It’s Sengoku Minami, and today is her 17th birthday in the United States. Happy birthday, Mina!

Mina is my favorite member of Ongaku Gatas, despite the fact that I couldn’t give two shits for the music, tour schedule, or Hello! Project alumnae of that group. She’s just absolutely drop-dead gorgeous in every sense of the word. I can’t even think of going one more day without her having a solo photobook but I know I’m going to have to because she’s probably not on UFA’s “To Pimp” list. Hell, now that Mano is gone, I’m not sure who is. It’d be much more productive of them to continue to let the alumnae of the group sit on their long-cultivated fame and focus on building decent idols out of all the Eggs in the group (including Korenaga the former Egg).

In truth, Minami is not really good at much. She has no interesting special talents, not much of a dancer, not much of a singer. Even her personality is flat (for now, but I feel it’s something she’s trying to work on). But c’mon, how can you look at a face like that and say “sry give me more Mano plz”? Especially when Mano isn’t much better in the talent department…