Maria Makino: Just because who is more deserving of a post?!?!?!?!

 

 How can you top that first photo which is one of my all time favorites(!?) but you could say that for a few hundred of her other pics! An 'All Time Favorite' is what Maria 😍 is to me yet sadly she won't appear on too many of my lists as the posts for her have been far and few between the past seventeen months, only three for 2024 and this is just her second for this year. When I first began posting about Maria back in February 2022 shortly after her 21st birthday the posts were steady until the second half of 2023 then they tapered off so suddenly and I have no reasons for why that happened for she could be Morning Musume's most popular member or at least the one who gravure fans enjoy the most.

 The lack of posts for her has honestly bummed me out and have often talked about some sort of faves list for those who are lacking for posts. Maria now has almost thirty posts which is a decent number for 3 1/2 years but there's been only five in the past seventeen months. So if I do ever think of someway to do a list for those who don't get enough posts she just may be #1 on the list and would say she's my second current favorite J-Pop Idol, also my second all time fave Morning Musume member. Hmmmm, but instead of her appearing on that other list my goal from here on out is to have many more posts for Maria and that way perhaps she could start appearing on my regular lists, if I can do so many posts for an ex-SKE gal why can't I do more for her? So more posts for her is now my number one goal and there is one category where she does top a list of mine. Which is of having the best figure of any women I post about, sure many are shaking their heads at that but to me Maria has the hottest body of anyone here and that's something I've thought for a while but never admitted that to now.... perhaps after you view today's photos you may be in agreement(!) and highly recommend checking out her older posts.

 Gulp, is it any wonder why I want need to do more posts for her, gulp again! This will be a large post and even though it's been a slowish period for her and the group while I was creating this post decided to hold a few things back and wonder if I could do a post a month for the rest of the year? Think I can do that and perhaps to celebrate will have two of them for June which should please her many fans here! For 2022 and most of 2023 Maria's posts were very popular but once they slowed way down the views for the new posts decreased and that's happened often for others too. Maria is now 24 in age and at one time there used to be an unwritten rule that Hello Project members had to graduate when they were 25, that's one reason why C-ute may have disbanded and also why there's no original members left from Juice=Juice. But when the virus came upon us five years ago that rule was no longer in effect and you do see many H!P gals stay past the age of 25, Morning Musume has three that age or older but one is leaving next month. I'd love to do more group posts but it's so difficult these days so may include some group news in her posts.

 Of course that's MM above but the pic is a few months old. What's baffled me more than anything else is why there was such a drop off in Maria's magazine spreads? From 2019 to mid 2023 rarely did a month go by without a spread but to date there's only been one mini one for this year. But even so bet there's at least sixty new pics for this post along with an older spread so all in all eighty ultra terrific pics for all to enjoy.  First off are these photos from Morning Musume's Ameba blog though not as many as usual.... er, then again there was but am holding some back! That bottom photo is so sweltering and a few above that are with a pair of graduated members who were both immensely popular. As many fans know Maria is such a massive Baseball fan so wish I had been a better player(!), some pics are from the "Love It" variety show and she has a weekly segment on Mondays.

 Think it was about five years ago when Hello Project switched companies that released their cards. They still look fabulous but unfortunately the amount of them has really decreased plus the cards themselves are smaller, think of a Baseball card. Do have some hew ones here for 2025 with a pair being for Maria's 24th birthday.

 Though this has been a very slow year to date for magazine spreads and modeling pics do have three videos from 2025 that are all over an hour in length. One was to celebrate Maria's 24th birthday that took place in February, will have screenshots in her next post. Will end the post off with more screenshots which are for her 11th photobook but first have a few here for volume 27 of 'Best Shot', each edition features a different Hello Project group. Morning Musume was the group for this latest volume and have some screenshots which are appetizers from the video in which most members had a segment but you know who had a trio of them!

 There was also a mini Best Shot photobook that came out in December but don't have the whole book yet but will soon and aren't these pics from it simply unbeatable! Of course they are and you can say that about most of Maria's photos!

 Here's an interview for Maria's tenth photobook that came out in February and she's on pace to set a record for most books from any H!P member. The interview came out after her last post and was with the Town Work web magazine and have the link to it, to me these pics are so superb and the interview is worth reading as I had forgotten she had failed her first MM audition: Town Work site

 Grrrr(!), why aren't there any new Maria mag spreads and more importantly why has there only been one the past seven months???? Let's go back to August of last year which was ten months ago for this set from Bessatsu Young Champion, Maria has probably graced the cover of 25 magazines but this is her last cover to date.

 Let's end off here and will say that even though the posts for her have slowed down I can only think of one other massive fave whose posts are consistently better. Did vow in the beginning to have a post per month and will keep my promise, hope to even have two of these for June! Besides having such an unbeatable figure one other thing no one tops Maria in are the DVD's for photobooks, I have watched her last five too many times to count! All are around 65 minutes in length and of course she's hotter than the Sun but the videos are also quite fun as she is witty with such a sense of humor. Book number ten has the title of "Maria 24 tuoi" and the photo shoot took place in Vietnam. These screenshots are from the first ten minutes so that means you'll be seeing plenty more in the future and will confess that once again Maria has left me speechless!!!! Actually Maria does have a current mag spread for UTB but don't have that yet though hope to for her next post, the video for it is after the pics and it's a MUST WATCH! Maria is also a huge Baseball fan and did throw out the first pitch at a recent game so many photos of that will be in her next post so that promises to be another terrific one for her....