fields of maiZe and berryZ

Well, I’m a little bit delayed, but here is my response to misa’s J-music survey. I’ve got a few songs embedded in here, just in case anyone wants to give a listen to some of the artists I talk about. It’s a little bit funny (this feeling inside… err… ahem… sorry wrong language of songs XD) talking about non-H!P, but still Japanese music on here. I don’t think I’ve done that before. I’ve had my random Hanson bits, or Toronto Raptors… But other J-music hasn’t really been covered here before. Oh well, a first time for everything!

So to start this thing off right, I’ll share some nice eye candy of a hot J-music man - Yamamoto Ryohei! XD (And, as I went looking for a pic of him online, it seems he now goes by just Ryohei… My bad…)

Now that that’s been taken care of, on with the survey!

1. What was the first Japanese song that you ever listened to?

The first Japanese song that I ever listened to was probably Moonlight Densetsu from Sailor Moon back in 1996 or so. The first non-anime song that I listened to was Hamasaki Ayumi’s ‘Depend on You’. I heard it through a video game (the game was Thousand Arms, and I never ended up finishing that RPG) but she’s obviously not immediately related to video game music when she’s mentioned.

2. Did it inspire you to like that group/singer, or did it turn you away?

For the Sailor Moon related music, I listened to anything I could get my hands on. I still know the lyrics to Sailor Venus’ image songs, Sailor Netune’s ‘Unmei wa Utsukushiku’ and ‘Moon Revenge’ from the Sailor Moon R movie. Even though I don’t listen to them much anymore, I still randomly get the urge to pop it into a playlist (like right now… XD). As for Ayumi, I haven’t listened to any of her new stuff, but I listened to her a bit more for a while. I love ‘Boys and Girls’, ‘Grateful Days’ and ‘Ourselves’ to name just a few off the top of my head.

Unmei wa Utsukushiku - Katsuki Masako

Moon Revenge - The Peach Hips

3. What is the one song that you have been listening to for the longest time?

I’d have to say the one J-pop song that I have listened to constantly for the longest time (as in it’s almost always on my J-pop playlist) is Matsuura Aya’s ‘Love Namida Iro’, which just so happens to be my second favourite H!P song ever.

4. What group/singer have you liked the longest?

That would definitely have to go to Morning Musume. I started liking Ayaya a little bit after finding MoMusu, so unfortunately I can’t give her this one.

5. What is the song with the most plays on your itunes/media player?

Berryz Koubou’s ‘Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba’ currently has the most plays on my iTunes with a count of 320-ish. I doubt that’s the song that I’ve listened to the most within my J-music lifetime, but it looks like it wins from my most recent computer reformat.

6. Is that song your favorite?

‘Kokuhaku no Funsui Hiroba’ is my favourite Berryz Koubou song, but definitely not my favourite J-pop or H!P song.

7. If not, what is?

H!P wise, my favourite song would be Matsuura Aya’s ‘Zutto Suki De Ii Desu Ka’.
Outside of H!P, I’d have to say ‘miss you’ by m-flo featuring Yamamoto Ryohei (so hot! and I LOVE his voice… It’s so soothing) and melody. I’ve been listening to miss you since it came out in 2003, and it’s a song that I could listen to continuously and never get tired of (and trust me, I’ve done this… My brother actually got tired of my playing the song so often back in the day).

m-flo feat. Yamamoto Ryohei & melody

8. Is there any one group that you can listen to all/most of the songs by? If so, who?

I wouldn’t say ALL of the songs, but most songs, probably Berryz Koubou and Matsuura Aya. Outside of H!P, possibly Sakamoto Maaya. I find her voice to be amazingly soothing, no matter the song. I have only recently listened to her things outside from what I’d heard from her through the animes RahXephon and Tsubasa (and Cardcaptor Sakura, which I belatedly found out she sang for), but from what I can gather, I like most of her stuff.

Hemisphere - Sakamoto Maaya (AMAZING song - the instrumental here blows my mind)

THE GARDEN OF EVERYTHING - Sakamoto Maaya feat. Steve Conte

9. What is your favorite agency?

… Um.. what’s an agency other that UFA? I don’t know these things… Does this include record labels? Oh bah! I’ll answer UFA, simply because I don’t know what goes under this category other than JE, and I don’t follow Johnny’s. So um, yea. UFA it is!

10. What is your favorite group/singer?

In H!P: favourite group - Berryz Koubou; favourite singer - Matsuura Aya
Non-H!P: male singer - Yamamoto Ryohei (like I said, sexy smooth voice - and HOT to boot! XD); female singer - Sakamoto Maaya
Non-H!P groups of note: Every Little Thing, Day After Tomorrow (I unfortunately lost all of the songs of theirs that I had during one of my hard drive crashes, and I haven’t been able to recover any of their stuff as of yet [actually, have been lazy and haven’t bothered search… But I think pengie of unchained is going to help me out in that respect, so YAY for pengie! (She also helped me out with my lack of Sakamoto Maaya music. I <3 pengie!)

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