Shida Manaka (Mona) / Keyakizaka46 1st Generation

Nice to see hear that she is getting some modeling gigs.

 

I'm grinning uncontrollably. The QALB Instagram gallery has 2400 followers. Manaka's pic has twice that number of likes. It's good work for them to have chosen Manaka. ADNA is "a street brand from Korea," according to an online shop's page. I didn't know. Shop's main QALB page. As others here may know better than I, QALB قلب , means "heart" in Arabic.

This is a small beginning. Let's hope more and bigger things await King Mona.

 

The King is back......

https://twitter.com/pivotdoor/status/1154716402390986752

I think I'm gonna cry

 

Mona-chan first pictures from PIVOT DOOR.

 

PIVOT DOOR just published some more Mona-chan pictures.

 

Mona's gaze = Spirit of Keyakizaka46

 

monarisa crumbs
this gives me hope for a future reunion in TGC

 

The photos and the video promo linked to by @Dill above are fantastic. I wonder who the photographer/cinematographer and stylist were. This feels like Manaka herself: bold, aggressive, scared, wistful, sexy, friendly, strong, weak, imperfect, joyful, humorous, dependable, physical, beautiful, sad. A full-scale and real-seeming person.

But I can't find much info about the "pivotdoor" brand, which sells online and warns people it has its warehouses "overseas" and delivery will take three weeks. I think that's a very long time by Japanese standards. Their style works, though, I think, and works for Shida-san.

I believe the black shirt posted by @Xiphyas above is trying to say in French: (front) "cherish yourself." (back) "what's been lost doesn't matter. don't ask anything."

 

Mona-chan recent pictures in PIVOT DOOR.

 

Sometime it happens that two Keyaki graduates (Shida and Zuumin) speak on twitter

https://twitter.com/_manaka_shida_/status/1166260895216893955

Other than this, Shida is quite active on social

 

Are Adna, Qalb, and Pivot Door different entities?

 

Pivotdoor has just sent out a notice apologizing profusely because they got so many orders that it will take longer than normal to get people's purchases to them. The notice doesn't mention Manaka, but the replies to the tweet sure do, lol. One says it's "Manaka-chan power".

I don't know, but it appears that Adna and Qalb are related, while Pivotdoor is something else.

 

So Mona is the first Sakamichi member - active or graduated (in this case the latter) - for sure to have a belly button piercing?

Recent Instagram story


Recent Twitter conversation

(Does any other Sakamichi member, active or graduated, have a belly button piercing, aside Mona?)

 

I think she is the most definition of rebel/rock. Very fitting to Keyaki's image. Just that even though Keyaki is supposed to be rebellious, they should still maintain the proper good-girl image of an idol. If only one day there's a Sakamichi group that's truly all-out doing rock that'll be awesome. Though in the first place it might not even be recognised as an "idol group" if they did

 

Did she remove her Instagram account ?

 

So it seems. Twitter is still there

 

She just changed her username to manaka.shida.98

 

different day, usual Shida.
She needs to update her twitter BIO with the right link