Yui Kobayashi: Just because who deserves a post more on August 16th?!?!.... or any other day!!

 

 Hmmm, why ask a question such as the one above when we already know the answer.... which is of course NO ONE!!!! I do make a lot of changes or introduce new things as far as blogging goes. But there is one thing that will never change and that's of that first photo being my number one of all time(!) and no other photo has led off more posts than that one, why change perfection! Eighteen months is Yui's 😍 current streak for posts which is the third longest of all time, another woman has twenty and the only person to top that has been Yui with 22! If you want to place a bet with your local bookie take any odds that the record will be broken in January, don't forget to give her and me a cut of your profits! But wish there could be more than one post a month which is all she's had for the eight months of this year but in the first ten months of the streak Yui did have three months with two posts.

 I'll never run out of things to talk about as far as Yui 😍 goes but there's hasn't been much going on for her this year or least since March yet she does enough where a post a month can be done. But then again even if there was nothing new taking place sure I'd still be able to create something for my all time #1 woman! It was exactly a year ago that Yui released her first ever solo mini album which was very successful, so wasn't her first single that came out five months ago. But there's been no news of any upcoming releases though that doesn't mean Yui hasn't been working on things and a release around her October 23rd birthday sounds like a good idea.

 Yui uses the name Yousti for her musical career which is a combo of her name and an Ostrich.... think that YuiNao also has a nice ring to it! Back in 2022 Yui 😍 was my #1 Queen for the year and she ran away from the pack which happens often, she also has two other years in the top five. But so far for 2026 no woman has distanced herself from anyone else, as of now don't think I could crown anyone to be my number one of the year so if Yui's activities could pick up over the next three months she could capture that crown once again! That would be a bit of an overkill for no matter what happens between now and next Spring can't see anyone beating out Yui on the third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list. Well, perhaps something would happen if she announced tomorrow she had eloped and was moving to a deserted island in the South Pacific so we would never hear from her again! Then again, if that eloper had the name of Nao guess I could forgive her....

 Let's get on with things, as usual have a mix of new and older photos. But some of the older things from Keya days hadn't been posted before and even for the photos that have been in prior posts bet most fans have forgotten about them or had never seen the pics until now. First off are these recent photos from Yui's IG page, she's never posted many there and that was also the case with Keya's 'Diary' blog. But that first photo is so terrific and the ones at the bottom are of Yui doing a photo shoot to promote her fan club goodies. On October 18th she'll be having a birthday party for her club members, the actual date of her 27th birthday is five days later.

 It being the Summer have a huge batch of older Keya cards for the season. In Yui's last post had the cards for 2016/17 and these are for 2018-20, the ones for 2020 were the last seasonal cards for the group before they changed to the name Sakura. Since then they've only had cards for singles, tours or graduations, I am running out of cards that had never been posted before but eight below are new for here.

 All of Yui's 😍 photos deserve a grade of 10/10 often higher, how about how she looks clad in a Yukata! Those are Summer Kimonos which she's wearing in the bottom three cards and have even more photos that make the hot Summer weather even steamier....

 Yui has been a model for the andGirl site and magazine since March 2023, in June she had more photos added to their site than any other month. But oddly none since then which of course means no new pics from them today. But don't despair as Yui had been a model for the With site from July 2018 until June 2023, her modeling photos for them were always overly stupendous! Will go back exactly six years for this batch which were added to the With site in August 2020, about half of the modeling pics hadn't been posted until now and bet I've overlooked many others too as Yui must have had over 500 of them during her tenure with them.

 Yui appeared in so many magazines from 2018-21 and don't think any Keya member was in more than she was. However Yui has only had one mag spread since leaving the group thirty months ago and I miss seeing those spreads which weren't packed with gravure photos and that was fine by me. Below is a batch from the Tokyo Calendar site, they're an on-line magazine which features an actress or Idol in every monthly issue. Yui had that honor back in January 2024 so in a way it was her final magazine spread before graduating.

 Yui still appears at those large fashion shows though most of the Summer ones aren't as huge and don't get nearly as much media coverage. Today she was at the 'Tokyo Girls Collection' show held at the Ehime Budokan arena in Matsuyama, that's the capital of the Ehime prefecture located on the island of Shikoku. Sadly these Summer shows don't get the attention of Spring or Autumn shows for Yui may have set a new standard for how attractive a woman can look, wow am I amazed at how she somehow keeps improving on her perfect looks!!!! She took her stroll(s) on the Retro Girl stage, I'd love to see Yui have a digital book or even another regular photobook and even if it didn't contain any gravure pictures a few hundred looking like she does below would send me to eighth heaven(?).... she's already sent me to Seventh Heaven!!!!

 Will wrap up this post with the usual collection of impossible to top Yui 😍 photos and have I gushed more about her in today than in any other of her posts???? Yousti is the stage name she uses for her musical career and is also the name of her YT channel. Yui does a good job at uploading interesting videos such as behind the scenes ones for concerts or making the promo videos. Her latest one was added five days ago which was for the March 27th single "Game of Life" and her small group practiced for a mini live to promote the single. That video is after the photos and it also has her talking with the audience, I recommend checking out all of the entertaining videos at the site.