The gravure comebacks are arriving thick and fast. The end of the year is turning into a bit of a nostalgia blitz.
Just after Chinatsu Wakatsuki’s return to gravure after a 19-year gap and similar highly anticipated comebacks by the likes of Rina Aizawa and Rina Koike, here’s another lady who used to be a staple of gravure magazines.
Serina, formerly of AKB48 spin-off group SDN48, was a big part of our lives in the early 2010s.
SDN48, as readers with long memories may recall, was a short-lived music idol group formed to be a sexier version of AKB48. It failed to catch on and disbanded in 2012.
The slinky Serina already made a mini comeback in 2021 with a semi-nude photo book, which was her first in a decade.
But now she’s 39 years old and, like Maki Goto, is aging like a fine wine.
The mononymous Hokkaido native is back with a new digital photo book, New Stages, which shows that her body is just as slender and willowy as it was in the late 2000s and early 2010s.
She has also appeared in a gravure shoot for the manga weekly Young Magazine for the first time in 12 years.
She sadly hasn’t gone nude for her new photo book, but fans will still love seeing how well their old crush is aging.
In August, she left her management agency of 15 years and is now also working as an idol group producer.
