Nagahama Neru blog: Kouhaku and New Year's

New Year's,  324

Nagahama Neru
2019.01.01


Happy New Year!


Kouhaku was like a dream...

Garasu wo Ware! and
The opening and the ending and
Backstage looking out at the stage, as well:
Every moment was a vision.


Did you all watch?

Risa and Nao-chan among most popular Sakamichis at Girls Award; Nao-chan to model for Seventeen

Someone has judged the popularity of the various Sakamichi models at Girls' Award last week by counting likes and retweets on Twitter (I think just from the Modelpress account, which covered the event).

And Nao-chan (Kosaka Nao, Hiragana 2gen) and Risa (Watanabe Risa) are up there just after the Nogi top three. Nao-chan is bursting onto the scene in a big way.

Kakizaki Memi blog: Neru's birthday, and the coming of autumn

Neruu

Kakizaki Memi
2017.09.04


Good evening,
It's Kakizaki Memi.

Today is Neru and Takahiro-sensei's birthday (๑•᎑•๑)
Happy Birthday !!!

May it be a wonderful year for you ✧*。

 

I love NeruNeru \ ♥ /

Kakizaki Memi blog: Handshake event outfits

Zoo

Kakizaki Memi
2017.08.14


Good evening,
It's Kakizaki Memi.

Today was a handshake event in Nagoya!

My dress for the 1st and 2nd sessions:

Pink ♥

Suzumoto Miyu, Princess of the Mona Kingdom

Suzumoto Miyu is the Princess of the Mona Kingdom: the subject who loves freedom second only to Manaka herself. So says a piece in the September issue of BUBKA magazine.

Harada Aoi blog: Onigiri, baseball, a yukata covered with kisses...plus birthday photos

Aoi's blog is often about food. In Thursday's post she was eager to eat the onigiri (filled rice-ball) you see in the pictures:

Shida Manaka blog: On the cover of Souen magazine!

☺︎

Shida Manaka
2017.05.30


Waaai! Risa brought it to me.

Watanabe Risa blog: Risa the model

Everyone.

Watanabe Risa
2017.03.26


I'm sorry this post is late.


Today I appeared in TOKYO GIRLS COLLECTION 2017 SPRING/SUMMER.

To those who came, and to those who watched on LINELIVE, thank you very much!

I appeared with Asuka-san and Nishino-san on the LOWRYS FARM stage!
I had my picture taken with Nishino-san. And Asuka-san spoke with me!

I'm really not used to being on my own...I absolutely have to get used to it...although this goes without saying...

At times like these, I feel again how important the members are to me.

Many messages came to me from everyone!
Thank you!! ♡

Nagahama Neru blog: KeyaBINGO, early riser, 4th single

Washing,   168

Nagahama Neru
2017.02.16

Good evening ~

Getting up early is so refreshing!!
I love sleeping,
But I want to make good use of the morning hours!

I'll become a morning person, eh.

It was fun to be a yankee.

Watanabe Risa blog: Next week's KeyaBINGO

Posting after a long time

Watanabe Risa
2017.02.08


Sorry for the wait...


Some photos I wanted to post have finally been released.

The upcoming KeyaBINGO!2 has already had a bit of preview...

Next week is "No.1 Bad Girl Competition!"
Everyone became bad in one way or another.

Sorry it's not a full-length photo,
But I was wearing a biker jacket ~

It was something I could never normally wear, but in the end I really got into it and enjoyed it (lol).

Bubka magazine: The Jests of King Mona

The Jests of King Mona

Kings, Aristocrats, Daimyous, Generalissimos, Emperors, Great Men...Keyakizaka46 cannot be commanded by even such powerful beings.

But before Shida Manaka, these girls become "playthings" and "prey." During the group's debut, the smiles were sealed away. But her miraculous full visage is now finally revealed: her unreasonable requests producing an infinity of smiles.

If it's fun

-- Last time, the plan was for Shida-san and Oda Nana to talk about "Watanabe Rika-san, the living being wrapped in mystery." That was the theme.

Shida: That's what I had understood. But when I saw the feature's title, I thought: "...what?"

-- You mean that the title became "Manaka's toy"?

Shida: "What's all this?" I thought. (Laughs.)

-- During the interview, we noticed that Shida-san toying with them was funny, and it made Watanabe-san and Oda-san funny. So we quickly changed the title.

Shida: Ahaha. So that's what it was.

Shida Manaka blog post: I never want to grow up!

Properly

Shida Manaka
2016.01.26


I can't write an essay properly. It's no good.

What can I write....

Ah. At the handshake event, Risa and Akanen and I chased each other around.
I was just determined to run away.
Those two are really scary.
I seriously ran away. Lol.
They're scary, really.

Then what was it....

We ran around screaming and so on. Was that what we did? Lol.

It was so much fun to be with everybody 〜( ´ ▽ ` )

I may come to look like an adult, but in my heart I want to stay 17 forever.

I want everyone in Keyaki and I to keep on playing around and laughing this much ~!

Let's not become adults at all!!

I love everyone just as they are now!

Shida Manaka as a Cat

Some photos of Shida Manaka as a cat, from the Twitter timeline of @Thecool_Yahho, from her "Keyakizaka members as animals" series (click images for full size):

Akanen, Mona, Techi, Neru, Rika, Risa, Sugai on Mezamashi TV

Seven members of Keyakizaka46 appeared on the popular morning show Mezamashi TV on Wednesday morning, with Moriya Akane taking a star turn.

Asked what her goal for the year was, Akanen said that it was to be a weather-caster on Mezamashi TV. The host asked what the weather in her heart was, and she replied that she was experiencing fine weather, and her smile was in full bloom. The rest of the members were all stifling laughter.



Finally Sugai stepped in to tell her to stop there. A 2channel comment thanked Yukka for providing a graceful exit. But really, Akanen was great!

This still photo got lots of comment:

Watanabe Risa blog post: Lingering memories

Lingering memories

Watanabe Risa
2017.01.04

Happy New Year, everyone.
Even though I'm a little late.

On New Year's Eve 2016, we were given the chance to appear on Kouhaku Song Battle.
I was more nervous than I've ever been...then suddenly it was over.

When people ask me "How was it?" I'm not really able to answer.
I was so nervous that my mind went blank.


In 2016, I was given so many challenges and opportunities. It was a year filled with things to be grateful for.
It was the first year in my life that had been so full and tightly packed.

This year, we want to go and grasp the chances ourselves.

Please continue to support us from now on!

"Za Cool," Watanabe Risa and Shida Manaka: "humility, kindness, bonds." These two certainly have mutual bonds. They have been each other's support almost since the formation of the group.

Fashion photo: Memi - Kumi - Kage (Hiragana Keyaki)...plus WWatanabe

Memi - Kumi - Kage from Overture magazine #9 2016/12/23.

Some actual style. Memi (centre) the closest to a French doll (of a kind) she has yet come. Kumi (left) in something that suits her image, if not her personality. And Kage having kicked soccer to the curb.

Keyakizaka Photos from FNS -- Keyaki-chans

So many great blog posts, so little time. Here are more photos from FNS and after -- this time without outsiders, only Keyaki-chans.

Akanen won the 50m idol "Grand Prix"

Triumphant FNS: Neru, Akanen, Hirate, Ozeki all shine

It was another step up the hill for Keyakizaka46 Wednesday night at the second night of Fuji TV's FNS Song Festival.

• Hirate sang with the Gospellers
• Akanen won a 50m footrace with other idols
• Neru centred the combined forces of the Hiraganas and Nogizaka46's 3rd gen to begin a great Nogi/Keyaki combined version of Seifuku no Mannequin that was the best idol performance of the evening
• Ozeki's sunny smile won hearts when she was singing with HKT's Miyawaki Sakura 

Neru was the big winner, in my opinion. In beginning Mannequin, she was preceded by two beautiful young members of Nogi 3gen...but when Neru came forward with her unsmiling smile, she brought an aura of peace and power. And she proved by her sharp dancing there that she actually can be a centre. Search stats show she was by far the most searched member of the new groups.

Miyawake Sakura and Yamazaki Rena talk about Keyakizaka46 in their blogs

In her blog for Tuesday, Miyawake Sakura of AKB48 and HKT48 says:

The other day, Keyakizaka46
Performed Otona wa Shinjite Kurenai.
It was totally cool.

Berisa was outstanding.
Techi was terrific.
I loved the line of Berisa, Berika and Neru.
And Suzumoto-chan was really cool.

While we're on the subject
Memi-chan of Hiragana Keyaki
Is so cute.


The performance she's referring to was at the end of KeyaKake on Sunday night, and everything she says is true.

Neru, Imaizumi and other Keyakizaka members as little kids

After a few months of "my history" features narrated by members on their birthdays, the Keyakitte Kakenai TV show has built up a collection of baby/toddler pictures. Here they are so far:

This week, it was Neru and Zuumin's turn:

Neru lived on an island from age 3 until first grade. She says she was a short-haired tomboy.

Doesn't seem as if Zuumin was a tomboy.