A little bit of fan worship . . .

Hey, I just found something from a while ago explaining my Hekiru obsession. Scary how much the philosophy within this rant explains.

From how I first met her to why I like her so much, this is my story of Hekiru.

How I met Hekiru I first heard of Hekiru from the anime series Magic Knights Rayearth when I was in eigth grade. She played Hikaru, the leader of the Magic Knights. To tell the truth, I've never seen the anime, so I don't know how well she performed the role (I'm sure she did great though). I did listen to the music, however. Though Hekiru was the worst singer of the bunch, something about her voice stood out from those of the other two Magic Knights. While the other two had much more singing talent, they were similar and lacked personality. Hekiru had (and still has) a very distinctive voice. I couldn't stand her solo song, but I enjoyed her parts when she sang with the others.

The next time I heard Hekiru's voice, I wasn't even sure it was her. The song was called Dame yo! Dame yo! Dame yo!!, and I absoultely adored it (and still do). The voice bothered me however; it sounded so much like Hikaru except that the singing was much better. I didn't know who it was though, and I quickly grew obsessed with finding out whether the singer was Hekiru. Since it was summer vacation, I had nothing better to do than to listen to all the songs I had with Hekiru singing (which was two, plus those group songs). That was my first Hekiru obsession.

Yes, I found out eventually that Dame yo! Dame yo! Dame yo!! was sung by Hekiru, and I did get over that first obsession. I do remember thinking that Hekiru did have a good voice for slow songs when I first heard her sing Seiya no Tenshi-tachi, the MKR Christmas Carol.

It was that January when I finally stopped equating Hekiru with Hikaru. I bought an Anime Best CD, and I found out Shiina Hekiru had a song on there, kono yo de ichiban taisetsuna mono or "kono yo". It was hyper, rockish, and the singing was well done. I quickly became addicted, and realized that the way she had sung as Hikaru was not the way she sang for anything else. This artist was worth a chance.

My first J-pop CD order was placed during the early summer of 2000. When I was thinking of artists to buy, Hekiru came up as an afterthought. Some of my artists weren't sold on my site, and I thought I would try Hekiru. Because I loved "kono yo," and I needed a romanization, I decided to buy Face to Face. I figured that even if the rest of the CD was bad, I would finally be able to do a romanization on that song.

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Anime Central Baby!

Me? A shoulder angel? Despite the In Nomine obsession, who could have guessed? There is only one possible explanation for this: Anime Convention!!

Yes, folks, it's that time again, Anime Convention time, and I actually get to go to my first one. Sabi-chan and Me-chan are accompanying me, Sabi as the shoulder devil and Me-chan, as the person with the shoulders being posessed, complete with blue hair and all. So, it's pretty random and pretty good for a last minute costume idea. Despite the fact that I'm kinda down (try being sore in the arm and then smelling like formaldahyde, and see how good your mood is), I'm actually really, really exited, especially, because I have money for more than admission.

So, I'll probably be on tomorrow ranting about how good/bad the convention was and try and tell a few stories.

And as a side note, I have a weird concept for a comedy story. "The Day in the Death of Joe Tibbs," Tibbs, of course, being the shark that my partner and I are dissecting in biology. *sigh* Imagine the heroism of a shark who has donated his body to science and the frustration he must feel as everyone makes fun of him. And yes, I now know the difference between a male shark and a female shark. And we all know how much real world purpose that has.

Yes, I did win first for our school in the biology competition, beating out one Bio II student and one person from the other honor's course. I actually got congratulated too, an impossibility for the academic achievers.

Over and out.