Hikki's just so amazing, but she needs better marketing strategies. i know everyone will love her over here if they give her a chance.

I would love her to make it big here...

but her attitude during the last album's promotion really just...killed any glimmer hope I ever had for it.

So meh. She's big enough.

Well... she got huge with no actual effort, all the marketing strategies she excells works for someone that is already famous, but not for someone who still is unknown...

yeah i dont know what hikki thinks shes doing here in america. like if shes gonna make r&b she going to have to try a lot harder than that. there are so many people trying to become famous in that genre and pop genre of course too and sadly, TITO is a good album but to any casual mainstream radio listener it can just fit in with songs that are good for a month and then forgettable. there are good artists out there who i must say made albums as good if not better than TITO. so if hikki wants to be up there. . .she has like a super long road with the way shes going. its like hikki can make a good album if she wants too. whether she puts all of herself into every song on that album to make it amazing is her. i dont think she deserves a lot of fame with TITO. no more than anyone else out there really. . .thats just personal taste with that opinion. after having it crammed in my ears my whole life anything r&b influenced can go in one ear and out hte other unless its amazing

hikki should go all out. and show some of that real creativity. where are more songs like Me Meuro. FYI. . . .no more Automatic part II. its like trying too hard to be there and its not (for me)

urghhh... just watch the prisoner of love pv again and realised how much i miss hikki! :'(

I wish Hikki had twitter :(

she has a myspace
I think

question. . .what would be a good hikki forum to join? . . im never a forum person but i joined ahs this yr and i wanna be on a hikki one too.

merci beaucoup

I remember this website where it had all of her videos and
we could chat with other people

I forgot what was the website but I remember the layout was for Devil Inside
she was holding a guitar the layout was red

Eh... Utada-Online was great. But the admin couldn't afford to keep it up anymore and now he just runs the amazing U.Blog! I hear UtadaNet is good, but nothing will replace U-O for me. :( I'd go there if I were you~

There's hikaruforums too, but they... not much is about Utada unless it's bashing, sadly. They say they just know how to properly criticize her but they're just flat out ignorant. =\

I know :(

I've been listening to Exodus a lot lately and I miss her so much :weep

Hikki come back to me! <3

^^I've put up with them all these years. :P I really love your exit too. I think firething has that saved on his computer forever and ever. haha. They are mean if they get to know you. If you do join, just don't get too comfortable. I know them well enough to tell you that they wouldn't just bash on a new comer. But don't let them know much about you or get too involved in their conversations or they will turn on you haha. and i enjoy it there. It's the one forum where I can talk about anything. drugs, sex, religion, politics, personal problems, etc. and I don't have to worry about anything getting "censored" or "trashed". yay. However, it's not for the faint at heart.

I really dont' think there is a "good" hikaru forums. I did enjoy UO in my time. (never joined but I stalked for a while. ;D) but nothing will compare to it.

There's a few new Japanese messages from Hikki~
http://www.u3music.com/message/index...042322365j.xml

Has anyone here watched Innocent Love? I just did finally and omg, I was shocked at how good it was~

aww, i miss U-O too. i had great times there. :) i followed everyone to hikaruforums too, but yeah, i felt like it was more of a clique than a forum. everyone knows each other and there was always drama (even though i was never part of it because i wasn't part the group w/ the mods & stuff. :laugh)

but anyways, i hope there's something new w/ Hikki coming up soon. i miss her! :P

Yeah...imo this is the best place to talk about hikki lol

everywhere else sucks ;)

but of course, we don't have the same resources as a whole site dedicated to her would have...

My attempt to translate the messages that U-blog hasn't translated yet.. Beware of non-fluentness :)



*Note: I couldn't find a proper translation for "remipan", but I googled it and it's the type of pan you can see in her picture. With the strange lid. It's probably to make things easier for people who aren't too good at cooking :laugh

I have to go to school now but I'll be back later to finish the last 2 messages.

Hmm then I guess I'll double-post 'cause I'm back to translate the rest.



*1: She says umauma, which means "this is good", but I guess when you don't put the intonation on the u, it means something quite different.

*2: She randomply pastes the character 軒 behind her name, which my dictionary translates to "eaves" but I have no idea what she means.

*3: Couldn't be arsed to individually look up all these characters. It's about food anyway. Babelfish says "This store proud germination unpolished rice attachment". Riiiight.

Also I spent over an hour translating that final message so I really hope it's alright O_o I found it very difficult, so I could be completely wrong. Let's wait for the U-blog translations, but at least you guys now get the gist of it.

Also, not a grain of news. Nothing about a song, single, album or whatsoever

(Also I didn't understand the part about the "other person's blog" and the messe, sorry)

Quiet for a decade, and when she finally speaks, she just writes to tell us she had dinner.

Utada in a nutshell... Don't know whether to laufgh or cry^^;


Thanks for the translation though. Hoping for a new song this year!

That's exactly how I felt. I was like "did I just spend 2 hours translating her recipes?" haha

and you're welcome :)

When is she going to release something???????