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".
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Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Rika Izumi: Happy.... 34th Birthday!!!!
Most birthday posts aren't anything special, this could be considered an ordinary post and you don't use that word often to describe Rika! Thought this was a slower year for her but this is tenth post which averages out to one a month, bit surprised she's had that many. Two years ago had babbled about how I thought Rika's posts would be slowing down drastically in the future, think that was the post for her 32ned birthday. Here we are two years later and she's remained one of the few actress/models who I can do posts for on a consistent basis.
Five years in a row Rika has made the yearly faces list and want to hear about consistency? Her positions have been second, third, fourth, fifth and sixth in the last five years, no one will ever top that semi oddball stat. If the pattern was to continue this year she would be first or seventh, neither will be happening. So while Rika has had a lot of posts in 2022 and all of them have been superb she's kind of fallen into a rut. There's not nearly as much variety in her activities as there once was and though no one tops her regular modeling pics wish she would 'vamp' it up on occasion. Won't begin the countdown until the last week of November and will do a post very soon to talk whatever about it. But unless something extraordinary takes place in the next six weeks think Rika will drop down to the 14th or so position, save for one all my top actress/models will drop this year.
Last year Rika had her first lead role in a drama which was titled "Takane no Hana-san". It was kind of a silly drama but one that I found enjoyable and did recap the entire series. A second season began a week ago, it is being subbed but not sure if I'll have access to them but if so will recap this new season also. Her true 34th birthday takes place on October 11th, if you're in Japan it is that date but here in the States there's another eight hours to go. So of course there's no new birthday pics but then again there may not be for this year as there's so few of them from the past.
Actually that bottom pic is new and is from the set of the new drama. So for the most part every Rika post this year has been the same to an extent, many new and terrific modeling pics and a pair of mag spreads which are usually from the same magazines. She's only appeared at two events this year which is such a shame as she looks so elegant at them. Let's get to the new pics and almost all have come out since Rika's last post which was just three weeks ago. Plus she had another post three weeks before that as she had finished in the eighth position on the 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time'' list. First off for new modeling pics are these for AnySis.
Not too many in that above batch but there are a bit in this one for the Vis Autumn collection.
Rika has never done all that much gravure modeling, mainly in her two photobooks and on occasion in a mag spread from 2017-2019. Back in 2017 she was a model for Amphi lingerie and have never been able to find all that many pics as most have been deleted at their site. She's 34 in age but she blows away 99% of the gravure models and Idols a decade younger.
First of two spreads for today is from the November issue of Oggi. Am going to hold off on Rika's pics from their site for her next post as there weren't all that many. As you can see she's modeling golf clothing and she's done some Oggi videos for the sport which she took up two years ago.
Much bigger and better Rika spread from the October issue of Bijin Hyakka.
My top Rika modeling pics are for Stola but there were very few new pics at their site, then again have done three posts for her in only six weeks! But do have some new pics from the Snidel site and how about those bottom two!!!!
We're already at the end and will end off with these 'greatest hits' pics but wish there some new ones in this vein. Many actress/models who have hit the age of 35 or so have released a photobook and in my eyes all have been superb, who wouldn't want to see another dazzling book from Rika! Not sure if I've posted it before but after the pics is a video from the photo shoot for those Snidel pics.
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