Nao Kanzaki's Japanese and Korean drama emporium: Minami Hamabe: Few recent tidbits....

Konnichiwa and Annyeong Haseyo minna-san

Konnichiwa and Annyeong Haseyo minna-san

Hope that's correct above but what I'm saying is welcome everyone. May 10, 2019 is the first day of this blog and many may know me from 'Nao Kanzaki and Friends'... aitoda.com. There I have such a mix of things and finally decided to branch out with just a blog devoted to Japanese and Korean dramas. Will also be having some film reviews but one thing you won't see are any J-Pop idols or gravure models except for their dramas, this blog is dedicated 100% to dramas and films.

Also actresses as will be having many, many posts for them. Such as them appearing at events, mag spreads, interview pics and whatever else. So you should be seeing a lot of my bigger long time faves such as Erika Toda, Park Min-Young, Lee Yeon-Hee, Tsubasa Honda and too many others to count. The first few weeks there many not be too many posts for new dramas as I'll be copying many recaps from the old blog along with some film reviews and actress posts.

Won't be going too far back, perhaps to 2015 with a few exceptions and will have an entire series in a row to make it easy to follow. Did find it a problem completing series at the Nao Kanzaki blog, won't be doing that here as all the series will have a post for every episode. Thanks for visiting, it'll will be a work in progress for a while here but hopefully not for too long. Comments are also appreciated, like to know your opinions on dramas and for any recommendations you may have.

News and upcoming projects

News and upcoming projects

Should have done this on my Aitoda blog which is to let viewers know what's going on. Seems like a good way to let everyone know if I'll be taking a break, what to look forward to and any other tidbits.

Updating update, May 19th:

Whew, have finally finished transferring over enough posts from the Aitoda blog. May be a few here and there in the future for some new that's being introduced but there shouldn't be too many. Have also included announcers for women that I'll be posting about as my top two current faves just happen to be in that profession.

The first five episodes of '3-Nen A Gumi' have now been posted. For series over five shows will be doing two batches of them as I figure ten posts are way too many to read through during one sitting so will have the second half of the drama coming up in 2-3 weeks, highly recommend the show.

June 4th.... Have written up the recaps for episodes 7 and 8 of the '3-Nen A Gumi' show and will have those long with episode eight by June 6th. Up next for Korean dramas is up in the air but leaning towards a pair of shorter series which will be either "Splish Splash Love" or "The Universe's Star".

Thursday, June 17, 2021

Minami Hamabe: Few recent tidbits....

Minami's last post was on May 2nd which wasn't that long ago. But thought there would have been one a week after for the premiere of the "Kakegurui 2" film that came out on April 29th. That post didn't happen as there was no premiere for the film which at the time baffled me. But found out what happened two weeks ago and will explain it at the bottom of the post. Minami has finally seen her fan base grow quite a bit here as she's had two posts hit the top ten section for 'Most views in a month' after having zero prior to this year. This is Minami's seventh post so she's already qualified for the yearly fave's list and this will be the first year she's eligible.

Finally eligible because of age and Minami will be turning 21 in exactly three months. These days you have to be 22 in age to be introduced but did 'grandmother' her and two others in as I wasn't going to just stop posting about them. Since Minami was introduced she's been the youngest woman I post about but she's so much more mature than others older than she is plus she's a superb actress and also such a likable gal. So my tweaking to that age rule is that she'll always be the youngest person I post about so you'll never see a post for anyone born after August 29, 2000.

Because of her age can never go back for older activities but that's fine as there aren't many busier actresses than Minami and never have to wait that long for new pics. Have 46 new ones for today and could have made this post a bit bigger but am hoping there will be another post a week from today so no sense using up everything. First off have some pics from the Menicon site for Rei contact lenses and you can view her new CM here, there's also two more: Rei CM

Been noticing Minami has been doing more modeling work this year. She's a model for two magazines and here's some recent pics from the Vogue site.

Smallish spread from the June issue of Sweet, wish Minami appeared in more mags.

Those above were promoting clothes for the GRL line, some other new pics from the Sweet site.

This many be the quickest post I write up all year, there are 46 new pics but it didn't seem it but did say was holding some things back. The reason there wasn't an April 29th premiere for the "Kakegurui 2" movie is because it was delayed which I didn't learn about until two weeks ago. The new release date for the film is this Tuesday, June 1st and that's an odd day for a film premiere. Hope to have a post a few days after that but there was also another event for the film. It was a special screening of the film that took place on May 27th at the TOHO Cinemas in Hibiya. Plenty of fine pics from the event and following them is a video of it. But what I really need to do is a pair of posts for her costars. One is Elaiza who is such a huge fave here but I like Aoi immensely and will work on a post(s) for them.