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Saturday, December 7, 2019

'Top Twenty Faves' countdown for 2019.... #9, Mio Imada



 Starting to zip through these at a good pace now and think the post for #8 will be tomorrow which will put us many days ahead of schedule. That next post should be a top notch one but so isn't this position and to date this could be the best of the twelve posts done so far, perhaps slightly ahead of #17. Mio has really come out of nowhere to an extent, she's been around since 2016 but hadn't done any posts for her until October 2018 and now she already has thirteen posts.
 She's someone who is going to be around for a long time and she's already proved to be a huge fave of so many of you viewers. She's another 'shortie' who has such an incredible figure on her and have some superb new pics to prove that today as her second photobook is coming out next month. Said 'shortie' which is somewhat true as her height is just 157 cm which I think makes her the third shortest to make the list. But Mio is just so incredibly alluring and in the upcoming years I can almost see her having a permanent spot in the top five. She'll be turning 23 next March 5th and think another big fave also has a birthday on that date.
EDIT: Almost forgot to mention that Mio was 11th in all four preliminary posts but think she's done enough to pass a couple of gals and did deserve to be in the top ten.



 Don't be alarmed as this is just a mini recap but did view Mio's guest appearance on episode five of the "Nippon Noir" series which is still airing. She reprised her role as Suwa from the '3-Nen A Gumi' drama that aired earlier this year and would say that's my number one Japanese show of the year. Like many of the students in the series Suwa was kind of an oddball and much of the mysterious plot revolved around her.
 She had been dating a much older man who was the leader of the Berumuzu(?) gang but Suwa dated him just do get ahead in the modeling world as somehow the man had many contacts. He was named Masaomi and like Suwa had a cameo in episode five of "Nippon Noir". Many of the characters from the original series did though the two shows really don't have much in common, #8 on the list had a cameo in the seventh show.
 Masaomi ended up being gunned down in this episode unknown to Suwa who briefly met him at a bar, the events took place six months after '3-Nen' ended. Suwa was just on the screen for two minutes and her modeling career seems to be doing well. Have viewed 2 1/2 episodes but don't plan on watching the entire series which seems to be such an odd one. Will say it's one of the more violent dramas I've ever seen as there's so many killings but perhaps it's just been the shows I've watched.








 Will also have some screenshots for #8's post, the two gals are good friends off screen but surprisingly didn't find more pics than these which are from the set of '3-Nen'.





 Have a little bit of a lot of things as Mio is one of the busier actresses around though she does do just as much modeling work, have over sixty new pics for today. Let's get to some of those new modeling pics such as these for Tiffany.









 Plus some from the GRL site and have had many others in Mio's previous posts.









 Mio's second photobook will be released on January 21st which isn't the best of dates as a popular Nogi member also has a book coming out on that day. Sure we'll be seeing her in many mag spreads to promote the PB and it's a bit of a surprise that she has a gravure book coming out. That's because it appeared Mio had retired from doing gravure spreads as she hadn't done any of them for about ten months but doing them is one major reason she became so popular. Have a few promo pics for the PB and does she get your blood boiling or what(!), she certainly does to me....









 Pics for the book were taken in Thailand. Mio didn't do much acting up until this year but has been in three dramas plus has two films coming out next February. She's also just tried her hand for the first time doing a voice in an anime movie which is titled "Hiroaka- Heroes Rising" which is coming out on December 20th. But on December 5th the main cast had a special screening for the film at the Toyosu PIT in Tokyo, in the film she voices the character of Slice. Here's some pics from the screening and will be back with pics from it's December 20th premiere, so far no fave on this year's list has had a post after their one for the list.


















 We've hit the finale and will end off with a superb mag spread, her first gravure one since January. These feature some outtake pics from Mio's upcoming PB and positive we'll be seeing her in many more spreads, this set is from the December 13th issue of Friday as she's also their cover girl. After the pics have a new CM for the 'Monster Strike' smartphone game which features a long behind the scenes segment.














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