Nogizaka46 Tsutsui Ayame is on the cover! Announcement of the first lineup of “20±SWEET2025 JANUARY” featuring 10 beautiful “Hatachi” women

■Ayame Tsutsui has achieved this feat for the first time in history by appearing on the solo covers of all media published by the BLT editorial department!

“20±SWEET 2025 JANUARY” (Tokyo News Service), a “sweet” new style photo book that approaches idols who are running through the current “Hatachi” with high quality gravure and interviews, will be released in 2025. Released on January 10th. This year’s cover will be Nogizaka46’s Ayame Tsutsui.

Ahead of the release of their 37th single “Handobashi” on December 11th, Nogizaka46 has announced that they will appear on “NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen”, which will be broadcast at the end of the year, for the 10th consecutive year. Among the group, Tsutsui, who reached the milestone of 20 years old, not only served as the center of Under Live for the first time this year, but also opened a personal Instagram and appeared in a movie, making it a truly breakthrough year.

This time, Tsutsui was photographed at a temple surrounded by beautiful autumn leaves and one of the most powerful power spots in the Kanto region, where the power of a tengu resides. While retaining a somewhat childish atmosphere, Tsutsui’s red long-sleeved kimono clearly captures her current beauty as she turns 20.

In addition, with the cover of this “20±SWEET” series decided, Tsutsui has been featured in periodicals such as “BLT” and “blt graph.” since joining the group at the age of 14, as well as having graduated with the theme of graduation. Mook “BLTgraduation” series’ junior high school graduation and high school graduation, “BLTSUMMER” whose concept is “summer, uniforms, and youthful graffiti of beautiful girls” CANDY” series, and will be featured as a solo cover artist for all media published by the BLT editorial department. This is the first such feat in history.

“20±SWEET (Twenty Sweet) 2025 JANUARY” features 10 “Hatachi” beauties. In addition to Tsutsui, the first lineup also included AKB48’s Kisei Sato, =LOVE Juara Saito, ≠ME’s Momo Sakurai, and Aozora’s Suzuki Hayasaki, who I wanted to see.

PHOTO BY Kojiro Hosoi *Ayame Tsutsui