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Wednesday, August 24, 2022

Nao's 'Top Twenty of All Time Faves' list #2.... Position #12, the exquisite Mai Shinuchi!

 



Previous positions



 Was going to publish this tomorrow but said to myself why wait? It's all done so why have it sit for twelve hours, this puts me a day ahead of the scheduled pace but would rather have that than be a day behind. Am in the middle of a couple of mini streaks, one is that of the last five posts three have been for Nogi graduates. Plus another ex-member will be in the top five, no current Nogi gals made it so you know where my loyalty lies! Also the ages of the faves will be getting older starting with this post. Of the top twelve faves six will be thirty or older in age, one woman will be 28 and another 29. That does make sense as it's an all time list so if I've been following you for a while you're probably getting up there in age.



 That first list done four years ago was a very good one but to me this turned out to be so much better. The competition is brutal as I had wanted Mai to be in the tenth position but upon further reflection decided the two above her could be more deserving, they're both real long time mega faves. As a matter of fact the closest two in ages are between this and the next spot, Mai is exactly seventeen days older as both were born in 1992. So hope this doesn't wreck Mai's chances of setting a record. She's had a post for twelve consecutive months and the record is sixteen so that's one minor reason I had wanted her to be tenth for that post would have been done in September, she also has an excellent chance of being #1 on this year's faves list.



 This should be a good sized post and all have been up until now. But will try to hold back a few things so there can be a post next month to keep that streak alive. Have a little bit of many things, some new pics, some older ones that had never been posted and a few encores. First off are some recent IG pics, Mai may not have a huge amount of them but to me they're the second best of anyone I post about. Bottom four are from her last stage play "On Air: This Sound For You" which ended two weeks ago, her castmate is one cutie and I need to see if a post or two can't be done for her.
















 As is my norm lately have bene having older Nogi cards in these posts, there's no way I'll ever get to all of them! These ae some real oldies from Valentine's 2015/16/17, bottom four I think are too and what makes them special is they're Mai's final Nogi cards that came out in February. They're part of the 'Nogi Fes' series and they look like Valentine's pics to me.















 Mai does a little bit of so much and she's become the busiest of all ex-Nogi members. In April she became the co-host of the variety show 'Bakumon x Hakuson'. For the first time did watch an episode which are 23 minutes in length, these variety shows are a mixed bag and would help if they were subbed, another problem is that they're dime a dozen.... least she looked terrific.....















 That above show aired on August 16th and actually was passable. Of course many remember that Mai was the host of the 'All Night Nippon; radio show for six years, she had to leave it when she graduated and she really made that show immensely popular. She has a new radio gig with the SDGs Magazine which also airs on Nippon Broadcasting, she began that in April. Here's the link to the show's site which has other photos and transcripts of the shows: SDGs site









 One new spread from the August 5th TV Life, at two pages why'd they bother!!!!



 For these position posts it is important to have older things so you can see why someone has been such a huge fave of mine for many years. To make up for that way too tiny above spread have this super duper set from the October 2017 issue of UTB.








 Mai was an Oggi model for three years but left them in April. That was two months after her Nogi graduation and wonder if that's why she left? That's a shame as her pics for them were fabulous and as the years went on the amount of them increased, here's some pics from their site and they still have all her photos there. She's been a model for two other sites and I'm really hoping she gets back into modeling though she is busy enough these days.


















 We've hit the end and hopefully this post won't wreck that streak of consecutive months with a post. In those twelve months there's been seventeen posts or one every three weeks which is just so impressive. Will end off with some unbeatable pics from over the years and as I've said often Mai has the top legs of any woman I post about. So difficult to find decent videos of her on YT, think she needs her own channel. After the pics have a real oldie Mai video from 2015 when Nogi used to make some appearances on the 'AKB Show', she's with a mate who we've all missed so much....














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