thank you so much for all the translations tenshi!!
I LOVE these insights we get into her thoughts about her own career. She always seems so confident and professional, I kind of couldn't believe what I read when there was the sentence "The only years I can call good years are 2006 and 2007" (not the correct words, I know, but can't remember right now). She really is an awesome performer. I have to say, when I look at her covers of 2009, I don't see a scared Koda Kumi.
But I noticed that many people who are her fans for a longer time than I am said that her 2009 works weren't as good as her older ones, too.