Nishida Hikaru Video Clips "HIKARU"

 
Part 2 of Hikaru's best and only (at the time) PV Collection was called "Hikaru Video Clips Since 1993, and featured:

１．涙 止まらない

２．きっと愛がある

３．人生変えちゃう夏かもね

４．C'mon³!

５．Go! Paradise

６．私のNO.1 ～You're the only one～

Along with her PVs, the video was filled with CMs and promo clips for her singles, and, as I've mentioned many times before, in the promo for Kitto Ai ga Aru, Hikaru actually rode her bicycle right past the old apartment where I was living at the time!

So crazy- If you look here in this screencap, see the window on the second floor? That's my apartment and that's my air conditioner for my bedroom!! If only I'd looked out the window at the time!

I moved out of there some time ago and the last time I drove by it, the entire Apartment had been gutted and renovated and turned into a bank!

Nishida Hikaru Video Clips: "NISHIDA"

As I had mentioned before, my introduction to Hikaru performing was through a Japanese broadcast of "Music Fair" where she did her single "Melody" as well as a medley of oldies. After that, I managed to get my hands on her back catalog of music (and fell in love instantly), but I had never seen any of her music promotion videos until I got hert twin VHS set "Hikaru Nishida Video Clips". Part One was called "Nishida" Video Clips Since 1988 and featured:

１．フィフティーン

２．Nice-Catch!

３．Natural Summer days

４．オーマイゴッド!!だね

５．ときめいて

６．生きてるって 素晴らしい

７．輝き! ください

Hikaru BOMB Cover 1995

 

Ah, BOMB Magazine, truly the bible of generations of fanboys for decades!!

Namida No Pearl Moon

Single "Namida No Pearl Moon", off of Hikaru's Tokimeki No Prologue"

Favorite Nishida Hikaru Singles "Namida Tomaranai"

 

One of my all-time favorite songs from Hikaru and possibly the very first PV I remember loving, off of her excellent VHS Video Clip NISHIDA/HIKARU which combined Hikaru's videos with CMs and promo clips.

Already a fave song off of her SUN DANCE album, seeing her passionately singing the song against the backdrop of flowers, it became even BETTER and from that point on I would always picture those images in my head when i'd listen to the album later!

西田ひかる- 涙止まらない

A太陽もひとりぼっちね

青空を見上げて思った

君と泳いだあの夏の日

よみがえるのよ”でも帰れない"

泣かないで涙が止まらないのに

どうして素直になれなかったの

ほほえみに着替えて 待ってみたいの

夏はもう来てる そこまで

もしもあなたが恋を失くして

帰り道さえ失くした時には

思い出してあの約束

振り返らずに歩こういつも

なかなかね 涙が止まらないのは

そうとう眩しい 思い出だから

"さみしい"と一言いったあなたの

心のふるえが伝わるの

太陽もひとりぼっち

夏はきっと悲しい季節

どうしても 涙が止まらないなら

ちょっぴり素直になればいいだけ

ほほえみに着替えて 待ってみたいの

夏はもう来てる そこまで

Sugar 1989 No.66

 

Favorite Hikaru Singles: C'mon, C'mon, C'mon

The theme song for the wacky drama Natsu! Depart Monogatari starring Tatsuya Yamaguchi of TOKIO fame as the bumbling but hard working department store clerk whose dream is to become a first rate employee and date the daughter of the company, played by Hikaru Nishida!

Though this show was fun and entertaining, I must warn anyone wanting to check this drama out for the sole purpose of seeing Nishida Hikaru: She's hardly in it at ALL! Far from what you might think by the promotional picture. (above) Hikaru only appears at random points in the show to smile at or encourage Yamaguchi as he bumbles earnestly through the latest problem! Sigh...but she does look nice when she's onscreen!

C'mon, C'mon, C'mon (or rather, C'mon3, as it's REALLY titled) played during the ending credits as the cast members all gathered together at the beach to play volleyball, followed by the TOKIO song “Soko Na Shi Love” as the previews for the next week’s episode ran...

Maybe it was the visual of the kids playing volleyball and having fun or the sheer poppiness of the song, but this tune always seemed like a really “genki” song, sure to put a smile on your face!

A nice bonus to picking up the C’mon3 single was the c/w song called “Go Beep”, which is a great, catchy little song she performed live on the “Live 2-4” tour that isn’t available on any album!

Below: Behind The Scenes via BOMB Magazine:

BOMB really was CHOCK full of good stuff for the budding J-pop/Idol enthusiast!

Favorite Hikaru Singles: "Melody"

My first exposure to Nishida Hikaru was through a zany comedy on NGN called “Natsu! Depart Monogatari” starring TOKIO’s Tatsuya Yamashita and Hikaru. Though it barely showed Hikaru at all in it (more of a cameo character), she did sing the ending song "C'mon, C'mon, C'mon," which piqued my interest!

Then during a chance viewing on MUSIC FAIR, I caught Hikaru singing a variation of Oldies with fellow guests Uchida Yuki and a woman whose name I can't recall for the life of me , including an extremely cute rendition of "Kissing On The Phone", before she broke out her new single “Melody”…and boy, did that voice blow me away! Sultry and silky, I had to have that single, so I immediately went out and got it!

It could have ended there, but I loved that song  so much (as well as the Natsu Depart Monogatari song),that I was DYING to hear her other stuff!

At the same time, Golden, the Tower Records J-pop buyer in town, told me he'd ordered Hikaru's entire catalog of stuff, which got sent to the wrong store and did I want to go along with him and pick it up? Hell YEAH! Seeing All of Hikaru's wonderful back-catalog, I couldn't WAIT to purchase them and start DIGGING IN!

Clear, Esprit, Nineteen Dreams, Silhouette, Sundance, File Of Life, Love Always…. Over time, I managed to acquire her entire back catalog of CDs and Singles, (through such outlets as Tower Records, Shirokiya's BOOK OFF and the good old OTOKICHI PREMIUM), and I have to tell you that each and every CD and single has incredible sentimental value to me. I’d just moved to another town, and I spent many days taking walks around the neighborhood, listening to my walkman, Hikaru as my only and dearest companion!

Probably my greatest Hikaru moment was watching a video collection of hers. In the PV for her song “Kitto Aiga Aru”, she is riding her bicycle through what I immediately recognized as my own town! She rode past my neighborhood park, down my street, and THEN RIGHT PAST MY APARTMENT! I was in utter shock! Hikaru-chan had ridden right by my house ! Where the heck was I at that time?! :)

Hikaru-chan rides past my apartment!

I know that you all are wondering how it is that I even can tell that it's my apartment Hikaru's ridin' past in this screen capture. While it's true that there really isn't too much to go on, the CM for Kitto Aiga Aru shows a few different camera angles of this scene, including a pulled-back shot where you can clearly see Hikaru and my humble abode! AHAHAHAHAHA!