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Hajimemashite minna san....welcome to my site on my fave Japanese Pop Culture likes such as dramas, movies, magazine scans, promo events etc. Mainly concentrate on my faves...Yui Kobayashi... Miku Tanaka... Nagi Inoue....Maria Makino.... Nene Shida....if you're a fan at all of any of them then you've come to the rightplace(!) but many others are featured here besides them. Do mainly quick reviews on things I've watched, try to make the reviews brief, quick to read through with not too many spoilers, just whether they're good or bad and why I thought so plus whether you may find them enjoyable. Many, many screenshots are included from everything I've watched plus any video trailers if they're available. Hope you find something that interests you, don't hesitate to comment, arigato gozaimasu!
I was at my wits end for a while today as I thought there may not be a post so actually could have used the word Savior in the title again. Have a terrific post all set for tomorrow which will be the final one of the month, thought if all else failed may move that up a day early though that would have been a last resort. But luckily did recall I had been working on a post for Marupi a few weeks ago and she saved the day, wish she would to it more often! That's because Marupi is the kind of woman I like over most others, know I often say so and so would be in the top five on the fave's list every year with more posts which sometimes isn't true but it would be for Marupi who I adore to no end. To my surprise this is her fourth post for the year and there's a good chance she'll have another by the end of November. After eight posts in 2023 Marupi only had three the next two years so 2026 has been a slight comeback for her, she is well liked by you readers as her first thirteen posts all have over a thousand views!!!! The post title is referring to this being her sixteenth post, her first was dine in February 2023.
This is no Happy Birthday post but Marupi will be turning a year older in eight days. Could have waited until then for this post but thought it may have been wiser to wait a few more weeks as she does have her first ever fan club birthday bash on November 14th, Marupi just began that club four months ago. It'll be her 27th birthday and like a few others as Marupi doesn't look as old as she is and though the last two years had been slow for posts she was a busy gal. For Marupi has done a fair amount of acting plus is a PT reporter/host for a Basketball web show, she is a huge fan of the sport. What Marupi has slowed way down on is her gravure modeling, if she didn't she had the chance to become one of my all time models which could still happen. Last month I got her new digital book and that will end off the post. It's not a gravure book but Marupi looks so stupendous in it, was biding my time until posting it and as mentioned had forgotten I had it until today.
Didn't realize until today that I never had Marupi listed under the Labels section, will fix that after this post. Of course I often recommend checking out someone's older posts but in Marupi's case that's an extremely high recommendation as there's so many sweltering photos plus a most of her bio info. In the Spring of 2022 Marupi graduated from college and did work in an office for most of 2022, while doing so she ended up signing with the Familia agency and as they say the rest was history! For she soon quit her job to become an actress and gravure model, I post about many women who are also with that agency.
First up are these recent photos from Marupi's IG page, the first four are for her first ever fan club event for her birthday and haven't clubs become so popular over the last few years? There's no gravure pictures as she hasn't done any of those photo shoots for a while but to me Marupi is one of those females who doesn't have to dress skimpy to get my attention.
Eight days ago it was announced that on November 28th Marupi will be releasing a fashion photobook, those are often superb but aren't as popular due to the lack of gravure photos. "Secret" is the title of the book and there be an event for it the day of it's released, below are four promo pics for it.
A favorite part of mine doing these kinds of posts have been adding in pictures from older photo shoots and most of them are new for here. Been having these kinds of pics since June and had said to myself at the time that it was a crime to not have such sizzling photos seen and to me many are much better than a book or magazine spread. Marupi has quite a few from late 2022 when she did her first ever gravure photo shoot up until 2024 that had never been posted, these are some of them and hope she has many more posts in the future so we can have them all!
No new magazine spreads so will go back in time for this historical one as it was the first time Marupi was a cover girl and it's from the April 25, 2023 issue of Young Magazine. Marupi has appeared in that magazine more than any other one and has been their cover girl four other times. As mentioned a few times Marupi has slowed way down with her gravure modeling, it could be because she's getting up there in age but perhaps she also just wanted a break from that kind of work which I've seen happen many times with some of my favorite models.
Will end off with Marupi's latest digital book "On/Off" which was released in September 10th. This is not a gravure book though to me the pictures get a grade of an A++, think that "Secret" book coming out in a month will be similar to this one. Which has 59 pictures and after them is a video from the photo shoot which Marupi uploaded to her YT channel.
