Mina Oba: Magazine scans #13- October 25th Young Gangan

 Sigh, wonder if my dying words will be put on my gravestone- "Nobody deserved a photobook more than Mina.... hack hack, cough, gasp(the end)"....

.... just hope Mina is the one at my bedside when the end happens. No doubt I sound like a broken record but is there any Idol who hasn't had a photobook these last five years who merits one more than Mina? Can't think of one and she is so much more deserving than 99.8% of those who have gotten one. Think time is running out as Mina is turning 25 next April and has announced she won't be participating in the next general election.
 Perhaps I should put together my own PB for everyone, can easily use her Young Gangan pics from the last five years and have a book that would be second to none. Second to none is an apt description for Mina as she(she's doing it now) constantly leaves me speechless and gasping for air. Just the one mag spread but it's a huge one at 25 pics(!) and about half are bonus pics. As mentioned above it's from the October 25th issue of Young Gangan, sigh again....

Mina Oba: Magazine scans #12- Young Gangan 18 plus some oldies....

 Been taking a while but think Mina is finally acquiring a few fans here, sadly I'll be running out of these older spreads to post. She was born in April of 1992 so we can go back a few more years, so far haven't posted many spreads prior to 2013 or least don't think so. Let's hope a Mina graduation isn't on the horizon as she said June's AKB elections would be her last one, she finished 22nd in the voting which is an impressive showing considering how many members there are.
 If a graduation does happen next year there aren't going to be too many '48 Family' members left that I like, actually think SKE has more members I like than all of the other groups combined. Just this one new mag spread from Young Gangan #18 but it is a superb set of pics though not enough of them.... the bottom one could mean another sleepless night....

 Mina has appeared in too many mag spreads since 2010 to count but the majority of them before 2014 were mainly SKE spreads so there aren't go be as many today as she deserves. This smaller set is from WPB #22 from 2011. If you compare these pics to the above ones she's sure grown up these last five years.

 As mentioned most older spreads feature other members of SKE like this one does from the May 1, 2011 issue of Flash.

 From the March 2012 issue of Bomb, sure you recognize most of the other cover gals.

 About 98% positive these pics weren't posted, if they were it was a year ago so if that's the case they deserved an encore. Final Mina spread for today is from the July 2011 issue of UTB. Besides there not being enough Mina mag spreads there's also a shortage of fabulous videos. However there are a few on YT so after these pics check out her tremendous AKB 1/48 promo video.