Sakura Miyawaki: 2016 magazine scans #3

 HKT's latest single which came out on April 13th, "74 Okubun no 1 no Kimi e", has really been a bit of a disappointment. First week sales were 238,000, since then they've sold about 13,000 copies to bring the total to 251,000+. Appears it's going to end up as the group's lowest selling single to date unless a miracle pops up which doesn't look like it'll happen as sales last week were just over a thousand.
 Think all the '48' subgroups have suffered a similar fate with their latest singles, perhaps fans are just getting a bit tired of the groups though this song wasn't a bad one and probably deserved a better fate. But wonder if a reason for the decrease in sales is because of management's decision not have the videos on YT? Thought a PV was to increase sales and they used to have them on YT before a single came out but the last few years management has said no to having videos on YT, maybe with sales lagging they'll come to their senses about that decision.
 Least Sakura is looking mighty fine these days though it seems as she's lost a bit of weight, she's always been thin so hope that weight loss stops real soon. Perhaps another photobook from her would help the group's sales out, her first and only one came out last July but haven't heard any news about a second PB. Three mag spreads today and they're all good sized ones too beginning with this fine set from the May 24th issue of Young Champion.

 Another May 24th spread which is from SPA!.

 Didn't occur to me until now so need to go check which is what position Sakura will have on AKB's next single which is coming out next month. On their previous one she was the center but that may have been due to the fact the the word 'Sakura' was in the title. Final spread for today is another excellent set of pics from the June issue of Entame.

Sakura Miyawaki: 2015 magazine scans #7 and more....

 Perhaps this is always a slow time of the year, need to check some of the posts from the prior years to see if that's true. Lot of magazines tend to take a few weeks off from publishing, for instance you see them labeled issue #1 and 2 for a year as they combine the weeks together plus some weekly mags have already put out their first issue for 2016, that I don't understand.
 Don't know if any others out there have noticed that trend over the years, just brought that as the mag spreads, promo events and film premieres have really slowed down these last few weeks. Can always find something to post about here so they'll always be something for most days but prefer to post about current things and have the older posts as change of paces. Bit of an edit as I've finished the post but I certainly can ramble on at times I've noticed, seems once I start typing so many new thoughts come out, wonder if that happens with any of you viewers out there?
 In two recent posts have mentioned that I have a lot of 2/3's posts, just don't have enough for a huge post or at least one that's good enough for my standards. Maybe I should lower those standards as I try to make every post an excellent one, sometimes it just isn't possible and I end up holding on to things for too long.
 That's the case for Sakura today, have a few really terrific new mag spreads but it's not going to be as big of a post as usual. This is already her 7th mag spread post which is quite a few as I've only been posting the mags she's appeared in since August, can see her having twenty or more for next year. Maybe the quantity is lacking but the quality certainly isn't as this first Sakura post could be her best to date, it's actually a big spread so though there aren't many they'll be many pics. This fabulous set of pics is from volume four of BLT Graph, it's a new magazine as you can tell by it only being it's fourth volume but it's turning into one of the better mags around.

 Only other Sakura spread is a smaller one from Weekly Shonen Champion #52.

 Oooops, made a mistake as there's one other small spread with Haruka which is from Young Magazine #53.

 Guess it ended up being an okay sized post, last Sakura thing are her AKB Theater cards for November, she has quite a few cards for this year so that'll be an upcoming project which is going to be gathering all those cards for a few posts.