Maria Makino: Another.... 𝒋𝒖𝒔𝒕 𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒘𝒉𝒐 𝒊𝒔 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒅𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒓𝒗𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒇 𝒂 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕(post)?!?!?!?!

 

 Every picture of Maria's 😍 is close to or over a rating of a 10/10 but how about that second pic above?! It's an outtake from her most recent photobook and if I stare at that much longer this post may never get done! Was going to take today off, it's been a slightly slower stretch recently for some of my bigger favorites and the weather is finally somewhat decent. But when I want to work on a post for someone nothing will stop me! Especially when that post could be for Maria 😍 and for so long it was so difficult to do posts for her, if she could somehow have almost as many posts as some of my other favorites she'd always be in the running to be my #1 Queen on just about every list. This makes it four posts in three months for Maria so she'll easily qualify for this year's faves list and if the Gods are smiling down on me her next post will be shortly after April 1st.

 You readers and myself don't often agree on who our massive favorites are but one woman we're both in agreement with is Maria. She's been one of the most popular J-Pop Idols I've posted about over the last few years though do wish she could garner a few new fans. Lack of posts may have hurt her recruiting effort a bit but things have really been looking much rosier for Maria lately, doubt if it could happen but would love to see her battle it out for the top spot on this year's faves list. There is one honor she has which can never be taken away and that's of me saying Maria 😍 is the first woman here to get a rating of a perfect 10/10 from me and actually many zeroes need to added in to the first ten!!!! I can't think of any more superlatives that haven't been used to describe Maria and won't go on with this thought but she's been with Morning Musume for over eleven years so how much longer will she remain with the group?

 This has been a perfect time for Maria to make a comeback here for the countdown for the third 'Top Twenty Faves of All Time' list will begin in August. A few months back did say how Maria was on the bubble as far as making the list goes but in all honesty she was assured a spot though not extremely high. But that's changed with these recent posts and I've also been trying to add in older pics in these posts as she's 25 in age so can go back five years for missed things. If I can do another four or so posts by August Maria should crack the top ten but doubt if she could make it to the top five and for the most part think that's all set though positions four and five could flip flop a few times.

 Those above two pics are also from Maria's latest photobook, will discuss it a bit more further on down. This may seem like it's a medium sized post but have sixty new pics and will add in an older mag spread to bump up the total amount of photos, no need to tell you all have a rating of a 10(000)/10!!!! Every year Hello Project releases a huge special magazine titled Best Shot, it's now up to volume 26. Maria has been the cover girl for this special edition the past three years which features many other members from H!P groups, here's some terrific promo pics for the newest magazine which could be considered a mini photobook.

 Speaking of the Best Shot series here's some pics from volume 25 and the issues come out in the Spring. Last year's book featured some of Maria's best ever photos but then again she must have a few thousand which could be considered her best....

 Maria is the cover girl for the newest issue of Young Magazine, it's her 20th time with that honor and it may be a record for the magazine. But let me hold on to that for her next post for if I can hold back a few things here and there it may mean we can have an extra post or two for Maria. However do have another new mag spread that's from the February 25th issue of Weekly Shonen, Maria is the cover girl and though I'm not positive bet no other Hello Project member has graced as many covers as she has and that's going all the way back to 1997. The spread has the title of 'Girlfriend', for so long an ex-Nogi member has been the #1 gal here who I've wanted as a girlfriend but Maria 😍 is breathing down her neck.... can't go wrong with either of them!

 That above is one terrific spread though was a bit too small. So let's have an encore viewing of this even better magazine spread that's from the December 2023 edition of UTB, every Maria mag spread is beyond perfect but this one here just may be her top one to date..... it'd be impossible but quite a fun project which would be to rank her magazine spreads and there has to be hundreds of them....

 As I've often said a super duper feature of H!P photobooks is that most come with a DVD of the photo shoots and because of that their books rank higher than the ones from the '46' or '48' groups. I have the DVD for Maria's latest book "Blooming" which was released on February 2nd and that was her 25th birthday. The location of the book was Australia and the DVD is her longest one at 76 minutes. Here's a small batch of screenshots from it, I love taking screenshots of Maria so expect 25-30 of them in her next five or so posts.... whew, that bottom screenshot deserves to be in a Hall of Fame!

 The photobook that came out on Maria's 24th birthday was titled "Maria 24 tuoi" and the photo shoot took place in Vietnam. Have the link to an interview she did at the time with the Model Press site and hadn't posted that before, the interview photos are so terrific had to have them! Those are the pics below and it is a decent interview where she talked quite a bit about who her #1 member is(was).... 

Model Press interview

 Will end off with this set of screenshots which will be the final batch I'll be having from the DVD for Maria's tenth photobook "Maria 24 tuoi" and I can't believe how many times I viewed it!!!! There's no gravure video after the pics but a different one which I found enjoyable. Besides Baseball Maria also loves Mangas and on March 10th appeared in the variety show "Arinoya Shoten" to talk about her passion. The show was over 23 minutes and Maria was the only guest, having different things such as appearing on a show such as this does help women out when it comes to my fave's lists. There's no subs for the video but it's easy enough to follow plus Maria has such a pleasant voice.