Mina Oba: Magazine scans #11- One new brand plus some golden oldies....

 SKE's 20th single "Kin no Ai, Gin no Ai" was released on August 17th. Of course it was #1 in it's first week out selling a bit over 251,000 copies, second week sales were 13,000. Impressive figures for most groups but not them as those first week sales were the lowest since their 5th single, also their previous single barely beat this one selling 257,000 copies. It's been a year since Rena's graduation, wonder if she meant more to the group then anyone thought?
 Noticed a lack of SKE things for the last few months as there have been very few mag spreads and no new photobooks or anything along those lines. Being so quiet could be a factor too in why the sales have decreased so much.
 For instance we definitely need many more Mina spreads, few other SKE members have some fine ones but none come close to topping her spreads. As a matter of fact very few Idols or anyone else can come close to topping Mina's pics which is why it's such a shame there aren't more of them. And obviously their management team doesn't read these posts as I and sure many others are still waiting for her first PB.
 Just have one new mag spread for today but naturally it's an exhilarating set of pics from the September 9th issue of Young Animal. But because there's only this one new spread have a few oldies which haven't been posted before. Some of these pics say relax, that's an impossible thing to do viewing her pics, wowwwwwwwwwwww....................

 Mina announced that the last AKB election was the last one she would participate in, hopefully that's not a hint of her graduating. She did finish #22 which was her best finish, this one pic is from the 'General Election' mag that came out for the voting.

 Did one post for her pre-2014 spreads but so far that's been it for some of her much older mag appearances. Mina was born in April of 1992 which means she's plenty old enough and will be getting to all of those ancient ones starting with this set from the December 2010 issue of Bomb.

 Other oldie for today is unfortunately a small spread but the pics are at least truly dazzling which are from WPB #25 2012.

Mina Oba: Magazine scans #9

 Have been saying it for over a year but there's still no one who deserves a photobook more than she does, looks like she agrees.

 Never did a birthday post for Mina, that took place on April 3rd and will use as an excuse that's when I was setting this new computer up. Will work on doing a special post or two for her int he future, a few PB posts though would be the best thing.
 As usual just two new mag spreads, think most posts only have two but she's been appearing in many more mags this year as this is already her third 2016 post for them. First off is a smaller set from the May issue of Entame.

 Never mention it but if you didn't know Mina is in SKE48, been souring on AKB this last year or so but to me right now SKE is easily the best of any of the '48' groups. Other spread is from Young Animal #8 and rarely do they put out a mag without a set of her pics which is a good thing for us.

Mina Oba: Magazine scans #7

 Most of my faves have at least 40 or so posts and the vast majority are actually over a hundred. Mina is the exception though, would love to have so many more posts for her but for some strange reason she just doesn't appear in enough mags and don't recall her ever being at some promo event. Bet I've said that something along those lines for all of Mina's posts but the one thing she deserves more then appearing in a few more mags is having her own photobook.
 Honestly, some of these Idols who have their own photobooks really don't deserve having one, so many of them really don't stack up at all against Mina, er, uh, not many do stack up well against her if you know what I mean. Just two mag spreads once again, least Mina's spreads are always somewhat big at 10+ pics and these for today are no exception. First off is this fabulous set from the February 1st issue of Young Animal, been holding on to it waiting for a second spread this year to come out.

 Least waiting for Mina's second spread of the year was worth it as she leaves us(me) breathless once again in the March 22nd issue of Young Champion.