Yui Kobayashi: Is still demanding that a Galaxy be named after her!!!!

 

 I have no problems with renaming the Galaxy after Yui 😍 or even the Earth(!) but still can't come up with a name fitting enough for her perfection! In the previous post mentioned how I would be doing another post for today but for someone much less popular than the woman featured in that post, here is that post and why has Yui's fan base not risen at all the last few years and has actually decreased? As I've said before a huge reason could be the lack of new gravure photos and that's often the case when a woman's popularity drops here. Of course I wish there were new ones too but the posts for the last year for Yui have all been so terrific plus quite large.

 After Yui left Keya(Sakura) at the beginning of February 2024 she did virtually nothing for the next six months, even after her return she was way too quiet until March of last year. Have talked about how bummed out I was in a few other posts but about a year ago there was a change back into the old Yui😍 , she's not back to the level of activities she did years ago while with Keya but this now makes it thirteen consecutive months with a post. Wish there were more newer photos in the posts but have at least forty of them for today which are brand new for here plus some oldies that may have never been seen by newish Yui fans but out of curiosity has she gained any recently?

 This will be a decent sized post but didn't want to make it too huge in the hopes of having her next post be the leadoff for April. In ten days Yui will be releasing her first official solo single, she did have a mini album last August. So am hoping by then there will be more news about the single, some interviews and whatever else can be mustered up, will have the PV for the single at the end of this post. In August will begin the countdown for my third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list and have mentioned it so often sure I don't need to remind you anymore. Do that list every four years and so much can take place in that period of time, on the list done in the Summer of 2022 Yui was in the sixth position. But she has moved up for later in 2022 she ended up being my Queen of the year on the fave's list, 2026 will mark the seventh time she'll be on the list which would tie her for the most. Though I like Yui 😍 more than anyone else I've posted about think she's locked into finishing second on that list, would love to see her somehow make it to number one but odds are so low that it'll happen.... though upon further reflection it's not impossible!!!! Out of the hundreds of women I've posted about what's wrong with being my second favorite woman of all time and Yui's still young enough to hit #1 for the next list. That would be in 2030, Yui will be hitting the age of 27 this October so would be thirty when the countdown for list number four commences.

 There's two things I'm holding back for that next post, one are recent photos from her IG page and she never posts enough of them. The other are pics from the andGirl site, Yui is a model for them but hasn't had many newish pics for them this year but still models for the site. This first batch here are older photos yet had never been posted before, recently ran across an interview Yui did for the Crank site back in November 2020 and thought it'd be interesting to see if she's changed at all since then. That was just six weeks after Keya had changed their name to Sakura and she did talk about that huge change. Yui did feel the group had been stagnant for a while and that change was very positive, you can read the whole interview here: Crank site

 Those are some really sharp looking pics above, I think those are just as terrific as gravure photos though wouldn't mind seeing a few new ones from Yui, sigh..... So there being no new modeling pics from the andGirl site for today have some fabulous older ones from With, Yui had been a model for them from July 2018 until June 2023. This batch is from early 2022 and aren't they so stupendous(?), they are to me and about half had never been posted before.

 Because Yui's posts haven't been overly popular can have encore viewings of older things for they've probably been unseen by most of this blog's viewers. It being March let's have this older spread for the third month of the year and this set from EX-Taishu came out way back in 2017!!!! While with Keya Yui seemed to have more magazine spreads than any other member, those have become so rare these days but that's also been the case for most current J-Pop Idols.

 More oldies but goldies which are these Keya cards from 2016-18, am a bit early for Spring and will have more for the season in her next post. The Spring cards have probably been posted before but not the others such as the Hustle Press U-18 cards, will have an older Yui interview and pics from their site in that next post. The bottom five cards are from March 2019 and are new for here, they're from Yui's magnificent first photobook that was released seven years ago on March 13, 2019.

 Here's a tremendous set of brand new Yui photos from yesterday's Spring 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show that took place at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo. There were also current members from Nogi, Keya and Hina there so should be seeing more pics in future posts for a few of those gals. But none topped the brilliance of Yui 😍 who looked so dazzling at the show, she took her stroll on the City of Jewels stage and surprised I was able to get so many photos.... whewwwwwww!!!! That third pic down gets a grade of an A++++ from me and the first six pics were from Yui's IG page.

 Will end off here with some truly sizzling photos, will confess there's no woman I want to see have more gravure photos but if Yui 😍 never does that's still okay as pictures like the ones above are perfect in their own way. After the amazing pics is the PV for her first official single "Game of Life", she uses the name of Yousti for her music. It's a decent song and Yui does look so darn alluring but at times wish she would 'rock out' more, she does play the guitar and has she ever thought of featuring that in a few of her songs?