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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!
.... however if you're in Japan it is October 6th which is the official date for Natsuki's 27th birthday. I'm not moaning for now as a fabulous post has been able to be done every day but they are getting so much more difficult to do, not sure what I may have done if it wasn't for this post. So may take a day or two off in the next week, if that happens you'll know it's because there were so few things to post about. But after that the posts should be coming much easier for me as four of my favorites have photobooks coming out plus there's more birthdays in October than any other month. What's also been hurting to an extent as there's been a rash of marriages this year for the women I prefer doing posts for, one got hitched at the end of March, two more within the past month and think there may have been at least one other this year so as I've mused about before there may not be anyone left in the future to post about....
Natsuki currently has the most viewed post for the past month and that's for her second regular photobook "Pursuit". That post was done over eight months ago and has over 5,500 views, as of now it's been the second most viewed post for 2026. Many times have said how Natsuki is the most popular woman the last two years with you viewers and that's true though it seems her posts this year haven't been receiving as many as the ones prior to that January post. This makes it seven posts for Natsuki and for the first time she's qualified for the yearly faves list. The countdown for my top favorites of 2026 will begin in the first week of December and try to get it done by the 22nd. To date eighteen women have the five or more posts needed to be eligible which is one more than last year, at least one other will make it to five posts and the goal is to have twenty qualify.
Even though Natsuki has set a personal record with seven posts she's been extremely quiet since February. That was when she had her final magazine spread and digital book for the year come out, I've been wondering has she 'retired' from gravure modeling? I sure hope not as besides having a photobook in 2022 Natsuki's gravure career only lasted from September 2023 to late last year, the things from this year were from 2025 photo shoots. Natsuki's last five posts have mainly featured older digital books that I had finally obtained, will have one for today and have two more which will catch me up with all of them. So will have a post next month with one of those books, then the other will be in the post for whatever Natsuki's position will be for the this year's faves list. Then we need to see Natsuki make some sort of return, I've noticed she does quite a bit of traveling but besides that don't think she has any sort of regular FT work as others I post about do such as acting, singing, modeling, etc.
Natsuki does have a YT Vlog and does upload many interesting videos, none are from gravure photo shoots but most are worth a view and will have her newest one at the bottom of the post. Though it's been a semi-quiet year for Natsuki have some terrific new IG photos which are right below, the bottom five are from a recent trip to Singapore. Besides this batch also have about seventy others which should all be brand new for here.
No Natsuki 'Birthday Suit' photos and that's not a bad thing as I know my heart couldn't take it..... bet the same goes for most reading this! Natsuki does have many older pictures from prior birthdays and was surprised she's had so many as there's even more than these. Natsuki has such an elegant aura about her but wish she had more photos of her being 'laid back' and playing a video game or drinking a beer instead of some hundred year old champagne.... gulp, isn't that first pic something else?!
As mentioned Natsuki's last magazine spread was in February but she hasn't said that she would no longer be doing anymore gravure modeling which we all hope doesn't happen. There being no new mag spreads will go back close to three years for this set that's from the November 13,2023 issue of WPB that featured outtake pics from a digital book. The other two books you'll be seeing soon were both published by WPB in 2024, Natsuki has done much more work for them than any other magazine.
Many times I've gushed about how Natsuki's modeling pictures for the Jewels site are my favorites of all time, it's impossible for me to ever get tired of gaping at them! Have posted hundreds of them but still have many that you've never seen before such as the batch below. Natsuki was a model for the site from 2022-24 and if she has retired from gravure modeling why not do photo shoots such as these pictures?
We've hit the end, it didn't seem like a large post but bet there were close to a hundred pictures. For the finale have this 2024 digital book that was released by the Larme magazine on January 5th and it has the title of "XOXO". After this mini book that has 44 photos is the last video Natsuki has uploaded to her YT Vlog, it was from an August trip she took to Kamikochi. There's many other videos to check out at her site plus there's links to her Natsuki's club along with her IG and X pages.
