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

 

 Ended off last month with the same post title but of course used March instead of April, the record for most consecutive months with the final post is three which happened last year with an ex-Hina member. It could be extremely difficult but I enjoy challenges so let me try to equal that record and least I have a whole month to work on that post! The 'Nao Year' begins on December 1st so we've hit the five month mark and though no records will be set for posts this is turning out to be a decent year as the posts are bigger and better than ever, this could be the top post to date for 2026. Bring those subjects up for though this has been a good year to date for posts it's only been a so-so year for many of then women I post about and let me explain that.

 Usually after five months a couple of women have separated themselves from the pack as far as finishing high on the fave's list goes, often by July know who #1 will be or who will be giving them a battle. That hasn't come close to happening yet for 2026 and no one has really stood out to date, just because someone has more posts than others doesn't make them my Queen of the year. Many have had quite a few good posts but none that truly stand out so there's something that may take place this year which I never saw coming, odds are high it won't happen but glad I can at least talk about it! This is Yuria's third post for the year, all have ben in the last ten weeks. If she could possibly get up to seven posts or perhaps even more Yuria against all odds could be my number one woman of the year!!!! While others have more posts Yuria's have been so darn fabulous and have been the best of anyone after five months of this current 'Nao Year'. There's still a long way to go in 2026 but just being able to bring her name up for being #1 is something I never thought would happen and am keeping my fingers crossed these posts will be able to continue.

 Posts will have an excellent chance of continuing on and that's because of me! For when I like someone immensely I do bend over backwards creating posts for them and the best example is Yui from Keya who may be my all time number one woman! I have gushed about Yuria 😍 in so many posts but had kind of resigned myself to her never having many posts here. The same held true for a few other potential 'massive favorites' of mine and that's also been another pleasant surprise this year as along with Yuria 3-4 other long time semi-forgotten faves have risen out of nowhere and that does keep my interest level high. So with me being totally ga-ga over Yuria 😍, which has been the case for a decade, but even more so these days she has an excellent chance at getting to seven posts or with any luck one or two more. If Yuria does become my Queen for 2026 hope you placed a hefty bet with your bookies as the odds were a Billion to one such a scenario would ever happen!

 Yuria is no mega star here but seems to have a solid fan base and her posts have drawn a good amount of views so wish there were more of them. If you are a fan this just may be her best post to date and check out her previous two for the year which have also been terrific. For today have eighty new photos that have never been posted here before, it's a mix of older and recent things. Yuria released her third photobook five weeks ago and while not a massive seller think it accomplished its purpose. Which was to put Yuria back in the spotlight again and that should help her career which is mainly an acting one these days. Personally would love to see her have a few digital books and those don't cost too much $$ to publish, sure there's plenty of outtake pics from her photobook so why not start there?

 There's a handful of women who I tend to go overboard with their intros, in the case of Yuria 😍 its because I'm so elated to do a trio of posts for her and when writing these up wish they would never end! Have a little bit of many things and there will be no order to them so let's start off with some recent IG photos, Yuria usually posts quite a few but not all that many for April.... she does love the spirits as you can see in the top pic and think an ice cold Lager is her drink of choice.....

 That bottom pic features Yuria's all time best buddy Akari and skipped having a post for her in April which ended her streak of seventeen months with at least one post. Of course the pair were both in SKE, Yuria was also a FT member of AKB and second up are these group cards from early 2014. Have many more of them and there's probably many things from 2014-18 that had never been posted before.

 Yuria did many interviews to promote her third photobook "Updating" and she seems like such an interesting woman plus is a barrel of fun and looks tremendous so she's easy to root for. One site that she did an interview with was Glass Girl, the pics below are from the site. Also have the link to it and Yuria talked about so many topics such as her retirement and return to show biz, how it feels getting older(but better!) and also how she'll be preforming with her old mates at SKE's 20th anniversary concert plus about drinking Hanoi beer(!): Glass Girl interview

 It'd be impossible to count up how many hours of Japanese dramas I've viewed, have seen over 500 series so the total must be in the tens of thousands of hours. Out of that massive amount of hours which have been over the last seventeen years one 45 minute episode stands out above all others, it was a superb episode but there's been countless many that have been better. What stood out was the way Yuria looked as a guest star and this is no exaggeration to say I've never seen anyone more enchanting than the way she looked in that episode, it's hard to believe how many times I've viewed it.... and somehow that perfection increases with each viewing! The excellent "CHEAT" drama aired in late 2019 and was about a team of could be swindlers who help victims that have been cheated, it was a very unique, odd and interesting show which I recommend. 

 Below are 26 screenshots from the seventh episode which is the one Yuria guest starred in, she was also in the tenth show but just for a few minutes. She played the role of Masae Noro who had come to the CHEAT agency for some help, she had been swindled out of three million yen by a fortune teller. While four of the five team members insulted Masae for being so easily duped the naive male member Kamo vowed to get her money back and to bring down this fraud online site. You could also see that Kamo had fallen hard for Masae and as time went on in the show she knew Kamo would do anything she wished for and will stop there. For I could have taken another twenty screenshots to finish the story and will do so in Yuria's next post. It was turning out that Masae was a plant from an evil organization which wanted to bring the CHEAT team down, the story of Masae being scammed was all a hoax!!!! So in her next post will have part two of this entertaining story, the screenshots may not do Yuria 😍 justice but I've honestly never seen anyone look so alluring/stunning/alluring/etc. as she did in this seventh episode.

 Five weeks ago on March 25th Yuria's third photobook "Updating" was released, the photo shoot took place in Vietnam and in that interview above she did talk about the country's beer! This was Yuria's first set of gravure pictures in 8 1/2 years and how I hope they're not her final ones in that genre, as mentioned earlier would love to see her have a few digital books and bet her fans would love to see some also! Have posted the below pics which were promo/outtake ones for the book, will try to get more for Yuria's next post.

 No new magazine spreads but may have a recent one in that next post. What I often include in posts and especially for those who had gone a while without posts are some old things which most had forgotten about or more likely had never seen before. Such as this spread from the September 12, 2017 issue of Young Champion which was her final one as a AKB/SKE member as she graduated at the end of the month, Yuria's second book "Stagedoor" came out three days after this magazine.

 A big reason for having that above spread is that there was a video of the photo shoot and I haven't been able to find any other gravure videos for her magazine photo shoots, have I missed them? The video for the above spread is one of my all time favorites yet the version that's currently on YT is so bad quality wise so don't want to post it. Years ago did get a slightly better version of that Young Champion video and do watch it often but wish there were other gravure ones of Yuria, there were none for her photobooks. Will end off with some screenshots from the almost nine minute video and will have more in that next post, it's easy to see why I've been ga-ga over her for almost a decade!!!! I really like those first few screenshots and Yuria 😍 as a bride is certainly heart attack inducing to me(!), after the sizzling pics is a short video from an event for her third photobook that took place on March 29th, she also has such a soothing and pleasant voice.... how many superlatives did I throw at Yuria in this post(?) and she deserved all of them! EDIT: Forget that video as the uploader disabled embedding so after the pics is a video from an event for Yuria's first book "Peace" and that came out in February 2015!