06-30-2025 Ioki Mao's blog: First half of the year is ending (English Translation)

When I breathe in, I can smell the scent of summer.

It's comfortable, but also a little hot, and I'm worried about what's to come...

It's that time of the year.

And that means... our summer tour is just around the corner!

I'm feeling excited and nervous

Are you all looking forward to it too?

I wonder what kind of summer it will be this year

The music video for our new song, Same numbers, 

will be released at midnight on July 1st, so look forward to it

I'll make sure to get up today too--

Recently, I've been seeing a lot of videos 

About the good things that happened in the first half of the year, 

And it made me realize that the first half of the year is already over. 

For Mao, the first half of this year feels like the most intense one I had in my life so far. 

It went by so quickly. 

I hope the second half of the year will be calm but is still filled with rich and wonderful moments.

Let's have fun together!

And yesterday was the meet and greet.

It was the last for the 38th single, thank you for this single!

I'm looking forward to the summer tour.

I won't have a chance to talk to you around my birthday, 

so I've been celebrating my birthday with you a month in advance.

I'm so happy. I'll be 20 years old by the time we talk next time.

And as I mentioned in the talk, I've been trying out some hair accessories I bought~

But when I think about it, if I use it to tie my hair together, it doesn't look like hair accessories...lol

For now, I made it into a bracelet

It's cute like choco mint.

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Today, I want to share with you something cool that happened to me.

I was shooting outside work and had about 2 hours of free time, so I was able to visit a place nearby.

Look~

Doesn't it look familiar?

Yes, I was able to go privately to the same restaurant that I visited 

when I was featured in Tokyo Calendar

My manager, my makeup artist and I had a lovely, relaxing tea time together.

I was happy that I was able to go because I once said that I wanted to come back privately someday.

When it comes to crepes, the best ones are the simple ones...

They were really delicious.

That was my nice little story.

I'm about to turn 20 years old,

so I'm listening to a lot of songs that I want to listen to now.

Like the songs that I want to listen to while I'm still 19.

If you have any recommendations, please feel free to tell me~

This is my favorite headphones.

But I realized that headphones are not suitable for summer.

I'll write again.

It's hot these days.

I'll bear it.

I'll enjoy it.

It's summer~