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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....Ruka Kitano.... 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!
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Tuesday, February 3, 2026
Suzuka Tomita: Just because I can never get enough of her....
That post title is right on the money, sometimes when I get the urge to do a post for a huge favorite of mine there's nothing that can stop me! This wasn't a planned post but did say I wanted to have one for Suzuka ๐ right around Valentine's Day so am a bit early with this.... gulp, honestly lost my train of thought gaping at that above photo! As far as the group Hina46 goes this is a semi-historical post as it's the first one ever done for a graduated member! Which means it includes some pics and news since Suzuka officially left in early August, I can't believe how hard it's been trying to do posts for those who have left Hina. Many are busy but almost all are only appearing in dramas, I never see any ex-members in magazines, at events or do some other activity that would make for an interesting post. You could say the same is true for Suzuka as she hasn't been too busy but think she will soon, I just adore her to no end and when all is said and done she just may end up being my all time #1 Hina member!
But for many if not most viewers Suzuka was anything but your number one member for so long, as a matter of fact she may have been the least popular J-Pop Idol I've ever posted about! But that never stopped me from having posts for Suzuka ๐ who I've had such a crush on for at least four years, her fan base here was so small yet some did leave some positive comments about her. But the fortunes for Suzuka changed last June, after seven months without a post had five in 6 1/2 months which were all very popular. Glad to see many of you finally noticed what I've seen in Suzuka for so many years and just because these posts will be difficult to do don't want to see them cease and will try to have at least one post every three months which should be doable for the near future.
Whew, isn't she so correct with that and what a photobook it was! Had a feeling Suzuka had such a sizzling figure but not as as perfect as she looked in that book yet it was only my second favorite one for 2025(!), a Nogi member had the top book or least in my eyes she did. A few Nogi members have had a successful gravure modeling career and so didn't a Keya gal for a while, no one from Hina has tried that route and how we(I) would love to see Suzuka be the first! This is Suzuka's 20th solo post, two of her first fourteen now have over a thousand views but not the other dozen. Which means I can often have encore viewings from those posts as most readers have never seen those photos. Plus for today there has to be about 55 pics that have never been in a post so once again there may be over a hundred pics in a post, I had wanted to make them smaller this year but the opposite has happened!
Suzuka is a big Formula One racing fan and had been a reporter/co-host for some shows about the sport up until 2025. But now that she's left Hina will she continue on with any of those shows for that doesn't happen often for those who leave their groups. After a three month break from early August until November Suzuka has been much more active lately, least at her IG page she has been. The below are from the last two months, she doesn't post photos often but when Suzuka does she'll add in five or more pics, at the bottom are some from January 18th when she celebrated her 25th birthday.... sigh, once again it appears she lost my phone number to invite me, sigh....
Back in the Summer of 2023 Suzuka appeared in her first stage play which was titled "Vincenzo", it was a musical and she had the lead female role. Suzuka does have an excellent voice and wonder if she'll revive her musical career like an ex-Keya member has done.... looked and there are no pics of the duo together. Suzuka's second stage play will also be a musical which is titled "Rose" and she'll be playing the role of June. The play opens on May 6th in Tokyo and will be moving on to three cities after that. Below are two posters for the play and May is a long way off so hope we see Suzuka do a few other activities before then.
It being very close to Valentine's Day have some pics for the semi-holiday, many are from the 'Uni's on Air' web game. Often say how I would love to have a fave of mine bake me chocolate for that day but could I make that list a small one with only five women? It'd be tough but could do so, say that for Suzuka ๐ would be in that smallish group.... how my imagination is running wild!!!!
There was a Hina graduation last week and surprised Suzuka wasn't there as it was her best friend who left. Now there's only a pair of second generation members left in the group and what a shame it is as Hina for so long was more stable than any other J-Pop group. On January 18th Suzuka did hit the age of 25 and like so many of my other huge favorites looks better with each passing day. There were two birthday photos above and have more from prior years, the bottom eight are more from the 'Uni's on Air' game.
Did go a stretch without any posts for Suzuka from September 2024 to June of the following year, there really wasn't all that much going on for her and also other Hina members. But do have a few terrific group cards from 2024 that had never been posted before and here are some of them. Haven't posted many of Suzuka extremely older cards from before 2021, those may be in future posts.
Suzuka's steamy first and perhaps only photobook was released last August 5th, there was an event the following day for it and that was her final activity as a Hina member. The book sold okay but wasn't promoted enough, hadn't posted this way too small magazine spread before which is from the August 12th issue of Flash and it was the only magazine spread that promoted the book!!!!
That was a shocker to have only one spread to promote a book and that set above didn't even feature any outtake pics. Here's a much larger spread that's exactly five years old and is from the January 2021 edition of +20Sweet, that month Suzuka hit the age of twenty so this spread had celebrated that occasion.
We've hit the end and like all Suzuka posts it's been a fabulous one! On January 1st did the post for Suzuka's photobook, always wait three months before posting them for an Idol. To date it has 1,100 views in 34 days which is a lot but thought it'd be higher, if you've missed the post it's still in that section for most popular posts of the last month so just click on that to view the book. Have featured many outtake pics from the book but have close to a dozen below that had never been posted before, sprinkled in a few others and to me Suzuka ๐ is... is.... is...., can't think of any more (perfect)words to describe her, whew!!!! Shame there's no video for the book and who will be the first '46' member to have one? There's so few really decent videos on YT of most members so after the pics in one from last May from 'Showroom' and Suzuka was talking about her graduation. There are a few very good videos but how I HATE that so many these days are dubbed in English and that woman has one of the worst voices I've ever heard so will never post any of those videos.
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