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Hajimemashite minna san....welcome to my site on my fave Japanese Pop Culture likes such as dramas, movies, magazine scans, promo events etc. Mainly concentrate on my faves...Yui Kobayashi... Miku Tanaka... Nagi Inoue....Maria Makino.... Nene Shida....if you're a fan at all of any of them then you've come to the rightplace(!) but many others are featured here besides them. Do mainly quick reviews on things I've watched, try to make the reviews brief, quick to read through with not too many spoilers, just whether they're good or bad and why I thought so plus whether you may find them enjoyable. Many, many screenshots are included from everything I've watched plus any video trailers if they're available. Hope you find something that interests you, don't hesitate to comment, arigato gozaimasu!
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Showing posts with label Miyuki Watanabe cards. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Miyuki Watanabe cards. Show all posts
May take tomorrow off as I would like to finish or come close to doing so to the next post in that 'My Current Watches' series. They're not hard to do but they've become larger over time but it's still easier to have one huge post with a drama and three movies than four good sized posts of those. Then again often say I will be taking a day off and it never happens but it's just a warning if you don't see me tomorrow. I usually lead off those posts talking about a favorite who has disappeared or someone we rarely hear from these days. In that last post done on August 1st did bring up Miyuki's 😍 name and often when I do talk about someone a post for that woman miraculously happens! So guess I should bring up Miyuki's name at least once a week however I wasn't quite correct saying she's been so quiet this year.
Will admit that Miyuki hasn't been as busy as she was the previous two years but this is her sixth post of the year and I had no idea it was that many! Two were for older photobooks but four of these posts in a seven month period is an okay pace for me though wish I could do a post for Miyuki weekly! Exactly four years ago is when the second 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list was having its countdown, in a mild shocker to many Miyuki 😍 was third on the list! The third list will be taking place next Spring and I only expect her to drop one position, seems the gap between my top four favorites and everyone else is so large and may never be overcome. This is Miyuki's 65th post and had she been over eighty bet she would have had a shot at being #1 and in a way my top four faves do share that Queen's crown. Miyuki is one of the rare J-Pop Idols who I like much more than when they were in their group. Of those 65 posts forty have been in the last five years, there were so few done between late 2016 to early 2019.
This month also marks the tenth anniversary of Miyuki graduating from 2016 and hasn't a decade just zoomed right by?! Too quickly if you ask me and when she left the group Miyuki had done so too early as her contract stated she had to be with NMB until 2018 so that's why she had so few posts in a two year stretch and then it took another year for her solo career to get off the ground. I really don't know why she left NMB early as Miyuki was so popular at the time and when she left it was a month before her 23rd birthday. In six weeks(September 19th) her 33rd birthday will be taking place and will do a post soon after that, it's so hard to believe many of my long time favorites are aging so rapidly but in her case the aging has been so graceful! Could have waited until then for a post but when I woke up today really wanted to do a post for Miyuki 😍 and that urge happens more with her than anyone else. Do have a fair amount of newish photos, some older ones that had never been posted plus a few golden oldies that may have been forgotten about.
Years ago would never have imagined Miyuki would be up to 65 posts as they were so hard to do but least all were so terrific. Those older posts have all drawn a decent amount of views, Miyuki isn't my #1 woman of all time but if you check out those older posts doubt if I've ever gushed about a woman more than her! Not so many photos lately from her IG page but then again am holding a few things back for Miyuki's 33rd birthday post, two others I post about also have a birthday on September 19th. The bottom pic is a promo one for the August 13th 'Kansai Collection' fashion show and hopefully there will some fabulous photos which will be in that next post.
It being August so let's go way back in time for these NMB monthly cards that go from 2011 to 2014. The first time Miyuki had a post was back in the Summer of 2013 or thirteen years ago, she's averaged five posts a year since then but there was that stretch of slowness from late 2016 to early 2019. What I'm wondering is there any other woman who still gets a fair amount of posts that has been around as long as Miyuki has? I would say NO and the answer may also be NO to the question is there any other woman I've been ga-ga over for so long????
Miyuki has been a model for so many sites and/or clothing lines but never stays with one for a long time. This past Spring she had some terrific modeling photos for the Apuweiser clothing line and their Spring collection. In a nice surprise Miyuki is still with them and these are for their late Summer collection, will have even more in her next post.
From 2020-23 Miyuki did a fair amount of gravure modeling but we haven't seen any newish photos in that vein for a while which is a shame as she looks more perfect than ever! Here's a small batch of Miyuki from 2021 modeling Amphi lingerie and she was only with them for a few months.
As many of you viewers have been noticing have added in a new label called Photo Shoots which is easy enough to understand, mainly pictures from a woman's gravure photo shoots. Below are some of those for Miyuki from 2021-23 though she didn't do many gravure photo shoots during that time. But she does have many other photo shoot pics for regular modeling and will have many of those pictures in the future. About half the photos are new for here, the others were in previous posts but many years ago so may have never been seen by those reading this....
It's been a while since we've seen a regular Miyuki magazine spread and will that ever happen again? It should and I hate how the mag spreads slow down so much for those woman in their thirties as to me they look better than ever! So have to go back in time and it being the eighth month of the year have this spread from the August 10, 2014 issue of Manga Action. At the time Miyuki was five weeks shy of celebrating her 21st birthday, she looked so magnificent back then but over the years that look has turned into one of perfection!
Didn't realize it but have another Miyuki magazine spread from August 2014, this set is for Girls! and don't think the magazine still publishes these days. Miyuki had so many terrific spreads from 2012-16 while with NMB, from that period of time this could be my favorite of them all!
Will end off here with a large batch of sizzling photos which shows why every woman in the world is jealous of Miyuki 😍 and how she may be my #1 pick to be on a deserted island with!!!! Above had a pair of magazine spreads from 2014, after these scorching pictures is something else from that year which are two Panasonic commercials on one video. Would have done something for Miyuki's tenth anniversary of graduating from NMB but back in 2016 did have a pair of posts with concert photos and also things for her graduation photobook.