'Top Twenty Faves' countdown for 2021: Position #1, the unequaled Marie Iitoyo!!!!

 

 Previous positions:

#16, Yuki Yoda .... #15, Mio Imada .... #14, Miru Shiroma .... #13, Nene Shida

#12, Minami Hamabe .... #11, Yui Kobayashi .... #10, Miona Hori .... #9, Minami Umezawa

#8, Haruka Fukuhara .... #7, Nanase Nishino .... #6, Kyoko Saito .... #5, Minami Tanaka

#4, Risa Watanabe .... #3, Nashiko Momotsuki .... #2, Rika Izumi

  Once again there was no mystery on who #1 was gong to be once again but this was the first year that previous winners were eligible. Positions seven and five also were my number ones for a year and seven of the top ten were also in 2020's top ten. It'd be nice to have a few new faves but to me I think it's better that they don't change all that much. So Marie is the first ever repeat champion and she came so close to making it three years in a row! Back in 2019 she finished fourth on the faves list but as of August that year she was in the top spot. Bit of a slow stretch then for the next few months and she was passed by a trio but still fourth is an impressive position. Tomorrow will have a brief recap post for the list and then won't talk about it or next year's for a while. But the question is can Marie make it three years in a row being #1 in 2022? There's no clear cut favorite going in and wouldn't mind seeing someone else be number one, say #4(!), but wouldn't count her out!

 Will try to make this a smaller post than the others and the last month hasn't been as busy for her as this is her first post in five weeks. The main reason for that is because of all the dramas Marie will be appearing in and she's been doing a lot of filming. Right after Christmas the second special drama "Thus Spoke Rohan" will be airing, it'll be three episodes. It was a special series last year too and was pleasantly surprised that it was subbed, had it been eight or more episodes then it may have been my number one drama for 2020. In February the third season of 'Kimi to Seaki' will be airing, viewed and recapped the first two seasons which totaled sixteen episodes. It's been a decent series but seems it could be so much better yet it ended on a strong note and am very curious to see what takes place next. "Chimudondon" is an asadora she'll also be in but no start date for that drama yet. And the fourth(!) upcoming show will be "Hiru" which looks to be the best of the quartet and will begin in March, more info on all of those shows will be in future posts.

 And I'm sure those next posts won't be too far into the future. Marie had 25 regular posts this year and just missed by one of tying the all time record which she set in 2020. So she's averaged a post every other week for two years now and will admit I work harder to have posts for her than anyone else. So why I said this would be a small post there are 46 new pics plus will have some oldies. On December 3rd she attended a press conference for the 'SOS47' campaign which is to alert people about family frauds, second year in a row she's been an ambassador for this police campaign.

 My top Marie event pics of the year were from November 9th and the opening day of the 'Netflix Festival Japan 2021' which featured many anime and superhero films. Whew, did she look so terrific and it cemented her claim to be #1 for the second year in a row.

 Not as many dramas this year but Marie did much more modeling work than she's ever done. These are from a few months back for the Uniqlo Autumn collection.

 New modeling pics from the Spur site but only four for now, hopefully more in the future.

 Just one new mag spread and that's been the only disappointment for the year which is how few she's appeared in. Least Marie was the cover girl for the January issue of More.

 Plus a few newish pics from the More site but some were in the above spread.

 Marie will be turning 24 in about two weeks so that's when her next post should be. She's been an exclusive model for the Oggi magazine since August 2018 but doesn't appear in all of their mags. However there's always a slew of stupendous new pics at their site, this huge batch are from November and will have the December pics in her next post.

 We've hit the end and did want to make this a simple and smallish post but it actually wasn't all that small. In August and September 2018 had my first 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list, will have the second one beginning next June as four years should be a long enough period. So after finishing sixth, fourth, first and first again on the yearly faves list since 2018 you'd have to say Marie is the front runner for being my #1 of all time on that next list. Haven't given it too much thought but kind of have an inkling on who the top eight would be but not their exact positions. Marie's first and only photobook "NO GAZPACHO" was released on her 20th birthday back on January 5, 2018 and how I dream of her having a second book!!!! It's been her most popular post ever with over 2,600 views but most books that are this terrific have twice as many views, she's never been overly popular here. So have the link here to the photobook if you want to view it. After the pics is a newish video for VT Cosmetics that came out last month which is a short behind the scenes segment for her recent CM for them.

"NO GAZPACHO" photobook