Yuria Kizaki: Who better to end March off with.... or really any month?!!!!

 

 Those above comments are certainly true and over the years it has become an honor to have the final post of the month! If you look at other end of the month posts from the past few years you'll notice they're often the best post of the month and this one is no different as I save the best for last! Yuria must have many fans out there or perhaps has garnered many new ones as the post done for her six weeks ago was in that section for 'Most viewed posts of the past thirty days' for a week and that was an unexpected pleasant surprise but did deserve to be popular as it was such a superb post. I won't take credit for that and give it all to Yuria 😍 as her sizzling pictures would make any average post a masterpiece!

 I really didn't expect to do any more posts for Yuria after 2019 but this now makes it four in the past year! She had some health problems at the beginning of this decade and had announced her retirement from show biz, even though she didn't have many posts here I was still bummed out. It's true her photos are so terrific, least to me they are, but after Yui from Keya I would consider Yuria to be the most pleasant or likable woman I post about. Considering how many hundreds of women I've posted about that is a high compliment and how I would love to see these posts continue on for a while. Getting back to her retirement Yuria did recover from her health problems and made a comeback in 2023, she wasn't busy at first but her activities have been increasing with each passing year. In 2025 Yuria made five guest appearances in a drama and was also in five stage plays plus opened a fan club and has just released her third photobook so I enjoy doing these kinds of posts for a favorite of mine who have turned things around which doesn't happen often. Yuria hit the age of thirty on February 11th so may have been thinking the last year or so that this could be her best(last?) attempt at making show biz a successful career. You don't have to be a huge star to be a success and if you notice I much prefer doing posts for non-superstars and can't think of any major stars I do posts for these days.

 Think this makes it fourteen posts for Yuria, not a huge amount of them but the posts have always been large and ultra fabulous. With so few posts odds are slim to none that Yuria will squeeze onto the upcoming 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list but she could be one of my top twenty women. A few times have mentioned about doing some sort of list for those favorites who seldom qualify for most lists and the quality of those women is extremely high! Bet I could make such a super duper list of those who have less than 25 posts and Yuria 😍 would have an excellent shot at being #1 on such a list!!!! This post will be a large one as there's over sixty new photos plus some oldies that haven't been seen for years. But could have made this larger and my plan(hope) is to have Yuria also end off the month of April! Am going to hold back one new magazine spread and a set of interview pics, she posts many photos at her IG page so when you add those up along with some older things that had never been posted and also of perhaps an April event for her book think the odds are high that for the first time ever Yuria will have a post in three consecutive months!

 Still haven't done a 'Pairs Post' for the above duo but it will be done eventually, it'd probably take days to do as my imagination would be in hyperdrive! Have a little bit of many things, Yuria may have only three posts for the year but bet all will be in the top twenty for best posts of 2026! First off are these older AKB/SKE cards and there will be a larger amount in her next post. The top six are for AKB's "Village Vanguard" series and they came out at the beginning of 2017, the rest are oddball ones but they do have a theme as they're all with other AKB/SKE mates and of course that first 'pairs card' is my favorite....

 Yuria does post many more photos these days at her IG page and I've been noticing she looks so much happier these days which I hope continues on forever! These are all from the past five weeks, a few feature her stopping at stores to sign copies of her new photobook if she wasn't there for an event. In the fifth and second to last one is Yuria's old SKE mate Akane and in a really big surprise in the last picture is Maimi from C-ute, the pair have been in two stage plays together and have become friends.

 

Back in her Idoling days Yuria released two photobooks, have done posts for both and the pair are simply amazing but especially the second one. After a gap of 8 1/2 years Yuria released her third photobook and will end off the post with some dazzling promo pics for it, the title is "Updating" and came out on March 25th. Yuria has done a few interviews for the book, have some photos below from one of them which was with the Bubka Web site. The interview is fairly interesting and Yuria does discuss her days as an Idol and about making her comeback, here's the link to it: Bubka site

 Those are some splendid pictures above, I've liked Yuria for about a decade and while she's always looked sensational she looks so unbelievably stupendous these days! Let's go back in time to March 7, 2017 for this spread as she was the cover girl for Manga Action, compare these pics to the next spread and six months after this magazine was released Yuria graduated from AKB/SKE. She was 21 1/2 in age at the time and I've always said it may have been wiser to stay with the groups a bit longer.

 This small set was in her last post and is from the March 3rd issue of Flash, am holding back her new SPA! spread for that next post. This set featured outtake pictures from Yuria's new photobook and that second pic is out of this world! All the pics are terrific and so aren't the ones in the above spread, especially the fifth one.

 Yesterday Yuria held an event for the book in the Jinbocho section of Tokyo. Sadly the book probably won't be a huge seller and am saying that because books these days sell so fewer copies than they did five years ago but of course I am hoping for the best. The location of the photo shoot was Hanoi and it was the first time Yuria had been to that Vietnamese city, the book just came out five days ago so perhaps there will another event or two around Yuria's hometown area of Aichi.

 Will end off with some scorching promo/outtake pictures from the photobook "Updating". Some had been in her last post but at least seven are new for here, that includes the final pic which has already given me a few sleepless nights! What I'm hoping for is any kind of video from the book's photo shoot, Yuria does have two prior books plus many gravure magazine spreads but has so few videos from any of them. After the pics is an older video from 2015 that I had never seen and it's from the BLT 20+Sweet magazine, it's doesn't feature any scantly clad footage but I enjoy listening to Yuria's voice which is rather soothing....