular monthly series of cards but that's not a bad thing for today. For I have a huge amount of older cards from the group's 'Keyaki no Kiseki' game which translates over to 'The Story of Keyakizaka46'. The game was an online one that ended a little over five years ago when the group changed their name to Sakura. To me these could be the best cards of any '46' group, some below have been posted before but half are new for here, these were released in 2018/19. Also found many older cards of Hina when they had been members of Keya and remember those ancient times? Viewing those cards revived some memories and the sad part about getting those cards is that I may never have a chance to post them.

 We've finally hit the end, this was a large post but didn't count how many photos there were. For the ending have a vast amount of beyond perfect pics of Yui, 😍 the word perfect isn't good enough for her and I need to hit the drawing board for some new adjectives!!!! There's enough pics for this post so that a video isn't needed, there aren't any new ones and she needs to open her own YT channel. That top pic has been my #1 of all time for almost six years, as far as adjectives go there's no way any of them can describe it's overly perfection accurately and once I began gaping at it seems hours pass before I can turn my eyes away.... noticed I use the word perfection quite often in a Yui post and wonder why that is....