HKT48: Magazine scans #3 and a bit more....

 Third group post and fifth one overall for HKT the past two weeks, a spurt like that has never happended for them and probably never will again. The group's 12th single was released on Wednesday, title of it is "Ishi". First day sales were impressive as they totaled 170,400 but it's been a different story for the next two days as sales were just a combined total of 10,000. That leaves the mark at 180,570 after three days though hitting 200 K seems like it could easily happen. But at least this single has already outsold their previous one which was "Hayaokuri Calendar". That was the group's only single for 2018 and it sold just 165,000 copies in it's first week.
 Video at the top is from the single though it's a B-side tune. Title of it is "Itsudatte Yori Te wo Furou", it's Rino's farewell' song as she's graduating from HKT by the end of the month. Did read that her final concert will be on the 13th with the group but had heard April 28th was supposed to be her graduation date, would think there would be a concert then. Rino did perform her final AKB show on Tuesday at their theater. few pics from it. Been liking her much more recently so do plan on having a post for her here and there in the future so have held back many of those pics for them.

 This is a bit of a quickie post so won't have a lot of other activities besides mag spreads. But do have one other Rino item and they're new pics from the Topard site. They're a contact lens company and like the majority of Idols she does wear glasses/contacts.

 Been so much Rino so far it could have been a solo post as she also is in the first mag spread which is from the April 20th issue of SPA! With her on the set is Hana and Miku.

 The next three spreads are all really fabulous so any of them could have been my number one set of the day. Here's a member we don't see too often and hope that changes, am referring to Sae Kurihara who looks so terrific in this collection which is from the February issue of UTB. Like so many HKT gals she's slowly getting up there in age as she'll be turning 23 in June.

Here's another member we need to see more often in mags, she's Hiroka Komada who also will be turning 23 this year but not until November. Had held this set from the February edition of
EX-Taishu back and thought it would be #1 for this post but it was barely edged out by the next one.

 As usual the final set is my top one of the day though the above two were certainly in the running for the honor. Last post had a superb solo spread for Natsumi, to me she's such an underrated beauty. But even more underrated is Madoka who may be my fave member, she also had a photobook a few years back which to me deserved a grade of an A+.
 The pair join forces together in this last tremendous set which is from WPB #16, they've had a few other spreads together in the past. Once again my memory failed me as there was one other spread, then again it could be a good thing as I'll save it for the next post which hopefully will be a day sooner now. If you're not tired of "Ishi" yet have the PV for the single after the pics.

HKT48: Magazine scans #2 and much more!!!!

 After going at least seven months without a post for any HKT members or even a group one this is their fourth post in ten days, with any luck will have another one coming up soon. At the top is the full PV for the group's 12th single "Ishi" which comes out on April 10th. They need to start releasing more singles per year, in 2018 they only had one and have never had more than two for one year. The new tune is a fairly decent single, have watched the video a few times and it's gotten better with each listen. There will be five versions of the single, here are the covers and two promo pics.

 Rino has the center position for the single which will be her final one with HKT. Her graduation date with them is April 28th, that show will be at the HKT Theater in Fukuoka but think she'll perform once more after that at the AKB Theater. Can't day I was ever a huge Rino fan though have been liking her much more lately, even after she graduates may try to do a few posts for her as she is one very busy Idol though soon to be ex-Idol. On March 27th Rino was at an event for 'Bright Healthy Tea W' and she promotes so many products. The tea is a new one that came out on April 1st and the event was also to promote a few new CM's she did for the tea.

 While she was promoting the tea a sextet of members were busy promoting the new "Ishi" single with an interview for the Walker Plus site.

 Few of my fave members won't be on the new single such as Sakura. I miss her and so don't a lot of viewers as her posts were always quite popular. As most know she's now a member of the Japanese/Korean Idol group I*Zone and doesn't she look so different these days?

 A very underrated beauty to me is Madoka, she had such a superb photobook about three years ago. She will be on the new single but unfortunately hasn't appeared in a mag spread for over a year.

 On to the mag spreads, have seven of them(!) but will hold on to two so there can be another group post very soon. Last group post had a few 2018 spreads that were missed, have two for today which will finish the year off and compared to most years there were very few for 2018. First up is from the September issue of EX-Taishu, it features Ayaka Oda and trying to post more about the unknown members who are now at least twenty in age.

 Even more Ayaka and this set may be better than the above one. It's from the issue #18 of Young Animal which came out in October.

 Another underrated gal is Natsumi Matsuoka, she's not exactly a beauty but there's something about her which is so attracting. She has the first 2019 set which is from the January edition of EX-Taishu.

 Rino the last five years has been seemingly everywhere except for appearing in magazines which is very odd. This is her first gravure set since 2017 and even before then there weren't too many. This is definitely one of her best to date which is from the April 8th issue of WPB. First half of the spread are new pics while the second half are a brief look through the years from their issues.

 Saved the best for last and this is one of my top ones for 2019 so far. It's from a special Flash edition called 'Best of Winter 2019', it features Aki Toyonaga and is she looking ultra hot or what?!