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Friday, June 27, 2025

Mai Shinuchi: Can you stand yet another.... 'Just because I can't get enough of her' post?!?!

 


 The post heading isn't quite accurate, the part about I can't get enough of her is certainly true yet this is her first post in exactly three months. As I briefly mention now and again there is that small yet ultra elite group of favorites who I will never get tired of and when I want to do a post for one of the seven or so nothing will stop me, especially if it's been a few months between posts. Lately Mai has been in my mind quite often but sadly there hasn't been all that many recent activities of her to post about but said to myself if I can create posts for an ex-SKE member on a bi-weekly basis then the same standard should apply to my #1 Nogi gal!!!!

 I did think coming into June that this would be a busier month than the previous two but that hasn't happened, it does discourage me to an extent but I've never been a quitter or at least when it comes to this Blog. I still peruse the weekly and monthly magazines and very few these days have any spreads featuring my favorite women, that's also been the case for recent digital books. The last year or so there's been a new wave of gravure models and Idols you see in those mags/books, a few have drawn my attention but I'm past introducing anyone younger than 25 but next month will do an intro post or two for a pair of younger Nogi gals. So while the posts keep decreasing in quantity I think the quality has been better than ever, the posts are also usually so massive. Not being able to do more posts means I have time to spend on ones such as this, bet there will be well over a hundred photos in this post and hopefully this will garner her a few new fans.



 Not sure where I would Mai on my current 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list, she was twelfth on the one done about three years ago. Since then she's moved past many and she's on the verge of cracking the top five and many years ago who would have thought that? Well, guess I would say myself is a person who knew Mai πŸ˜ could me so high on a faves list, the problem with her and my current #1 is that neither had al that many posts and figured it would stay. that way. Which is far from the case and how that's brought such a huge grin to my face! At the end of 2020 Mai just had eight solo posts but had so many hundreds of pics and news tidbits in Nogi group posts. Since then which was 54 months ago Mai has had 42 of these posts and this is her 50th solo post which is a semi-milestone. That pace is a little over nine posts a year and I can live with that, this is just her fourth for 2025 so the goal is to double that. If so Mai would be eligible for this year's Faves list, she's made the top ten the previous four years and only one other woman can boast about that!!!!



 While Mai isn't my all time number one woman in a way she just may be and why don't I give her that esteemed honor?! For at least three years have said if I could choose just woman to be with the next forty years or to be on a deserted island with Mai πŸ˜ would be my choice.! Think these days I believe in that even more, from head to toe she's such an alluring woman but what sets her apart from others here is how fun, intelligent, quick witted, etc. Mai is! Though she was popular with Nogi graduating forty months ago was a wise decision and I think her posts have become even more popular here with you viewers. Don't want to repeat myself too much so would definitely check out her older posts and they've become way too scarce these days for Nogi graduates.



 What I've also gushed about over the years is her LEGS and no woman in history may have a better set, WOWOWOWOW!!!! The last four months have been her quietest time since Mai left Nogi at the beginning of February 2022. She hosts two weekly radio shows plus an occasional TV variety program but haven't seen her attend any events, do any modeling or acting for a while and perhaps that's by choice. For today have well over a hundred pics, about twenty are new from the past month plus I bet there's 25 older ones that had never been in a post. Then have many other older ones which have been seen here before but some not too often such as a pair of mag spreads that were only posted once and that was almost a decade ago! Let's begin off with some new pics from her IG page and there aren't many as Mai mainly posts photos at her fan club page and last weekend there was an event for the members. That first pic gets a grade of an A++++ from me, the bottom two are from her January 22nd birthday when she hit the age of 33 but don't think they had been posted before.














 One radio show she's a host of is for Apple Radio and is a podcast, I did listen to a bit of two shows at the site and these are some photos that were there. I've noticed that Mai tends to wear her glasses more these days which doesn't happen often with most woman around her age. To me she looks just as fabulous wearing them 😍 and glad to see she's not vain like most others but doubt if she wears them to see me better....






 For about two years, perhaps a tad longer, Mai has been my number one Nogi member but had been in my top five since 2015. My previous #1 isn't all that far behind and the pair were such close mates while with Nogi, that mate will be celebrating her 29th birthday in three weeks and though it won't be easy to create will have one super duper post for her! Sigh, the two weren't arguing about who would have Nao in their bunk but one can dream! Two pics are from a 2019 event and unsure if more had been posted from it so will investigate that, it's a shame the camera ran out of film in the bottom photo for I was able to sneak between them....











 Mai has been a model for two sites and I've often moaned about why doesn't she do any modeling these days? She'd be a perfect model for business suits and office attire, she did model those outfits for With from 2018-20. Mai was also a model for Oggi up until April 2022, have some older pics below from 2019 and isn't she so darn close to being perfect or do we need to create a new adjective for her?! It's hard to explain why but the bottom pic has been one of my all time faves for quite a few years though you could say that about so many other hundreds of her photos....














 In posts for ex-Idols try to post older group cards for the month we're in, of course that means the batch below are for June. Usually work from newest to oldest but for today have older cards for 2015/16 and 2018, most if not all should be brand new for here. Had so few for 2017and I like the ones from 2016 where she's wearing a crown, the bottom two are terrific in their own way as it wouldn't bother me if Mai ended up being my boss.... gulp....



























 No new magazine spreads but did have such a terrific one two posts ago. It's okay there being no new ones for it means a special gift for today which are a pair of sets from almost a decade ago!!!! This first one features Mai F and I always thought she would have made for a superb captain, at the time there were three with the same name in Nogi so why didn't the trio have a spread together? Can't recall if they did but don't think so though on an older 'Nogi Bingo' show they did team up as trio for a competition and while not positive think it was for a cook off as the Team M won! This very older set is from the September 2015 issue of BLT and Mai F is doing well these days with her acting career.








 This other prehistoric mag spread is also from September 2015 and Update Girls, don't think that magazine is around these days and so many ones for Idols aren't.








 For the above two spreads Mai was 23 in age, she looked super back then but these days I don't need all five fingers in a hand to count how many women outshine Mai 😍! Will end off here with some ultra ideal pics of perfection and know many may not agree with me which seems to be common with my massive faves. After the pics is an oldie video from 2014 and the BLT magazine, they had such a terrific series back then for Nogi members which was called 'Nogi Quarterly' and the videos for all of the members that were in the group back then are worth a view.


















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