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まだまだ寒いですがユキ先生のピンクの半袖ドットワンピースにレースのブルゾンカーディガン
足早く春です！
スタジオの密を避けるため、別室からの出演でした！:
Thursday, February 17, 2022
Sunday, February 6, 2022
Favorite Hikaru Singles: Ikiterutte Subarashii
Another one of my BIG favorite Singles from Hikaru, from her excellent 19 Dreams album....
Friday, January 28, 2022
Your Daily Hikaru
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
Sunday, January 9, 2022
Nishida Hikaru April 2022 Summit 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!!
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!
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
A Laserdisc I STILL Don't Have: "Hikaru Nishida in Los Angeles"
Thursday, November 25, 2021
Your Daily Hikaru
With 「ラヴィット」"Love It" Television Show~ Hikaru said how she couldn't run fast enough!
From Hikaru's Official Instagram Blog
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