Mai Shinuchi: Just because ( 𝒐𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒂𝒈𝒂𝒊𝒏 ) who else deserves a post more than her(?), volume #umpteen....

 

 Have done at least five posts for her with a similar title, a few other faves have also had posts with that title but think she does lead the pack! Know this won't be a popular post with you viewers as so few of these are but think she does have a dedicated fan base here plus I can only think of 2-3 women who I enjoy doing posts for more than her, perhaps not even that many! But after four consecutive years making the faves list Mai did drop out this year but at least qualified as she did have seven posts. But five were done before July and while she was busy they're not the kinds of activities you can do posts for such as hosting a radio show and she has two of them. But this was a case of when I woke up today she was on my mind 😍 which has become so much more frequent and I really wanted to do a post for her so badly. not many current new pics but that's okay as this should turn out to be one super duper post!!!!

 Have always said or least so for the past five years that no woman in history has better legs than Mai and aren't the above two solid evidence of that?! Plus that second pic has much more than legs(whew!) as that photo should be in the Hall of Fame, it appears her height would be be 170+ cm but it's only 165 cm or just shy of 65 inches. This was the first year no current or ex-Nogi member made the faves list, six posts are needed to qualify and Mai was the only one to accomplish that. So it did feel odd not having a list post for any old members and while I know most are still semi-busy there really hasn't been too many things over the last two years to post about my favorite members besides her.

 There have been some older classic rock songs about Legs, why haven't there been any new ones about those above.... WOWOWOW 😍 !!!! One other huge compliment is that for so long have said if I could choose just one woman here to be my girlfriend or even wife it would be Mai, have been wrong about some females before but don't think her. With each passing day I think even more highly of her and our ages aren't so far apart so why couldn't I have also been born in Saitama than in the NE of the USA? Hmmmm, actually bringing up Saitama got me thinking as it seems so many of my huge faves have come from there such as her and my all time #1 woman along with four members of C-ute and many others so could a list of my fave women from there be in the works?

 So it is kind of odd how though Mai isn't my #1 woman of all time I would pick her over anyone else. Sometimes being #1 means you've had more posts, photobooks, modeling pics, been at events, etc. than most others which is why she will never top almost any list. But Mai does top the list for being my number one Nogi member and not far behind was another 2G member who has semi-disappeared. So while Mai may never top a regular list she's had quite a few accolades the past five years besides topping the list for being my fave Nogi gal. She had made the fave's list four years in a row and was 12th on the all time list done 2 1/2 years ago plus had my fourth favorite photobook for 2022, that may not appear to be a high position but that was the second best year for books. Hopefully posts such as these can garner more fans here for Mai though it hasn't worked to date and I don't really care about how popular a post is for someone I like immensely and not many if any can top Mai 😍 in my eyes!

 So did say that Mai hasn't been all that busy the second half of the year and that's been the case for so many others too. I don't think think about Why? too often though do have to wonder why have so many of my bigger faves gone so silent at about the same time, really can't think of any reasons for that or any kind of connections between the women. Did do a post for Mai about three weeks ago which had been her first in a while, did say I would attempt doing this post but didn't think it would be possible but as you can see was successful. Her next post should be in about four weeks or just after January 22nd, that's the date of her 33rd birthday and least to me doesn't she look better than ever! As many Nogi fans know that's also the date of another gal from the group though five years younger....

 These days Mai rarely posts photos at her IG page and instead just has them at her fan club site. So have zero of them for today so why not a brief trip down memory lane with these semi-older ones from the past two years, no reason why I chose these as all the others are also terrific. It is good to have older pics in posts as why should some superb ones from years ago be forgotten about plus I bet many here have never seen this batch before.

 Speaking of older pics which have never been seen before that should be the case for the ones below. As a matter of fact I think just about all of the ones below have never been in a previous posts, they're Nogi cards for Christmas and December from 2013-15. Usually when I post older cards for Mai and other ex-Idols start from the newest and work backwards but most of the newer ones have been seen so now need to reverse the order of them.

 An old pictorial series that the Natalie site had in late 2013 until the Spring of 2014 was titled 'Power Push' and to me that was the best photo series for the group and wish it went longer. It didn't feature the 'stars' back then but the lesser known members plus the gals from 2G as they hadn't been with Nogi all that long and besides the terrific photos were mini interviews to introduce them to the fans. Some members had a pair of pictorials and Mai was one of them, this set came out in 2014 just before her January birthday so she would have been just shy of 22 in age. This was the first time I really had noticed her and my heart has been beating out of control since!

 That was just half of one set, have had all of the photos in much older posts but will have an encore of all of them coming up. Do have one smallish set of brand new pics as on December 2nd Mai held an event for her 2025 calendar which is her third solo one, the photo shoots took place in Tokyo and I would love to see have another digital book. Mai did have a mini one in June 2022 which was four months after her graduation from Nogi. The book was tremendous even though it had no gravure pics, how I would love to see some new ones from her in that vein but am not holding my breath....

 The last two pics above are from the calendar. What was different for this year's is that Mai wasn't the cover girl for an issue of Big Comic Spirits to promote it. That is such a shame as those other two spreads are among Mai's best ever, actually both spreads were in my top ten for the last two years. Have an encore viewing of one of those and it's now exactly a year old as this truly sizzling set is from the December 18, 2023 issue of BCS.

 We've hit the end and while not enough new pics that's all right by me as this post did have some overly stupendous photos and that's easy to do when they're of Mai 😍 !!!! So for the finale will have some dazzling(to me) photos that many of you have seen but I will never get tired of them. As a bonus after the pics is a video of the above event, it's been so rare seeing these kinds of videos over the years from Mai and most other Nogi (ex)members.