Nogizaka46: 2013 magazine scans #14 and more

 The group's new single that came out on the 27th, "Barrette", has done extremely well so far, it was #1 in it's first day and after 3 days it's already their biggest selling single. Just a few mag spreads here but actually have more than that, Mai isn't the captain but by far she seems to represent the group the most, she does many more interviews and promo events. First here are a few pics of her from a new interview for Model Press.

 Mai on Nov. 29th at an early X-Mas event for Samantha Thavasa/Tiara.

 Really nice Nanase spread from the new issue of WPB which is #49.

 And this is it for now, another really terrific Nanase spread from the Dec. 13th issue of Friday.

Miori Takimoto: Desktop calendars for December & more

 The Sony site puts out these desktop calendars for every month, they look good and I always have one on my desktop, can't beat looking at Miori when you first turn on your computer! Sizes for the calendars are 1280 X 800, 1024 X 768 and 1280 X 1024.

 To be honest that's really the only new thing for Miori for the post, she does have a new TV movie airing on UULA next week, tough to get ones that air on it as it's a streaming site but hopefully can find some pics from it or perhaps even the movie but I'm not holding my breath. Need more than a few Miori pics in a post so here's an oldie from the Ikemen desu ne drama official photobook.

 And lastly here's a few more pics I found of Miori from the 70th Venice Film Festival, these are truly fantastic pics as she looked just too stunning to describe, also there's a fabulous new video of her at the festival, really recommend watching it.

Erika Toda: Umi no Ue no Shinryoujo drama episode 7 recap

 After two small cameo appearances Erika finally shows up in this drama for the whole episode, bit of a thin story but she looks more dazzling than ever, her character's name is Hikaru.
 Hikaru one day visits the clinic boat, no one knows who she is or why she's there but it eventually comes out that she was once engaged to Dr. Kato! Some years before he was working in a Tokyo hospital when he met Hikaru and in a whirlwind relationship they got engaged and were on their way to meet his mother. However on a layover on their trio to Hokkaido Hikaru drops a bombshell on Kato, she's actually a man!!!! Kato panics like most men would and runs away from her, he also had had their marriage certificate with him. For the next few years she keeps hunting him down no matter where he is but never gets a chance to talk with him, the reason she's after him is to get the marriage certificate back and he didn't realize it. Also about the sudden engagement, on the date where she agreed to getting married she was also a bit drunk for the first time in her life and that was the main reason she said yes to his proposal. But a sobered up Hikaru realized she had made a mistake which is where the lie about her being a man came from, when Kato heard she said she was a 'man' he beat a path back to Tokyo and hopefully out of her life.

 Eventually Hikaru did track Kato down and had him cornered on the clinic boat where he couldn't escape from her. He revealed to most of them when she wasn't around about her being a man, they quickly learned that it wasn't true but to the very end Kato never learned the truth. Hikaru explained to him the real reason she had chased him all around and that was to get back the marriage certificate, she didn't tell him that her being a man was a lie but told him that she was getting married. Well you know what went through Kato's mind when he heard that, still find it hard to fathom that he kept believing she was a man, didn't make sense why he thought that way. Hikaru's boyfriend had followed her to the boat, at one tome they were going to get married but she broke it off, she really had zero confidence in herself about anything, she was constantly apologizing for everything and if something bad happened she presumed it was her fault. Hikaru and her boyfriend left Kato to have it out between them selves, they picked the most rundown shack in the area, Kato followed them and tried to make peace between them. But as he was doing that Hikaru fell against a pillar and the shack being so rundown the ceiling collapsed upon the two men.

 Wrapping this up Hikuru was able to get in touch with Nurse Mako who came out and tried to save the men, Kato was actually alright but Hikaru's boyfriend was trapped under the ceiling and was badly hurt. Eventually the other doctors from the boat came out to the shack and everyone was saved, Hikaru's boyfriend was injured but nothing too serious. Episode comes to a conclusion with Hikaru finally accepting the proposal and is going to get married, naturally Kato was thinking "two men getting married"?
 For the most part that's about how the episode went, bit of a thin story, knew some of the shows would be like this which is why I've only been watching a few of the episodes, this was my 3rd one but will end up watching the next one too. This series reminds me a bit of the Unibore Deka drama, that too had a plot similar to this, that's another one I just watched half of.
 Erika was quite good in this but saying she did well is nothing new, she also looked fantastic in this episode. Guess that will be it for her in this series, she did make two other small cameos, was hoping she'd have a big part in a few more episodes but doesn't look like that will happen. Next post of course has a mega amount of screenshots of a dazzling you-know-who, enjoy them as they really look fabulous.

Erika Toda: Umi no Ue no Shinryoujo drama episode 7 screenshots

 The second new SPEC Close movie opens Friday, will be back hopefully tomorrow with some news and pics from the premiere, really a shame there will be no more SPEC. As far as Erika goes no news about any upcoming dramas or movies, there is one TV movie airing on WOWOW in December, filming on that that was done many months ago so sadly no clue what's next for her, the world is a much better place with an active Erika! Story here about Hikaru being a 'man' was a bit hard to swallow, Dr. Kato bought it but how can a female that stunning be anything but female!?