2016-09-08

Hirate Yurina -- such changes in less than a year

Hirate Yurina has become an overwhelming presence. Her expressiveness, her dancing, her determination, her purity of spirit. They have made her the face and the leader of Keyakizaka46.

Keyakizaka46 news websites in Japan are now beginning to look back over the year, at the changes she has undergone. Let's do that here, too.

A photo from home, before she came to Tokyo to start training.

Uncertain, being introduced on the Keyakitte, Kakenai TV show last November


In her element, at the Keyakizaka athletics meet

Pleased and embarrassed at being first in the hop, skip and jump; second in the high jump; third in the bridge...at 14.
Beginning to refine her looks as an entertainer

Gaining some ease by joking around with Neru.

The pressure mounts: just before the release of Silent Majority
The whirlwind of magazine shoots

Tired out from practice and performance
How many years has it been since that first photo?

Still girlish in her Hustle Press shoot

Her most amazing dance performance, Kataru nara Mirai wo...

Kataru nara Mirai wo...
Her karate lesson

Her latest photo-shoot

But off-camera, still the same natural girl...almost

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