Akane Hotta: Another overdue post for a forgotten fave....

 Have so many faves I post about these days tend to overlook a few of them. That's why I haven't introduced anyone for the past few weeks and may keep that going for the entire month of May. If there's any Akane fans out there there should be a few more posts coming up for her, have quite a few pics for today but there's plenty of other happenings from the last two months to get to.
 Am currently viewing the '3-Nen A Kumi' drama which I'm really enjoying and hope to have a few posts for it before the week is up. Akane is in the show playing a teacher, when I noticed her in the show knew it was time to bring her back from the land of forgotten. Akane turned 27 last October and is one of the more intelligent faves of mine as she graduated from Rikkyo University with a major in French. She hasn't used that education yet but it's understandable as she's become such a popular model plus her acting career is doing better as she has her first lead role in a movie coming up.

 Akane is one of those rare woman who I can post about that can have fifty or more new pics and not one of them will be from a magazine. Akane does appear often in the issues of CanCam but will hold off on those pics until her next post. She often represents them at the huge fashion shows and her recent TGC appearances will also be coming up soon, these are brand new from the CC site.

 There are so many new pics for Akane modeling for company's Spring collection pics it's mind boggling. So many will have some in all of her future posts and she does look darn good in all of the pics. They're all somewhat conservative as she rarely does gravure spreads but the pics are definitely superb such as these new ones from the With Online site.

 Have even more fabulous pics from a pair of Spring collections, five pics each from the Tocco and Will Selection Spring collections.

 Akane was also a part time announcer for a while. She was the co-host for the 'ZIP' show for two years and has been a co-host for a few variety shows. On April 17th she looked so terrific at a store opening event for Tiffany, it was for their first ever 'Cat Street' store in Japan which is in Harajuku.

 As mentioned at the top Akane will have the lead role for the first time in a film. Title of the movie is "Doubt Usotsuki Otoko wa Dare?" which translates over to Liar! Uncover the Truth. On April 29th there was a press conference for the film to announce it's completion, it's coming out at the end of the Summer though there's no official date yet. The event was held at the Shingawa Grand Hall in Tokyo, have some pics from it plus after them is the first trailer which was released yesterday.

Nogizaka46: 2019 Magazine scans #10- June issue of Brody

 Usually don't have one spread for a post but today's is an exception as it contains the whopping amount of.... 59 pics! Wow, that may be the Nogi's largest mag spread to date and why didn't they just devote the whole mag to them?
 May have another post for spreads in the next day or two as there are two others plus there's been a few other recent Nogi activities. "Sing Out" is the title of their 23rd single coming out on May 29th, no pics for it yet but the PV for the song is coming out in four days. There will be seven tunes on the single which is about the same total of new songs on their fourth album that was released on April 17th. That's been a massive seller as first week sales were 453,000+ copies sold! That's a new group record and album three's first week sales were just 342,000.

 Sigh, the sales have really increased since you-know-who graduated and hope that's not the reason for the huge increases!!!! On to the June issue of Brody that contains 59 pics but only 46 are new. That's because there was a 'pairs post' yesterday featuring the two cover girls Hinako and Miona with their spread and know no fan can ever get tired of viewing their pics.

 They weren't the only pairs in this issue as every spread has a duo. Next up are two of my fave Undergirls who are Ayane and Miria but can't call them UG's anymore as they'll both be Senbatsu members on the upcoming single.

 More Undergirls and this next set was titled 'Last Stroll'. It makes sense for Karin who announced her graduation but that hasn't happened yet. But sharing the spread with her is Kotoko who isn't graduating, she's someone I've liked for a while but wish she wasn't so quiet and that's a similar trait with so many Undergirls.

 There's one good thing about Nogi compared to other groups. Seems many of the lesser Senbatsu members or Undergirls often get their turn in the spotlight appearing in spreads, hosting 'Showroom' or having their own radio shows, much more than the '48' groups. Continuing on hope everyone isn't tired of viewing Undergirl pics as we have another pair of them. Both Ranze and Rena seemed to be quite popular years ago but it's faded a bit recently, when you have fifty or so members it's hard for everyone to be a superstar.

 On to the final set of duos which features another UG who is Junna, another gal we don't see enough of. With her is Mai who is close to being my 31 current Nogi member, once again will promise to have a solo post for her soon but wish she had her own mag spreads. Following their set are many group pages from the mag which is actually an Undergirls feature. Even though five of today's members will be Senbatsus on the next single at one time they too were UG's.