[shadow*puppet]

i gotta agree with impactbreaker re: koda, her award seemed like a very obvious consolation prize... nearly all the winners of the best vocals prize in the past years were enka singers/traditional singers, never popular artists (winners of the past three years: kiyoshi hikawa, rimi natsukawa, kaori mizumori)... it seems a bit strange that this is the first time in a while they gave best vocals to a pop singer...

still i am VERY VERY VERY happy kiyoshi hikawa won... well-deserved!!!!!

ayufan, best vocals isn't always linked to the 10 nominees for the grand prize... especially before 2001... I think that trend only started 2001 onwards... someone else should have won! like yoshimi tendo or something




edit: whoops, yoshimi tendo already won best vocals... okay, at least chitose hajime or, if they wanted to award a pop singer, hitoto yo, ken hirai, so many more deserving than koda (no offense to fans)...

Originally Posted by ImpactBreaker

ayaka should have won the 2 prizes instead (best new artist and best vocals). ayaka's vocals crush koda's any day. It seems like they were really pitiful for Koda so they have to give her a consolation prize anyway, even if it mean doing something completely nonsense and random, honestly Yume no Uta has average/mediocre, almost bad vocals. Way to go on how technical and professional we can see these judges are!