The radio program "REKOMEN" announced the results of this year's "Female Idol Appearance Contest" as usual. In the past eight years, the first champion was Mayu Watanabe, who was still at AKB48 at the time, the second was Haruka Shimazaki, a member of AKB48 at the time, the third was SKE48 Matsui, and the fourth Time Mayo Watanabe won the championship again.
Then, Nogizaka 46's Mai Shiraishi won the list four times in a row since 2017. In this year's rankings, the second and third places are Shifan Kato and Kyoko Saito of Hyugasaka 46.
Mai Shiraishi was born on August 20, 1992 in Gunma Prefecture, Japan. My dream in kindergarten was to open a cake shop. In the sixth grade of elementary school, because of his interest in fashion, his dream was transformed into a designer and model.
In his freshman year, he joined the wind band because he liked music. He then moved to the softball division, where he played as a substitute in his first year and as the No. 2 player in his second year.
After graduating from Gunma Junior High School, he entered Saitama Prefectural Girls' High School for further study. Until the second year of high school, he aimed for nursery teachers and took elective courses and appraisal examinations related to higher education care.
However, in my third year of high school, I learned about music professional schools during the future discussions, and took the opportunity of experiencing teaching during the summer vacation to enter a music professional school after graduating from high school.
Her professional student days courses are singing, listening, music theory, religious music, etc. The opportunity to join Nogizaka 46 was recommended by the teacher of the junior college, and two classmates went with her to participate in the selection, and she passed the selection alone.
On August 21, 2011, Nogizaka 46 was selected and Shiraishi Mai successfully became a first-term student. On October 2, Nogisaka 46's first exclusive TV show "Where Is Nogisaka" premiered and entered the film and television circle.
On January 13, 2012, he participated in the TV series "Fraud Idol". On February 22, he participated in the debut single "Turning the Curtain" released by Nogizaka 46 and officially debuted on CD.
On May 2, the second single "Come on Shampoo!" was released in Nogizaka 46. He became a member of the UNIT song for the first time in the song "Using Chance as An Excuse". On November 8, she debuted as a model through the "Girls Award 2012 AUTUMN/WINTER".
She was then hired as an exclusive model for the popular magazine Ray, becoming the first member of Nogizaka 46 to work as an exclusive model for fashion magazines, and the first time to serve as a cover figure for Ray magazine.
On December 10, 2014, Mai Shiraishi published his first photo album " Pure Adult " , and the circulation of the first edition exceeded 100,000 copies. In September, it was rated as the first place in the top 10 of the most beautiful plastic surgery models for women by the Japanese chain of aesthetic surgery.
In July 2015, Mai Shiraishi starred in the TV series Hatsumori Bemars starring Nogizaka 46, playing Kwon Tahara Kiri, the head of the North Star Gakuen softball unit.
In 2016, Mai Shiraishi starred in the drama movie "Dark Gold Ugly Island Jun 3" starring Takayuki Yamada, playing the newcomer artist Lina Aso who chases her dreams.
In 2017, Shiraishi Mai released her second personal photo album "Passport", which sold 104,000 copies in the first week, setting a record for the highest number of solo photo albums for female artists, and then sold more than 10,000 copies for four consecutive weeks, and sold 150,000 copies in one month.
In the same year, she starred in the manga film "The Youth Diary of the Saki Knife Society" starring Nishino Nanase, playing the ace of the Razor Knife Society, Miyaji Maharu.
In 2018, Mai Shiraishi starred in the late-night drama "Maybe Ever Could Have Done the Committee", adapted from the webcomic of the same name, playing Ayako Tsuki, the only female member of the committee and good at analyzing the relationship between men and women.
In 2019, Mai Shiraishi starred in the campus comedy "Where Did My Skirt Go?" " for the first time to challenge the role of the teacher, playing the world history teacher Rimi Meng.
On January 7, 2020, Mai Shiraishi announced that he will graduate from Nogizaka 46, and the specific graduation time is to be determined.
In the same year, the cumulative sales of The Passport, the second personal photo album released by Mai Shiraishi in 2017, reached 351,000 copies, becoming the first female individual work in the "cumulative sales volume of the photo album category" and the first work in the personal photo album of female artists to exceed 350,000 copies.
Today, Mai Shiraishi is a core member of the Japanese women's group Nogizaka 46, with a good figure, big eyes and white skin, very sweet, known as "Nogisaka's face". The kimono photographs she took look dignified and elegant, and they are very stunning.
Nowadays, Mai Shiraishi is not only active in the various activities of the group, but her outstanding appearance has made her active on the major covers as a magazine model, making her the most desired female image of young women!
We also congratulate this post-92 Japanese actress for winning the title of "Most Beautiful Japanese Woman" for four consecutive years!