Mio Minato: Yet another eagerly awaited post for her!!!!

 

 Taking tomorrow off so wrote this up yesterday to give me time to work on another post for today as for now have the makings of zero of them, was I successful?(Yes!) Would highly doubt that many were waiting for another Mio post and in the past had mentioned how she was close to being the most unpopular woman here! She's no longer that low as her posts these days do draw a respectable amount of views but don't think she's ever had one in that section for most popular posts of the past month.

 It finally happened as this is Mio's sixth post for 2023 and for the first time she's qualified for the yearly faves list! It's hard to explain how much I adore Mio 😍 and in all honesty had she ten or more posts by now she would be in the running to be my #1 of the year! That won't happen but can see her finishing in the top ten, what I'm most pleased about is how her posts have been increasing every year. Six so far for 2023, she had five last and four the year prior to that and had two in 2020. It has helped that BababaBambi has grown in popularity and have had many other pics of her in group posts.

 Been wanting to do a BabababBambi group post but they haven't been doing many things together as of late besides concerts. Exactly two months ago a pair of members did graduate so there are five remaining which I think is a perfect number for a J-Pop group ala C-ute, hope no one else leaves any time soon. Have some recent group pics, they did headline a concert last night and they do put on an entertaining show but wish they could sell more singles.

 Mio's last post was a month ago for a new digital book, about ten days before that she celebrated her 26th birthday. So she's the oldest in the group but seeing how they've only been around for three years hope she can stick around to when she's thirty or so. Have a few new Mio pics from her IG page though not nearly as many as usual.

 When I first discovered Mio in 2019 she was a popular cosplayer, do miss her doing that activity but some of her magazine spreads have been in that vein. Have one brand new spread for today and what a super duper collection of pics it is. This set is from the first ever edition of Sunny Girl, she had the back cover and hope pics like these can gain her some new fans here.

 Wouldn't consider Mio to be a gravure model though she does so many mag spreads in that vein, if I did consider her to be one she just may be my third fave of all time! To date she has about five digital books and hope another one is on the horizon as all have been overly superb! Mio has one regular photobook that came out in November 2021 and that had the simple title of "Minato Minato" Have some terrific promo and outtake pics from the book here.

 Now you can see why I wish she had so many more posts, WOW!!!! The reason for the above pics, besides how fabulous they are, is because I finally obtained the DVD from the book's photo shoot. It's a 52 minute video and have some screenshots from it here that go up to the 22 minute mark. To me Mio of course looked so cold shower inducing and would have liked to seen her do a bit of cosplaying for the photobook. Mio does have a high amount of gravure spreads but only two videos from the photo shoots, her best video ever was deleted and was never reuploaded. No new BababaBambi videos as of late either so after the screenshots have their most popular video ever which is the PV for their "I Want You to Kiss Me" single that came out in March 2022 and has 1.3 million views.