Maria Makino: If your heart can take another overly broiling post....

 

 .... gulp, not sure if my heart can take it!!!! Speaking of that word once again forgot to do something.... whenever I do a post for Maria need to notify the ER room first as they see such an increase of patients with heart problems after viewing one her posts! Sigh, also forgot to warn the World's water departments as there's also a shortage of cold water after her posts... main reason for that could be me!

 Took longer than I expected but this is Maria's sixth post for 2023 and she's qualified for the yearly faves list. However at this point don't think she'll finish all that high, the list is of what a woman has done for the year and not how much I've liked them over the last 3-4 years. So while 2022 has been 'okay' there hasn't been nearly as many magazine spreads, videos or events as other years which will definitely affect her position. But will be ending off with a batch of 44 screenshots from a DVD and if I had to name my #1 video of the year that would win hands down, whewwww....

 Outside of the bottom set of pics this is not a huge post but don't like to hold on to Maria's things for too long. Being smallish may be better for everyone's hearts(!) and should I put some sort of health advisory at the top of her posts???? First off are these recent pics from her Ameba/IG page, no gravure pics as she hasn't been doing any magazine photo shoots as of late. Third pic is from a Bis photo shoot and think she has a spread in their next issue, of course she always has many Baseball pics. In the first one Maria was asked what word pops into her mind when she thinks of Nao and please don't wake me up from my fantasy.... 😍

 Even though Maria is just 22 in age she already has nine(?) regular photobooks, think the record for most by a Hello Project member is a dozen and hopefully she'll top that! "Dear Maria" is the title of her newest book that came out on June 10th and there just wasn't enough promoting for it. There has been a recent interview with the Entame Next site for the book, here's the link to it: Entame Next site

 In it's first two weeks out the photobook didn't make the best seller's chart but did in week three selling about 2,700 copies. Here's some outtake/promo pics for the book and most were in her last post but three of the pics are new for here.

 The biggest question I have is why has there been such a huge decrease in Maria magazine spreads the past year? From early 2020 to about May 2022 rarely a month went by without a magazine featuring her, the spreads of course were breathtaking and she was often the cover girl. This year she's only had three regular spreads and a few others that have featured other members of Morning Musume so what's the story?!?! 😠 Do have one new Maria spread that's from the August 1st issue of Flash but at only five pages it's way too small and it features outtake pics from the photobook.

 So let's have an encore viewing of Maria's largest spread of the year and it's also the only time she's been the cover girl which was from the February edition of Gekkan Shonen Champion.

 But will be ending on a very positive note and better call the ER in advance! The "Dear Maria" photobook had a 67 minute DVD and does she look out of this world, could be my top video of the year! Did read at a site where some person thought Maria had gained some weight but while watching this it appeared she lost weight to my eyes. This batch of 44 scorching screenshots covers the first twenty minutes which means you will see two more batches of these pics in the future and know no fan is complaining!!!! The book's photo shoot took place in Guam and my only complaint about the DVD is that the scene with Maria wearing a blue swimsuit wasn't long enough, I'm still gasping for breath! No recent videos so after the pics have a another yet different one for the event held for the photobook back in June.