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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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Friday, March 13, 2026
Haruka Kaki: Yet another in the long line of.... π―πππ πππ ππππππππ πππ πππ ππ posts....
Sometimes talk about a photo which sends me to Seventh Heaven and that top pic is one of them! Don't know why but that's my favorite photo of Haruka and I could gape at it nonstop for daysweeks years and never grown tired of it, whewwww!!!!
EDIT: For the first time ever and after over 9,000 posts a tragedy struck, not an Earth shattering one but something which is making me fume to no end!!!! After I had completely finished this post all of the text and photos save for the above were deleted, how that happened is a mystery and there's no way to recover any of it! So this post may end up looking quite different than the original version and may have much less text as I can't recall everything I had written, did need a break to cool down.... grrrrrrr!
Know I had written that it's been so difficult to do posts for Haruka, she just had one last year after only two in 2024. Haruka should be battling it out to be my number one current favorite J-Pop Idol but with so few posts the last few years that'll never happen and am a bit bummed out about that. Least during my cooling down period have been admiring the vast amount of photos I have of her but they're so hot I'm didn't cool down at all!
When I first introduced Haruka in December 2022 thought she'd have such a huge amount of posts for Haruka is very popular, had the best selling photobook of 2022 and has been the center of four Nogi singles. By December 2023 she was up to eight posts and that was a pace I could have lived with but then the bottom seemed to fall out and who knows why? Haruka rarely appears in magazines these days, never at any of those huge fashion shows and tomorrow the Spring 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show will be taking place with over a dozen members of Nogi, Keya and Hina in attendance. So I just can't understand why we don't see much more of Haruka and maybe she prefers staying out of the limelight? Did say above she should be battling it out to be my #1 current Idol which has been Maria from Morning Musume the last few years. Wish I had some photos of them for comparison but don't, the two look so similar as both are tallish at 166 cm and have a figure that is flawless!
Wonder when we'll be seeing Haruka's second photobook, the first was released in June 2022. What a massive seller it was with over 185,000 copies sold but you never hear it mentioned as far as being one of Nogi's best photobooks. However I've mentioned how terrific it is often, out of the 65 books a member as had would place it about fifth on my list of favorites! Seven of the top eight pics are from the book and doesn't she look so amazing?! That Haruka does and you readers think so too as it's by far her most popular post with almost 9,500 views.
I still think Haruka looks so much like Erika Toda did between the ages of 20-23, that's a high compliment but Haruka's figure definitely gets my blood boiling a bit more! Have about sixty new pics for today and will begin off with some recent ones from the Nogi blog but just her solo photos, like most members she doesn't have an IG page.
Since April 2021 Haruka has hosted a 'School of Locks' radio show for one week a month so she's about to celebrate five years next month. Below are some pics from last week and also hosting a show is her good mate Nagi, she's so popular with you viewers and will be at tomorrow's TGC show so hope to have a post for her within the week.
Never understand why some members from Nogi, Keya and Hina have many more group cards versus other members. That's been the case for Haruka and you'd think she'd have more than anyone else, the batch below are new for here and are from the second half of 2025. A few are from the "Same Numbers" single that came out last July 30th, it was the fourth time Haruka held the center position.
Another thing I can't understand is why more sites and/or magazines don't sign up Haruka to be a model for them? Maybe it's her decision but she's very popular with Nogi's female fans and that's the target audience for fashion sites. In her last post did have a May 2025 spread for the ar magazine and thought she'd be with them a while. That wasn't the case as there's been no new photos at their site since August but least the ones below are quite heart attack inducing.... whewwww....
Don't know why Haruka doesn't appear in more magazines, at one time she did so but like most Idols the amount of her spreads has dwindled the past few years. But Haruka is the cover girl for the March 11th issue of Weekly Shonen, think it's her fifth time having that honor.
We've hit the end and writing this up again didn't take as long as I expected. But sure I left some things out from the original post and hope that never happens again. For the finale have an encore viewing of Haruka's photos from the June 2023 issue of 'White Graph' which is published by the BLT magazine. Haven't seen an issue for a while and they've had a dozen, Haruka was the cover girl and six times a Nogi member has graced the cover, three members are featured in each edition.
**** One thing I had completely forgotten about was the Spring 2025 drama "Ryosangata Ruka: Puramo Buinno Aoki Gyakushu" and do have all ten subbed episodes. Probably forgot about it due to the lack of Haruka posts but do promise to do a few posts for it soon, I still haven't viewed it. Haruka had the co-lead role in the series with a close Nogi mate of hers who I also like, after the pics is a video of the duo promoting the series.
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