next gravure is already on the way... Young Animal, 9 pages, 12/22 on sale http://asukyann.blog.jp/archives/73496815.html
I an also a Miku fan, and when I saw the pics from her shoot I was .... ..... whoa. You're right, she'll probably get Yunana attention, didn't know she has a hidden figure like Kitano Ruka. I feel like the older classman who sees her at the beach for the first time and was like .... .... whoa.
Mikurin is so grown! She has this different aura now... I think she needs to be HKT48’s next single center! Romantic Byou was such a great song, great vibe and rhythm! Other groups tend to focus on what the public favors, I don’t see why HKT48’s management wouldn’t want to profit from Mikurin’s amazing rise!
I understand that management is trying to put a fresh face to HKT48, but Mikurin is having such an amazing growth, one can dream that management would see all the potential and push Miku forward as the new HKT48 representative in the 48G...
I agree. Management is blind. Found this in one of the links above. I think it gives a glimpse of what Miku will be like a few years into the future. Kind of like a combination of Mano Erina and Arimura Kasumi.
Especially considering that Sasshi+important 1st and 2nd members gonna graduate sooner or later so they have other members to pick up the slack!
Beautiful for sure, but I think she is using too much camera angle and technique in those shots. She has a naturally round face and its very cute.
another bikini gravure this time in Young Animal http://asukyann.blog.jp/archives/73695439.html https://twitter.com/ryoc417/status/943850872429088768 https://twitter.com/sakulovesekky/status/943845247984877568
Wow. She is amazing looking. I kind of thought she'd be a bit chubby with a bit of a boyish figure. Instead she is very slim with great proportions. No way management is going to ignore Miku anymore. In one photo shot she has proven to be up there with the best of 48G. I'm actually against the "hotter" gravure poses for Idols. Gravure tends to gets too sexualized in a perverted way. No legs spreading, no butt cheeks half hanging out - instead, poses that I'd approve for my little sister.
I've never expected Mikurin to be center even though I've been supporting her since her debut. UNTIL NOW. She's been garnering a lot of attention since her first bikini gravure and she'll probably be getting a good position for the next single, if not the center. But I hope she doesn't head down the Yunana route where there are so many gravures it's getting boring.
What I fear if Mikurin is a single center is that if the single sales is worse than previous, some people would blame on her. But indeed, HKT48 is in downfall but chance of revival in the future is possible.
With Yunana I have a problem not of overexposure, but lack of strong points: while she is usually a disburbingly big and cheerful smiley, in gravure she is somehow like a sad doll. Dunno why. Miku so far feels a lot more natural and fit for the purpose. Just like Ogura Yuka, that despite not being attached to a big brand is really making a splash in the gravure world. Some of these few photosets I've got so far have plain awesome and iconic photos.