Race Queen Marie Fujii’s 2024 Journey

She has been gracing the circuit in tight costumes for the past six years.
Marie Fujii, who won the “Race Queen of the Year 22-23” award, regrettably retired as a race queen in the 2011 season.

With her sharply angled, glistening neckline and overwhelming style, the 29-year-old attracts fans with her long-awaited first appearance in FRIDAY’s photogravure section.

She says, “I often buy and check out FRIDAY’s gravures because some of my friends have appeared in them! 　Hitomi Wada, for example. Hitomi Wada, for example, is such a good friend that we go to sports games together. Also, Nanako Aizawa, a fellow race queen, was in the magazine.

This was her first gravure shoot since graduating from the race queen program.

I didn’t expect to be allowed to wear so many beautiful outfits, and I was surprised. I think I was able to show a side of myself that I have never seen before, and I think it was a fresh gravure not only for myself but also for FRIDAY magazine. I am very proud of it !

I was at the track for six years as a race queen, so I didn’t want the customers to get bored every time they came to see me! 　I didn’t want the customers to get bored every time they came to the race. That is why I was more particular about my posing than anyone else. That experience may have come in handy in today’s photogravure shoot.

She looks back on the six years she spent as a race queen.

Looking back, there were no hardships at all. If I had to mention one thing, it would be when I announced my graduation as a race queen. I had a hard time holding back my tears during my last race. I couldn’t sing at all because I couldn’t stop crying (laughs). As far as the eye could see, there were so many people there, people who had supported us for the past six years.

Before joining the entertainment industry, she had worked in the business world.

I worked in a store as a beauty sal esperson,” she said. I think that experience helped me in my job as a race queen. The store where I worked was community-based, so it was important for me to learn how to remember customers. Not only did I have to match faces and names, but I had to write down everything, including which product this person had bought last time, what conversation we had, what clothes they were wearing, where they were from, and even their birthdays.

Because of this habit, even after I became a race queen I was good at remembering the faces and names of my fans. That often made me happy. I was happy to be able to look them in the eye and talk to them firmly, saying, ‘Mr. 00.’ ”

She was crowned “Race Queen of the Year 22-23,” and her career ended on a high note. Now that she has left the circuit, she looks ahead to 2012.

I want this year to be a year of ‘0 to 1. Up to now, I have cultivated many things as a race queen, and thanks to that, I have had more opportunities to receive high recognition, but I have decided to step out into the outside world in 2012.As soon as I step outside, I will become a “person with nothing. First of all, I want to make a “1,” no matter what it is.

When I think about it, it took me six years to reach the top as a race queen, so I think it will take me more than six years to accomplish something from here, or even 10 or 20 years. I want to be an entertainer who can move people’s emotions over a long period of time.
I hope you will watch over me as I start from “0.

Click here to see Marie Fujii’s gravure and movie