Nao Furuhata: Her overly sizzling new "Flash" digital book plus more sweets....

 

 Have talked on occasion about my top photos of all time, the second above wouldn't make my top ten but it wouldn't be too far off.... WOWOWOWOW!!!! Here's another on my long list of 'Could have been massive favorites but will never be' though it's posts like this one which really keeps my enthusiasm up! It's been 364 days since I did Nao's last post, could have done one last Autumn but it may have had only forty new photos and this post has a whopping hundred of them of Nao with just about every one new for here. No, this blog wasn't named after her but Nao has lived up to having that name very well!

 This September 15th Nao will be hitting the age of thirty, soon there may not be anyone below that age. That's the same date as a huge AKB member of mine who became more popular after leaving them. I was just looking at that Birthday List and what a huge amount of my faves were born between September 10th and 19th. Sure many recall that Nao had been with SKE and I've said very often how their members were the hottest of all J-Pop Idols, they would edge out the first generation of NMB. Nao left the group at the end of September 2022, she's been very busy since then though the activities won't make her a household name but there's nothing wrong with that. Since leaving SKE Nao has had one solo single, a few concerts, hosts a radio show and was in one drama but it's stage plays which have kept her busy as she's been in over a dozen since leaving the group. Nao also seems to have a yearly digital book and all have been sweltering to me, just wish she had more than just one a year. But in 2025 she did release her second regular photobook so let me work on getting that, just noticed that two weeks ago another digital book was released.

 Seeing as how these posts for Nao and a few other women come too infrequently try to pack them with a little bit of everything and that's the case for today! Wonder if Nao has many fans here, thought her previous three solo posts would have received quite a few views but that hasn't been the case. First off are these photos from her IG page, she doesn't post too many there but does have a fan club. That bottom pic is for her 2026 calendar and how about that first pic plus the three right after?! They're from the photo shoot of Nao's new digital book and that first photo could be my top pic of the year to date, whew!!!!

 Up next is a small batch of SKE cards and still don't know why there were so few from 2019-21. The first eight are for Nao's September 2022 SKE graduation, the others are for Valentine's and not enough of them. What may be forgotten if you are a Nao fan is what an excellent Saxophonist she is, she was even the cover girl for two sax magazines.

 Have four Nao magazine spreads from last year but think I'll just have two for today. She does have that new digital book that was just released so I'm hoping to get that soon and have another terrific post for Nao, those other two spreads will be in that post. First off is this set that's nine months old and is from the May 16th issue of Young Gangan, the woman in the next post was the cover girl for the magazine.

 Second up is this way too small set from the September 2 edition of Flash, it was promoting Nao's second photobook. The other two Nao spreads are with the same magazine but like this one weren't large enough.

 We've quickly hit the end and I need a few more easier posts such as this one, perhaps easier but still one that's chock full of fabulous pictures! "Honto no Watashi" is the title of this digital book that the Flash magazine released two weeks ago, it features outtake pics from Nao's second photobook. There was no video for this book but after the pics is a short one for an earlier Nao digital book with WPB, like too many other ex-Idols she doesn't have many gravure videos compared to how many books and magazine spreads she has.