Mizuki Nana to appear on NHK music program
Just announced yesterday on her official site, Nana-chan will be appearing NHK’s music program “Music Japan” sometime in Feburary. NHK are opening up draws for tickets to the recording of the program taking place on the 2nd Feburary. There’s some pretty big guns from mainstream Jpop artists there for this recording, most notably Koda Kumi is going to be there, so Nana-chan is going to be mixing it in with some fairly well known names.
More ever, and this is far from being an overstatement, she’s going to be charged with the duty to make some much needed good impressions for the Anisong genre as a whole on the general public. The last time NHK riding on the wave of general public interest towards Akiba cultural, they tried to pass off Shoko-tan, AKB48, and Leah Dizon as THE representatives of Akiba culture music during their annual Kouhaku program for 2007/08, which caused much uproar on 2ch whom were demanding true Anisong singers like KOTOKO, JAM Project, Sakamoto Maaya and Nana-chan should appear instead - and for once I can’t blame them either because not only were they extremely poor choices as representative of Akiba culture (only Shoko-tan sort of makes the cut, the other two are out of the question completely), their singing just don’t cut it either, even by seiyuu standards they are pretty bad. The last thing Anisong image needs are images of inferior quality catering to obsecure fetishes. Though with how experienced Nana-chan is at live events, it shouldn’t be a problem for her to make some impressions with her awesome vocals. Just hope that they choose a nice song (I’m thinking with how things are going right now, probably “Shin Ai” will be the number) and don’t get into all the moe talk and it should be ok.
Some people are also speculating that this is a move to pave way to get Nana-chan on Kouhaku this year. Who knows, maybe it will come true too, but it’s WAY too early to think about the end of 2009 right now.
January 10th, 2009 at 07:38
..please don’t remind me of that horrible experience of listening to Leah Dizon + AKB48 one after another. Shoko-tan’s performance that night wasn’t good as well.
This is a good deal for Nana. Can’t wait for the HD rip. :P
January 10th, 2009 at 09:22
Oh goodie. I can actually watch this one on TV instead of waiting for ripped streams as we carry NHK on cable here :D Unfortunately Music Japan likes to cut performances down to just 1 verse + chorus so I’m guessing Nana’s slot will be very short =_=
January 10th, 2009 at 10:08
GL on those tickets :p
January 10th, 2009 at 11:14
Regarding Kohaku, I found it pretty funny that they cut out the whole “Akiba” section this year. I guess inviting Leah Dizon wasn’t so good for their ratings LOL.
I’m happy to see Nana slowly moving on up. Eventually, I hope she can get to the point where she can make rounds for all the music programs like every other mainstream artist does whenever they need promotion.
January 10th, 2009 at 13:59
Good for her, and hopefully it all pans out. :3
January 12th, 2009 at 01:31
Can’t wait! Nana will be awesome! :D
January 15th, 2009 at 00:09
Dizon is probably out of it, after she announced her marriage recently.