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Friday, January 28, 2022

Your Daily Hikaru

木曜日ytv「ten.」でした

ユキ先生のこのブルゾンの襟立ち具合が絶妙！

さすがですね！

まだまだ寒い日が続きます。

皆さまお身体に気をつけて〜 From Hikaru's Official Instagram Blog

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Sunday, January 9, 2022

Your Daily Hikaru

F今年初めてのytv「ten.」は木曜日！

今年もどうぞよろしくお願い致します。

From Hikaru's Official Instagram Blog

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Nishida Hikaru April 2022 Summit Calendar!

[Hikaru Nishida] ★ Calendar ★

′′ Hikaru Hikaru Calendar ′′ is on sale!

The calendar of this time is the beginning of April!

This is the calendar until March,

We are bringing you a communication sales.

Size is like last year, easy to use desk calendar!

Put it in your office or home and have a fun year with Hikaru-Chan.

Sunday, January 2, 2022

Sunday, December 26, 2021

Newly UPDATED Hikaru Nishida Top 60 Favorite Song List!!!

I've been in love with Nishida Hikaru and her music ever since I first heard her single "Melody" way back in 1996, and since then I've cherished just about every single thing she's ever done, her music ranking up there in my Top Five Favorite J-Pop artists of All-Time!!

Besides featuring some of the catchiest, poppiest and at time sad and lovely songs, every one of Hikaru's albums and singles also have an incredible amount of sentimental significance for me, so when I was asked recently which songs of hers were in my Top Ten, I knew it wouldn't be a query I could answer without some difficulty!

In fact, when I came right down to it, I couldn't do a fave list without any less than fifty positions, because there were just too darn many songs I loved that were of equal appreciation, and in the end, the best I could do was give a sort of "general" placement of the songs in the list.

By that I mean that a song ranked at, say, #11 isn't necessarily more loved than a song at #13, but probably more beloved than a song at #33 or so. But let's face it, I love everything Hikaru's done, and the list is merely a fun thing to look at to "spotlight" the songs of hers that have meant more to me and have gone even beyond beloved in my book!!

Z's 西田ひかる TOP 60 SONG LIST!

Updated 12.2021

1 Kokoro Dake Sobani Iru ~Here In My Heart -Esprit

2 Once Upon a Time -A File Of Life

3 Meguriai -19 Dreams

4 Miracle -Love Always

5 Kimi no Yuuki ni Kampai! -Esprit

6 Happy Dream -19 Dreams

7 HAPPY EVER AFTER -Love Always

8 Ikiterutte Subarashii -19 Dreams

9 Dear My Soul -Two-Four

10 Hohoemi ni Yakusoku -19 Dreams

11 Namida Tomaranai -Sun Dance

12 Oh My god! Da ne -Tokimeki No Prologue

13 Tokimeite -Esprit

14 A Song for You -Sun Dance

15 Don't Worry Yourself -Esprit

16 Juliette no Kuchibue -Clear

17 C'mon! C'mon! C’mon! -A File Of Life

18 Melody -Single

19 Kitto Ai ga Aru -Single

20 Rakuen Densetsu -A File Of Life

21 BIBIDEBU -Love Always

22 Tomodachi ni Naritai -19 Dreams

23 Koi Wa T-Shirt -Single

24 Sukida to Iwareta -19 Dreams

25 Nice-Catch! -Clear

26 Bimyou Na Kimochi -Single

27 Dear My Friends -Sun Dance

28 Fifteen -Clear

29 Madobe No Secret -Single

30 Jibun Rashiku Nareru Basho -A File Of Life

31 Youzashi ni Kakarete -19 Dreams

32 Aru Asa, Koi ni Tsuite Kangaetakoto -A File Of Life

33 Watashi no No.1 -Two-Four

34 Mamoritai no... -Love Always

35 Kesshin -Single

36 Sore ga Hajimari -A File Of Life

37 Tenshi Kara no Telepathy

38 Till The End Of Time -19 Dreams

39 Dolphin Christmas -Love Always

40 Te no Hira no Watashi -Tokimeki No Prologue

41 Iin Jyanai -The Singles

42 Go! Paradise (Sweet Beat Swing and Hikaru Version) -Single

43 Tsukiyo no Ningyo -Love Always

44 Watashi wa Watashi -Shiawase no Katachi

45 I'm Alright ~Yasashiku Naritai~ -Two-Four

46 Jun'ai Monogatari -Single

47 Totsuzen no Natsu -Two-Four

48 Egao No Tane~Seeds of Smile -Single

49 Go Beep! -Single

50 Natural Summer Days -Silhouette

51 Joy Train de Ikou -Two-Four

52 Kimi No Iru Hoshi -Single

53 Truth -Single

54 Over The Rainbow-What a Wonderful World -Single

55 Futari no Sora -A File Of Life

56 Shiawase wa Kitto -19 Dreams

57 Nakushitakunai no Anata o -Single

58 Pun Pun Pun -Tokimeki No Prologue

59 KISS -Esprit

60 Suki de... Suki de... Suki na no -Two-Four

61 Would You, Could You? -Love For All Seasons

62 Kagayaki! Kudasai -Sun Dance

63 Yes -Esprit

64 Seven Wonders -Single

65 Little Chance -Clear

Notes:

Looking over this list, it is pretty apparent which Hikaru Albums are my favorites! The list leans quite favorably towards her middle albums, the ones that I consider her “peak” releases: Esprit, 19 Dreams, Sundance and Love Always, with a handful of faves from later releases like A File Of Life, and the album that came out just as I was getting into her, Two-Four.

The releases that seem to appear less on my list are Hikaru’s early albums, Clear, Silhouette, Tokimeki No Prologue, where I always felt like she was still developing her own style and still sounding like the electronic j-pop of the early 80’s. It wasn’t until Esprit came along that I feel she came into herself, and from there, there was no stopping her!

A couple of albums that appear even more sporadically are Hikaru’s two later releases, Shiawase No Katachi and Love For All Seasons, and it’s not for lack of great songs. Though all the tracks on these albums are terrific tunes, because they came so much later than the previous albums, I'm not as sentimentally attached to them as the others!

Saturday, December 25, 2021

Merry Christmas!!!

Merry Christmas from Hikaru Nishida gracing the cover of the 1995 KOKIKU Magazine, the month where I first began exploring the wide world of J-dramas in general and set off a love that continues to this day!

Monday, December 20, 2021

In The Early Days of the Internet, We Had Geocities!!

While digging through some Hikaru Nishida memorabilia, I came across soe printouts from what were, at the time, just about the ONLY place to find information on your fave artists, that archaic web server GEOCITIES!

Back then graphics were as basic as you could get, but for a lad living in Hawaii and as far from Japan as he could be, the fan pages set up there were a treasure trove of information! Hikaru Nishida, Zard, Princess Princess Chisato Moritaka, there were fun pages to discover if you delved deep enough, and many, many scans and pin-ups to download!

One big drawback I had was that back then not a lot of regular computers could read Japanese characters, so you got that wingding looking "gobbledegook" (those pink symbols you see at the upper right of the page). You had to upload Japanese fonts into your computer to make it "decode" the stuff.

Ah, those early days, sitting at the computer wandering through GeoCities sites. there was a great Nishida Hikaru one called something like "Hikaru Land" and there was a map with 'islands" you clicked on to take you to the various departments. Wish I had kept an image of that page. Heck, I never even saved an image of my original Geocities J-drama trading page, the place where I got my namesake!

Spent all those nights on Geocities J-pop sites grabbing all the Hikaru goodness I could, and here are some of the images I still had on my harddrive!

As you may have guessed, BOY did I LOVE these pics!!!

I remember there were more- one of Hikaru catching a piece of toast. Wonder where these images all initially came from?

Wednesday, December 1, 2021

A Laserdisc I STILL Don't Have: "Hikaru Nishida in Los Angeles"

As I had mentioned before in my post gushing about Hikaru's wonderful debut concert "Manatsu NO Surprise",my primary goal was to get all of Hikaru's Concert laserdiscs, and while I (happily) succeeded in acquiring all of Hikaru's Live Releases, there were still many outlying non-concert laserdisc releases I'm missing, and one of them is the above pictured "Hikaru in L.A".

Not only Do I not Have the disc, I'm not even sure what's IN it. I see songs listed on the back cover. Is it an MV collection? Is it like Coco's "Waiiha De CoCo" where they just play the songs in the background while the artist is walking around town? Would DEARLY like to know!