At a glance that second pic above may not look overly alluring but it could end up being one of my top photos of the year.... along with so many more from this extremely underrated book! Well, not sure if it is underrated but bet it was as sales were just shy of 30,000 copies sold and though it seems lowish it's not that bad of a figure. Rina is one of those 'Under the Radar' J-Pop Idols who I like so much yet will never be a huge fave of mine and there's no one to blame for that. She's had four previous solo posts plus has had many photos and news items in at least eleven other posts so she's far from being a newbie. There is one very high compliment I will bestow upon Rina and did mention it in one other post, think it was a group one for Keya. I've posted about so many hundreds of Idols, of course I don't know them personally but after a while can see what kind of person they are and mostly they're decent gals. Of all those hundreds the Idol I would get along with the best is Rina and we seem to be so much alike. I am a bit older but not by too much and she'll be hitting the age of 27 in October. Rina seems to be a serious person yet has this funny streak about her as she likes the oddities in life. Before joining Keya Rina had been a bank teller and because of that has an analytical mind which I may have too if you've noticed. To to sum it up though there's dozens of Idols I may like more than Rina she'd probably be the woman I'd get along with the best and she's also so darn attractive, wait until you view the book!
This book was released on January 20th and it was the first photobook for a Keya member in a long, long time! In an oddity they've become more popular after all of the first generation members left but only as a group. Their singles sell more than ever or at least since their name was changed to Sakura in late 2020. But it's the group itself which has become more popular and there doesn't seem to be a huge star these days in Keya which all in all isn't a bad thing. For the photo shoot
Rina traveled to New Zealand and she did deserve to be rewarded with a book and trip after being with the group so long. At the end of this year the second generation of Keya/Sakura will have been with the group eight years and so far very few of those members have left but it'll be happening. In November 2022
Rina became the group's second captain and even though she didn't appear in many magazines or fashion shows
Rina was often the one of the highlights of the group's 'Soko' variety show. Let's get to the book which contains 128 pictures, I'm extremely surprised at how terrific
Rina looks in this photobook. For a change there's a nice mix of regular and gravure pictures as often there's too many photos of one or the other. Am hoping this post will be a popular one as it deserves to be, it'll end up being one of my favorite books for 2026. If this is a popular post it'll probably be in that section for 'Most viewed posts of the past thirty days', once it drops out will be back with at least one solo post for
Rina. There was an event for the book, some outtakes pictures plus can also have some Keya cards and whatever else I can dig up. Think the last regular book before this one came out in October 2024 and was the second one for
Hono. That means there was a fifteen month gap in books and who I wouldn't mind seeing have a book is
Hikaru, she's a fave of mine and did a post for her back in February.
