Highlights from ex-AKB48 Ayaka Umeda’s nude photo book

It seems a long time since current or past members of AKB48 have made a real impression on the public at large. The power of the supergroup has waned significantly and its members are rarely seen in major advertising campaigns like they were in the 2000s and early 2010s, though we still try to follow what certain present and former idols are up to these days.

Ayaka Umeda is now 33 years old. She left AKB48 in 2016 after 10 years with the group, and has since established herself as an actor. What a great age, and it really shows.

Her second photo book, “Etude,” is out now, and here are a few highlights that we culled from the interwebs. The book is publicized as “semi-nude,” though it is, strictly speaking, nude — you get to see Ayaka’s lovely butt and a lot of her body from the side while she takes a shower or lies on a bed.

The definitional line is perhaps the absence of breasts/nipples on display here. That academic question of whether the photo book merits the label “nude” or “semi-nude” aside, it’s all a marked improvement on her relatively tame first photo book that came out in 2018.

Umeda is not known for her curves: in fact, her flat chest drew the ire of netizens a while ago.

There shouldn’t be any such complaints coming her way this time. We certainly prefer this older jukujo version of Ayaka Umeda. A maturer look means a more alluring look!