Ruka Kitano: Her glittering "Motto! Grapara!" photobook scans

 

 Wasn't planning on doing a third post for Ruka this month but here we are with it though this book is one of her better ones and is a regular photobook, not a digital one. The posts of new activities for my top women were coming on a consistent basis until mid-November and petered out after that, did make a recent comment about that as it's happened most months this year and why? So am having this third November post for Ruka as there was nothing else going on for today, just three more days until the 2025 'Nao Year' ends. I figure the final total for posts this year will be 420 and there is a reason for the drop which I've discussed often enough and won't do it too often in the future. But on the bright side the posts are bigger than ever, very few have less than eighty photos and that's twice the average of posts done a decade ago. So in a way the amount of photos you've viewed this year may have been the most ever but in fewer posts.

 Besides the fabulous photos am glad this post is being done for another reason. Which is that this year's faves list will begin next week and I had forgotten about it slightly so while writing this up am thinking about which positions my favorites for this year will end up at. The top two I've known for a while and after that is truly a crap shoot! Ruka was such a pleasant surprise this year with fifteen posts when I didn't expect to do any for her! She did have a three month gap with posts but she was filming a drama and came back stronger than ever so she may end up in the fifth/sixth position. Not many women were consistent this year except for the top two and that averaging a post a month is so helpful when it comes to figuring out what position someone ends up at. For instance Nene has seventeen posts for the year but just two in the last six months so she'll only end up around the eighth spot. Meanwhile Kana had eleven posts but after March they were coming at a pace of one a month and because of that steady pace she may end up second on this year's list!

 So need to finish up ranking everyone, seventeen woman are eligible but only ten or perhaps a dozen will make the list. Also need to start working on the posts as I try to make those quite large but seeing as how most of my faves have been so quiet lately those won't be all that easy to create. On to Ruka's photobook #2.5 and know that sounds strange! Her first sizzling and very revealing photobook "Furetre, Miru" was released last September 12th which was ten weeks after her graduation from SKE. Since then Ruka has had about fifteen digital books, have posted all except for one which you will see in December. During the Summer Ruka had the lead role in the web drama "Grapara!", she played the main role of Sakura who was a budding gravure model! Did skim through the first two episodes but the series was never subbed so didn't check out any other episodes and don't think that's the kind of drama which I would enjoy. In a rarity for a drama on August 29th there was a photobook released for the show and guess that would make sense as it was a show about gravure modeling. On October 30th a second and different Kindle version of the photobook was released, it has the word Motto that means More in Japanese and that's referring to the pictures. So the photobook #2.5 I mentioned was because this is a different version of a book. The beach scenes for the drama were filmed in Guam and that was the setting for this photobook which to me could be Ruka's best pics of the year. There's a total of 95 photos in the book, four above and 91 below. So in about two weeks will be back with another post which will be for the position she'll have on this year's faves list, will also have more info about Ruka's next photobook which is coming out just before Christmas.