Nao Kanzaki's Japanese and Korean drama emporium: Miona Hori: "Itsunomanika" graduation photobook scans

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".

Sunday, September 18, 2022

Miona Hori: "Itsunomanika" graduation photobook scans

May be slow for another day or two and then I hope a slew of posts will be coming your way. There's a TGC show this Saturday and so many of my faves will be there so been holding back a few of their recent things. The best laid plans rarely work out but if things do this time the next seven to ten days could be jammed packed with posts. It's not an official tradition but seven months ago began starting a month off with a overly fabulous photobook and this one here certainly is! However had been planning to have a different book for today but that one came out in June and thought I'd wait another week or so, that book I think the vast majority will end up liking more but to me this one is better!

Miona's last post was only ten days ago and that was her post for her position on the 'All Time Top Twenty Faves' list, she was in the 13th spot. Was just looking and she's getting so close to 200 posts and it's hard to say anything that hasn't been said yet. Many Nogi members are around or over that 200 post mark but what makes it more special for Miona is that most of hers have been solo posts. This book was released on April 20, 2021 which was a little over three weeks after her Nogi graduation. Miona's first two books each sold close to 80,000 copies but this one only sold around 45,000, think fans were and still are a bit tired of graduation photobooks as there was only one regular book in about a sixteen month stretch while there were seven grad books.

To me this is truly one superb book and enjoy how there's some variety to it. As you can see above there's gravure pics and does Miona make my blood boil! There's also some fashion pics, wedding ones, few with text and of course some pics with her second generation members. Miona more than anyone else always tried to promote the 2G gals but sadly management didn't listen to her enough, there's just one member left from that generation! Like all recent Idol books the photo shoots had to take place in Japan, title of the PB translates over to Unnoticed. Haven't had this for too long and was thinking about holding on to it until October 15th which is Miona's 26th birthday. Couldn't see the sense in that and sure I'll be able to do a post for her on that day. On to the pics which total 122, guess the only negative things is that this could be Miona's final photobook and all have been so tremendous....