Marie Iitoyo: Though there's been a few challengers, she's still....

 

 .... on track to become the first repeat champion of the yearly faves list! Then again this is the first year I've made past number ones eligible but none of the other champs would have repeated though the last three #1's will be in this year's top twenty. For five months no fave was within a country mile of overtaking Marie for this year's top spot but a pair have inched a bit closer. Would like to see a battle for #1 as there wasn't one last year but it'll be difficult for those other two to maintain their pace for having posts. 

 Marie did have a very slow stretch with only one post from May 13th until the end of June. But this is now her second one in ten days and have often said just because we don't hear from someone doesn't mean they're not busy. For instance she probably did the terrific spread that ends this post plus may have been doing some filming for her upcoming Asadora drama though that won't begin for months. This is Marie's 17th post of the year, even if she had ZERO the rest of the way no other fave would top that figure so for the third year in a row she'll have the most posts. But will a new record for posts be set in 2021? Not counting drama recaps Marie had 26 of these posts last year which was a record so she needs ten by November 30th to top that, would like to see her do it but it's not going to be easy.

 My 'cloning project' has been a bit successful so perhaps that mark of ten more posts this year is possible! Not a huge amount of new pics as her last post was just done ten days ago but when you include 29 screenshots there are 55 new pics plus a batch of oldies. Let's get right to them and this first set is from the Yakuzemi+ site which is an online magazine, short article on her current drama.

 Marie's current drama is "Hinekure Onna no Bocchimeshi" but actually it's being rerun. The series aired on the Paravi cable channel from April 29th until May 29th for a total of ten episodes. But now it's being shown again on TV-Tokyo and it began on that station July 2nd. Been praying that this show would be subbed as I viewed most of it without them but it appears it may not happen but quite often quirky shows like this one get done months after it ends. Have given brief recaps of the first three episodes, short one for the fourth show and may stop them here.

 Tsugumi is the name of her character who is in 95% of the scenes. She works a dead end job at a convenience store and Tsugumi is such an introverted young woman who has no friends and rarely goes out. That was until she discovered this blog/Twitter page by a man going by the name of White Horse. He's a salaryman about a decade older and he visits obscure restaurants and gives them reviews. Tsugumi is his only follower and has been going to those eateries White Horse visits, in this show it was an Italian pizza shop though it serveed much more than that. Though Tsugumi is so uncomfortable around people she will eat in those restaurants but for the first time she was able to get a take out meal and gobbled the whole thing down! You can see her meal below and those pics that looked like meatballs were a strange dish, need subs to know what they are. And doesn't Marie look perfect(!), she looks better in a blue sweater than an Idol without one on.... well....

 Only a few new Marie pics at the Oggi site so skipped them but do have some superb modeling ones from More, those first two pics are.... gulp.....

 It's nice to have an encore viewing of some fabulous mag spreads or event pics as I often forget about them. Bet a lot of you viewers do too and sure most have never seen this batch which I completely forgot about. Marie simply sparkled at this June 24, 2019 event for Clean Breath to promote a new product they had at the time called 'Lemon Mint', here's a link to a video of the event:

 Clear Breath video

 Even though Marie had sixteen posts coming into today one thing lacking in them were new mag spreads. But have a huge one today which is her best spread since last December, hope there's more on the horizon and she's the cover girl for the July 26th issue of Big Comic Spirits. Often a video from the photo shoot comes out later and hope that's the case as Marie has zero of those kinds of videos and it's a shame there was no DVD for her photobook. No new CM's and such so after the pics have an entertaining ABC Mart CM from three years ago.