Maria Makino: Can you think of anyone more deserving of a post?!?!

 

 Maria 😍 was the first woman I ever gave a rating of a 10/10 to(!) but upon further reflection isn't that grade a bit too low, WOWOWOW!!!! Have a couple of minor goals I'm working on and things such as those make me knuckle down a bit harder when working on posts. One was to have a post each day for February and that streak is still alive! This makes it 26 consecutive days(and 32 posts!) and seeing as how I take the final day of a month off just need to have one for tomorrow. As of now have zero to post about but if there is nothing else can whip up one for that 'My Current Watches' series which has proven to be much more popular than imagined. One minor problem could be that this and yesterday's post were planned for March but moved them up early to keep that streak going so hope that doesn't mean I'll be struggling next month for posts....

 One other goal was to increase the posts for Maria 😍 and this month marks the fourth anniversary of her first post. In the beginning it wasn't too difficult doing posts for her but the last two years that's sadly been the case. However this makes it three posts in nine weeks for Maria, doubt if I can do one a month but there's no reason for going four or more months without any posts. Well, there is if someone has so few activities to post about but in the past have been able to overcome that on occasion. By that I mean even though it's not easy over the last 3-4 years have come close to doing a monthly post for Akari and Yui, before that Risa and though not easy to create how I love working hard on their posts! Maria isn't quite at their level as far as being a massive fave goes but isn't too far away and the best way to close that gap is with many more posts! So if I can do another four or more by the end of this July that mini goal of mine will be another successful one and picked July for a reason.

 In August will begin the countdown on my third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list, do one every four years as a lot can happen in that period of time. I was just thinking about the twenty and how many are automatics at this point? Would say sixteen and that does include Maria, she'll be one of the more difficult to figure out what position she'll end up at. Have four more slots to decide on and there could be ten women in the battle for them so what happens over the next five months could be key, not just for making the list but also their positions. I adore Maria 😍 immensely and would say she's the second most likable woman I post about after an ex-Keya member. No J-Pop Idol has had better photobooks or mag spreads than her though those magazine appearances have really slowed down. Plus I love the fact Maria is always so cheerful and really does enjoy being an Idol and she's such a massive Baseball fan which I also am. A lot of Idols have gotten married to pro players so wonder if that's in the cards for Maria, if not hope she's reading this post and takes pride in being my first ever 10/10 woman 😍.... still think that first ten needs a few more zeros!

 Those two above pics are from Maria's latest photobook "Blooming" which came out on February 2nd, that's when she celebrated her 25th birthday. That makes it a dozen books for her and wonder the record is for a Hello Project member? Would think it'd be right around a dozen so if she remains with Morning Musume another 2-3 years she just may set a few record and so glad Hello Project got rid of that loose rule of graduating when 25 in age. Maria's last post was for that birthday and was done only nineteen days ago so of course there aren't a lot of recent things. But have collected almost fifty photos never seen here before plus some terrific oldies so once again Maria will have such a super duper post, she doesn't have nearly as many as other women here but her posts are close to being the best! First off are these missed H!P cards from 2025, these days there aren't nearly as many Idol cards as there were a decade ago. The top two are new for birthday #25, the bottom two are for her eleventh photobook.

 One thing Maria doesn't do enough is post solo photos of herself at her IG page. Just a handful from the past six weeks so also included many pics she had of Morning Musume and would love to start doing some group posts for them but I either keep forgetting about it or there aren't many things to post about.

 Because there weren't many solo pics above let's go back to the first half of 2023 for these scorching Maria pictures. Some have been posted before, some haven't been and all were from photo shoots for the first few months of 2023.... hard to pick out the most sizzling pic but the bottom one is hard to top.... can say that about the first photo also, whewwwwwww!!!!

Did say Maria is such a huge Baseball fan and she's been a co-host/reporter for a few shows about the sport. On March 5th the WBC aka World Baseball Classic tournament will begin, it's held every three years and Japan won the last won in 2023 and is currently ranked #1 in the world. Baseball is even more popular in Japan than here in America and on February 20th she was in the Miyashita section of Tokyo for the grand opening of the WBC Official Store. I can recall two videos of Maria from four years ago of her being taught how to be a better pitcher plus has thrown out the first pitch at a few games but wish we saw more of her taking different stabs at the game such as in the batting cage or fielding.

 Maria's eleventh photobook "Maria 24Tuoi" came out on February 2, 2025 which was the date of her 24th birthday and seven of Maria's books have come out on her birthday. The location of the photo shoot was Vietnam and what Hello Project does better than any other Idol management group is to release DVD's of the photo shoots. They're usually a little over an hour long and this makes it four consecutive posts where I'm featuring twenty ultra alluring screenshots from the DVD! This brings us up to the 41 minute mark so can have two more of these sets, no gravure model or J-Pop Idol has better videos or DVD's than Maria has had the last four years.... once again she has left me speechless in trying to find perfect adjectives for her and perhaps there aren't any....

 Will end off with this batch of 28 photos which had been posted once before but it was back in the Spring of 2023 so sure most have forgotten these pics or had never seen them. Good timing for this mini digital book as it came out on March 1, 2023 at the Young Magazine site, they used to have a series called 'Yanmaga Web' for Idols but not sure if it's still going on. Maria may have many more steamier photos such as the bottom ones but the way she's dressed in blue for the first six may be the favorite Maria 😍 pics, hard to explain why to me she looks so magnificent! What may be even better than the pictures is the video for the photo shoot which is after this batch, the video has been posted before but I can never get tired of viewing it....