Mio Minato: Hopefully this is also the beginning of her triumphant return....

 

 What keeps my enthusiasm up and gets me motivated to work harder at posts is when many of them are for very long time favorites of mine which means 2025 has been a fabulous year to date! There's been so many women who have risen from their hibernations plus most of those who were busy in 2024 have continued to do so for this year. Was going to begin this post off by saying how out of all of the 'revivals' this is by far my #1 of the bunch yet isn't too well liked here. Which actually isn't true as I was looking back at Mio's posts from 2020-22 and all have well over a thousand views so the two of us do thank everyone for checking out those older posts which is common here.... sigh, wish I could say 'The two of us' with her standing by me, sigh again but multiplied by few trillion times....

 Of all of the women who have grabbed my attention when I first laid eyes on them none have ever topped Mio 😍 who I was smitten with from the first second! That was back in late 2019 but didn't do a post for her until 2020 and think it was shortly before she joined BababaBambi. So this is about the fifth anniversary of her first ever post and while 31 isn't a large amount of posts that's not too bad of a total though wish it was at least twice as many. So many times in Mio's older posts have gushed endlessly about her and in all honesty she would be my #1 woman of all time had she been busier!!!! She won't be hitting the age of 28 until June so there still is time for her to grab the number one crown and how I would love to see that happen. For it would mean she's had so many more posts and even if that never happens deep down Mio 😍 could still be my number one of all time. She is such an alluring woman and that level of hotness has been increasing with each passing year. But it's more than her looks as Mio is such an interesting woman and those are the kind I enjoy doing posts for. Besides having been in an Idol group she was a popular cosplayer, can play the guitar and bass which she did a few timers at BababaBambi concerts, has done some acting and will be in a stage play coming up in April but on the more important note no woman has had better gravure photos than Mio has had the last four years!!!!

 

 It's been close to a year since Mio's last BababaBambi activity which is when they headlined a March 14th concert at Budokan. The group's popularity had been rising rapidly since 2020 but things kind of went downhill for them after the show. At the concert three new members were introduced, two left after nine months. Then two weeks after that concert Mio announced she was going on hiatus because of some health issues and nothing was heard from her until July when she announced her graduation but least during that time a breathtaking digital book was released. What really made Mio part company with BababaBambi and her Familia agency is unknown and it may stay that way, I have a feeling she was pushed out the door by her agency and wonder why? It wasn't her age which is 27 and in June will be turning a year older, two other members are close to her in age. Plus she was a popular member and also in a way their unofficial captain so did she do something we don't know about such as dating and guess if we don't know by now we never will.

 So after March of last year Mio didn't do much of anything yet she still made the top ten on my yearly. faves list and as mentioned deep down is probably. my #1 woman of all time! In early November she did announce she had signed with a new agency yet not much was heard of her for the next few months. However February has seen Mio's return as she was at a recent event, has posted many new photos at her IG page and will be in a stage play plus did do a guest spot on a web drama. So her return is my number one bit of good news to date for the year, what would make it even better is a return to gravure modeling and even though she isn't a gravure model I would say only one woman can top her spreads since 2020!.

 Sigh once again, if I ever found a genie in a lamp think there's only one wish I would want or need, sigh again. Have about forty new pics for today plus a few older ones that had never been posted along with some encore viewings of some semi older magazine spreads. First off are these historical pics(!) which are from April 2018 and think they're the first ever of Mio modeling, back then she had resided in Fukuoka which is her hometown and didn't move to Tokyo until August 2019. Right after that is when I first noticed Mio and as they say the rest is history!

 More ancient pics which are the first three below and are also from the Spring of 2018. Down in Fukuoka Mio was a very popular cosplayer and those are the oldest pics I have found of her doing that activity, added a few others in also.

 Right at the end of December Mio finally began to maker her return and below are most of the photos she's posted to her new IG page. Even dressed in a causal way she still looks like a few trillion yen to my eyes 😍 and the bottom pics was taken two days before Christmas which was the first ever evet for her fan club where there weren't too many other females....

 On February 22nd her first ever calendar was released which covers the period from April until next March, I've always wondered how many do these sell? Below are three pics from it and did ask that question as it seems so many actresses, models and ex-Idols release calendars.

 The day after the calendar's release there was an event for it at the HMV bookstore in Shibuya, the photo shoot took place in Tokyo and don't think there's any gravure photos in it. Mio didn't say a word about BababaBambi nor much about her future but she still does look better than perfect(!) and this was the first time I've seen her at a regular event, below are plenty of superb pics from it.

 It's been exactly a year since Mio's last magazine spread and I truly hope we start seeing gravure ones for her in the future as no woman makes my blood boil hotter than her! So will have a pair of oldish spreads which could be new to many of you viewers and this first one is Mio's last to date which is from the March 11, 2024 issue of WPB. It was promoting such a stupendous digital book and after the pics have a must watch video from the photo shoot but have much more after the video.

 

 Second Mio spread is from the January 30, 2023 issue of Big Comic Sprits and it's the only time she's had a solo cover. Mio also has two gravure DVD videos which are so tremendous, think one could be on YT and is worth searching for but do so by using her Kanji name.

 Will end off with this batch of truly ultra photos of perfection, figured it had to be done after how much I gushed about Mio 😍!!!! And all of it was true and there have been a few other long time favorites of mine who have become busier after the age of 28 so I am really wishing that happens with Mio...