Nao's top ten Faves for 2025: Position #3, the incomparable and demurely seductive 𝒀𝒖𝒊 𝑲𝒐𝒃𝒂𝒚𝒂𝒔𝒉𝒊!!!!

 

 

 Previous Positions: Didn't do official posts for the first two on the list, #10 was Iori and in the ninth spot was Yuzuha. Below are the links to the all of the other positions and getting tougher each year to get more women eligible but the quality for 2025 is as high as ever.

#8, Mai Shinuchi .... #7, Miku T .... #6, Nene .... #5, Ruka Kitano

#4, Nashiko

 Was going to take the day off from posting and work on the next two positions for the countdown, could stretch it out but there is no suspense this year for who will be my #1 Queen for the second time in three years. The third and second positions haven't been too busy since early November but both did enough for 2025 to warrant finishing so high. The yearly fave's list is of course for who my top women were for a year such as 2025, try not to let what they've done in prior years sway me. But will admit if someone is a long time favorite of mine it will help her out whether it's breaking a tie or even just making the list. You could say Yui has been helped out the last two years more than anyone making the fave's list and there's a huge reason for that as she's so close to being my number one woman of all time! 😍

 A few times in prior 2025 posts did say why Yui 😍 may finish in the top five for the third time in four years and have also said how this was the year we saw a comeback and/or resurgence of a few of my long time favorites. Have told the story of how after Yui graduated from Keya(Sakura) in early February 2024 she disappeared for over six months and not a beep was heard from her. Have confessed I was so down in the dumps with the possibility of her retiring and couldn't understand why someone with so much talent would slither away silently. But in late August 2024 Yui did make a semi-comeback, she did do a bit of modeling and attended a few of those larger fashion shows but still wasn't nearly as busy as she was while with Keya, meanwhile the time had zoomed ahead to March of this year.

 March was nine months ago and since then Yui has had eleven posts plus has been so much busier than she had been. She released her first ever mini album which did hit #5 on the charts, did appear on many TV music shows to promote it and gave many interviews. Yui also has continued modeling and appearing at those large fashion shows so compared to 2024 the last nine months has been a 'comeback' for Yui and that helped her out immensely when it came time to decide what position she should be in. Do wish she picked up on her acting and began to appear in magazines again but all in all would consider 2025 to have been a semi-terrific year for Yui. It's not always the amount of posts which determine a position though they do help. When a woman is constantly on my mind and I'm checking up on her everyday for new activities such as was the case for Yui that's also a huge positive. The last five weeks have been a bit quiet and perhaps late Autumn, early Winter is Yui's worst time of the year. She was so quite during this stretch in 2024 and as mentioned for the previous five weeks, it was also at this time in 2021 when she returned from a three month hiatus.

 For well over five years that's been my #1 photo of all time and probably always will be(!), may make a request to have that on my tombstone!!!! Another thing I've said quite often is how Yui 😍 is the most likable woman I do posts for and I enjoy doing these for her over anyone else so she does have many positives that sadly many others may not notice. For Yui's posts have always been lukewarm popular at best, can understand a reason being a lack of gravure photos but not many women can top the ones from  her two books. Plus Yui's modeling pics are truly second to none along with a few other positives and being such an easy girl to root for. So while there's not a huge amount of new pics for today that fact of her older posts not receiving a massive amount of views means these pics could be brand new to most of you reading this and if so check out her older posts. In June Yui hit the milestone of a hundred posts, that hadn't been done in over three years. What makes that impressive is that almost all of Yui's posts have been solo ones in this vein, certain members of Nogi and Hina have inflated totals because of being in so many group posts but that was never the case with Keya gals.

 The record for consecutive years making the fave's list is seven, this makes it six years for Yui and she's tied an old-Keya mate for having the second longest ever streak. Since 2020 her positions have been tenth, eleventh, first, third, sixth and now third again. That's an an average position of 5.7 which is very impressive and that's with the first two years being a bit low. That tenth spot in year one should have been a bit higher, when she was eleventh it was the year she took a three month hiatus. Plus Yui was in the sixth position back in the Summer of 2022 when the second 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list was done. The next list will be start in about nine months, Yui 😍 does have an excellent chance at being my #1 woman but will need to amp up her activities a bit and hope she's reading this!

 Let's finally get to things, at times when I get writing about Yui everything around seems to disappear and she's the only thing on my mind at the time. First off are these photos from the last five weeks from Yui's IG page, many are some bonus ones from the making of her 2026 calendar. That will be her first ever calendar, not sure if she'll be having a regular event for it but does have something planned for her fan club and ex-Idols having clubs has become much more common over the last 2-3 years. Yui did release her first mini album this year and did perform on many TV shows. But wonder if she's given a performance for her fan club as that's an event I would love to see, the best part would be if she strapped on a guitar and played a few older Keya tunes!

 Yui has been a model for the andGirl site since March 2023, the pics she has at their site are always stupendous but wish there were more. This small batch is from the past month and how about that first photo?! In the past Yui did a lot of modeling for With and their line of OL attire, she looked so tremendous in those pics so why not model for at least one other company?

 Here's a few other ultra fabulous 2025 photos from the andGirl site, it's nice to show more reasons why someone finished as high as she did on the fave's list and don't these rate an A+++++++?!!!!

 Yui has been appearing at this large fashion shows this year, the major ones are in and around Tokyo. On December 6th she appeared at the Winter 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show in Hiroshima, those shows tend not to get as much media coverage so this is it for photos but nice to see she's still up and about.... was just thinking, it's been four months since her first mini album and will we see a second in the upcoming year?

 Of the three '46' groups Keya seemed to have the fewest group cards, below is it for December and/or Winter but on the bright side many of these had never been in posts. I was looking at her older cards and after the name change to Sakura the cards improved so much, those cards compared to Nogi and Hina are so much better and it's a shame there weren't more of them.

 It being just four days to Christmas think I'm required to have holiday pics in these posts, most below have been seen before but four are brand new. You never see ex-Idols have their own collection of cards and am surprised no one has thought of that. I'm a big fan of these cards and need to investigate my collection a bit more closely as there has to be more older cards that have never been in posts.

 I don't have to work on Yui's posts too hard for my photo folder of her is so gigantic but then again it makes it hard to figure out what has and hasn't been in posts. But as I said earlier her posts aren't that popular so even if things have been in previous posts bet many of you reading this have never seen them. Such as this smallish set from the March 2017 issue of EX-Taishu, the photo shoot probably took place 2-3 months before so these pics are about nine years old!

 While that was one of her first ever solo spreads while with Keya this set from the March 2024 issue of BLT was Yui's final spread while a member of the group.

 Yousti is the stage name Yui uses while performing, it's a combination of her name and an Ostrich! I thought her mini album was solid though wish it rocked out more but least the songs were upbeat and she did write the lyrics for at least four songs. There were a few videos from the album and also some that featured some of the behind the scenes action. My top song off the album was "Fake-Perfect" and it's easy enough to find on YT, below are some screenshots from it and she looks better than A-OK to me! The album was released on August 27th, at the time Yui was 25 in age but less than two months later celebrated birthday #26.

 We've hit the end and coming in was a bit worried about this post but it did turn out to be the best to date or least to me. Will end off with many sparkling Yui photos, keep hoping these will garner her new fans but it sadly never seems to work out! There is a YT channel for her music which she uses the stage name of Yousti. After the pics is a new video released two weeks ago of Yui appearing at some events back in September to promote the album. To me it was quite a fun video and new superlatives need to created to describe her overly perfect looks 😍..... WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!!!!