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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!
Don't think that Nagi is a true 'savior' for today as I didn't attempt to try working on a different post, perhaps there's a few others that could have been larger! But when I have the urge to do a post for a favorite of mine I'll work my darndest to make it happen which it usually does. Though this is just Nagi's ninth post to date they've all come within the last fifteen months and in that short amount of time Nagi has honestly become one of my top ten favorites, possibly very soon will be in the top five! Today's post is one of the smaller ones of the year but there are over fifty new photos which works out well for me as there's another post I need to work on.
This makes it six posts for Nagi this year, all have been in the last ten months and hoping next year that average can increase to one a month. With her fifth post Nagi did qualify for this year's faves list but I wanted her to have at least one more for I think she'll end up with a high position on the list so it'll be a case of extreme quality over quantity. Nagi is also very popular with you viewers as those previous five posts have close to an average of 900 views and there's still time for them to reach a thousand before the year ends. Nagi's second post that was done fourteen months ago was for her only photobook to date, will reveal next month what the figure is but almost positive that post has set a new record for views in a year which it did deserve.
Could have made this post larger but wanted to hold some photos back for Nagi's next post which should be in mid-December. Even though she'll just have six posts when the 'Nao Year' ends on November 30th those posts have all been terrific plus I still can't get enough of her overly perfect photobook. I'm expecting Nagi to be in the fifth position on the list and try to make those posts huge so am holding back one event that happened ten days ago plus a few modeling pics, that next post will be right before X-Mas so there should be plenty of pictures for the holiday. Plus Nogi's next single "Kimi Loss" is coming out on December 2nd so there should be some things for that. December will make it three consecutive months with a post and as mentioned above would love to average one a month for next year so hope Nagi is perusing this post....
Many of the above pictures are from Nagi's first photobook that came out in April 2025, last Autumn it became my #1 of all time!!!! Here we are a year later and somehow the photos in the book look even better, how is that possible?! So Nagi's book is no longer just number one but has zoomed so far in front of every other photobook that's ever been published or ever will be so I can't see any woman ever topping that book! Which may go for Nagi also for how can she top such a masterpiece, now when you look up the definition of Perfection in the dictionary there's no words but one of Nagi's alluring pics from the book!!!!!!!!!!
It will be close to impossible for Nagi to top her own book but can't wait to see how her follow-up will be, sure another masterpiece of perfection! First up are these recent photos from Nagi's IG page which also get posted at Nogi's blog, the fourth and fifth pics are from that event ten days ago and will have a different batch of event photos to end off the post. The bottom three are for Nagi's current Taiga drama "Toyotomi Brothers", she has a recurring role in that long series and she'll also be singing the theme song of an anime coming out this Friday. That first photo is from earlier this year and has been posted before but having it yet again as I think it is just so fabulous!
Don't have any new Nogi cards but think many will soon be coming out for the new single, Christmas and New Year's. Over the years have noticed the members don't get the same amount of cards, some get twice as many as other members and can't figure out why? For you'd think the more popular members would have the most cards which isn't always the case, Nagi seems to have fewer than almost any other Nogi gal the last few years. Nagi was the cover girl for the December edition of Biteki but what a small spread it was with just three pages but the photos were of course amazing! Below are the photos from the spread which I do have and that'll be in her next post but to me the photos with no text are much better.
Nagi has been a FT model for the Non-no magazine since April 2024, to me only one other woman I currently post about has better regular modeling pics than Nagi. These stupendous pics are brand new from their site but am holding back a few for her next post. That first picture is Out of this World(!) and an excellent idea for a 2027 post will be to have Nagi's top Non-no photos in one post but she has so many may need two posts....
Here's a small batch I hadn't planned n having with are some of Nagi hosting the "School of Locks" radio show. I had forgotten she left that show in March, she had been a host since January 2024 and the photos below are from a year ago or her November 2025 shows. There's no doubt in the bottom three pics Nagi was figuring out what the quickest route to my house would be(!) but here we are a year later and she still hasn't arrived.... sigh, .....
For the finale have some wondrous photos from an event Nagi attended on November 6th, she seems to appear at quite a few of them which bolds well for future posts. Nagi also attends most of those large fashion shows which start up again in mid-January. This event was the premiere of the anime movie "Grotesqqque" and that is the way its spelled, Nagi voices the character of Ayame and a few other voice actresses I've done post for also voiced some characters. After the photos have a newish Nagi CM for Make Keep cosmetics, she's one of the few Idols that does have decent new videos as there's a new one at the Nogi YT channel and a few from her past two events plus some older ones for Non-no.