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Hajimemashite minna san....welcome to my site on my fave Japanese Pop Culture likes such as dramas, movies, magazine scans, promo events etc. Mainly concentrate on my faves...Risa Watanabe... Miku Tanaka... Yui Kobayashi....Miyuki Watanabe.... Nene Shida....if you're a fan at all of any of them then you've come to the rightplace(!) but many others are featured here besides them. Do mainly quick reviews on things I've watched, try to make the reviews brief, quick to read through with not too many spoilers, just whether they're good or bad and why I thought so plus whether you may find them enjoyable. Many, many screenshots are included from everything I've watched plus any video trailers if they're available. Hope you find something that interests you, don't hesitate to comment, arigato gozaimasu!
Over the years have had a few saviors who I can usually depend on when the going gets tough for creating a post. The last few years it's often been Akari 😍 to the rescue and I can't think of anyone more I would want to give me CPR for that rescue and hope many of you haven't fled for the hills yet! In the post below this one did say that woman has had such a strong beginning to the 2025 'Nao Year' and is going at a pace to have 31 posts for the year which would shatter the record of 26. After a slowish start Akari too is going at a strong pace, she now has nine posts for the year and five have been since March 1st so her current pace would mean 22 posts for her. Back in 2023 she did lead the pack with 23 and seems like a distant memory of when it was close to impossible to have posts for her, that was before 2022.
I do include many of the pics from a Bomb photo shoot that took place in early 2024 in these posts. Three of them are above and and that was my number one magazine spread for 2024, whenever you see Akari dressed in that alluring red lingerie it is from that Bomb spread and video. Did do a better scan of the magazine and will wait until next month to post it again as it came out last May.
A few early contenders to be my #1 Queen of the year have faded away slightly the past month but it is a long time until the list will be created which I do at the end of November. For now the gal in the next post would be my number one but hot on her heals is Akari who as many know was my top woman for 2023. Plus she's had a feat which no other has accomplished which is being in the second position twice which happened last year and 2018 so as most have come to realize what a long time favorite of mine Akari 😍 has been and soon will anointed as my all time number one woman though in a way it happened a while ago. This being Akari's fifth post in seven weeks there isn't much new news(!) to add in tbut do wish these posts would start to become a bit more popular though they have seen a decent increase on views over the last two years.
This will be your usual Akari post, have a good amount of brand new pics along with some oldies that many have never been posted before along with some encores of things which I've had before. Seeing as how she's just so-so popular here at best sure many reading this have never seen most of the oldies that will be included for today. Such as this batch which I did post once but over two years ago which are SKE cards for Akari's graduation back in 2022. The cards say September 24th though the pair of shows didn't take place for another month.
SKE is based in Nagoya, Akari hails from nearby Aichi and she does so much to promote her hometown which really impresses me as she could be like most (ex)Idols and move to Tokyo to further her career. In Akari's last post had a new pic of her with a Chunchi Dragons cap, they're a team in the Nippon Central League and she is a huge fan of them. Did check out the team's history and at one time they were a semi-powerhouse from the late 90's until the early 2010's but haven't won a pennant since 2011. But Akari is no fair weather fan and perhaps what the team needs to do is invite her to throw a first pitch again, that's only happened once back on May 30, 2018. Have some pics below from that day and how about the top photo(!).... she could be my batgirl any day of the year..... wowowow!!!! At the bottom of the post will have a video of her pitch and what a jump at the end!
Nine weeks ago Akari released her second photobook, her first came out in 2018 and that was my second favorite book of the year. So though she was my top Queen for 2023 Akari has been the bridesmaid three times on lists. Have a new magazine spread that features outtake pics from the book and how I wish it was larger, this set is from the April 25th issue of Friday.
At the Friday site they did have some 'clean versions' of the above photos spread which are below and though the spreads have been too tiny Akari has appeared in that magazine four tomes this year.
Will go way back in time for one of my favorite Akari spreads which is from the April 2016 edition of Girls! so it's exactly nine years old. That was a decent magazine which often had semi gravure spreads of Idols but they ceased publishing a few years back.
Will end off with some ultra terrific photos from Akari's IG page and hard to explain why but these pics to me are close to unbeatable. Akari did post many more more than usual as these have all been added to her page the last eleven days and hard to pick out my favorite as so many are superb. A few near the bottom are from an event Akari was at ten days ago where she helped promote a new Aichi traffic safety campaign and was named as it's ambassador. The bottom two feature Akari on the "Coffee Shop Mogumogu" radio show which broadcasts on Saturdays, she hasn't had a post in a while but the woman host(Yuika) finished in the 15th position on my 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list and would love to see more of that duo together! After the 35 stupendous IG photos is a video of her throwing out that first pitch which wasn't a blazing fastball but better than most other efforts by an Idol.