Kyoko Goto -- Pegasus no Shojo（ペガサスの少女）

As I always say, there is always room for another Pegasus kayo. We've got the robust and fun-loving "Pegasus no Asa"（ペガサスの朝）by Hiroaki Igarashi（五十嵐浩晃）, and then I found another different song with the same winged animal.

This would be "Pegasus no Shojo" (Pegasus Girl) which was the theme song for a 1980s anime feature titled "Arion"（アリオン）adapted from a manga which had its run between 1979 and 1984. Singing the breezy theme is Kyoko Goto（後藤恭子）.

According to her J-Wiki bio, Goto had been selected from 6,118 entrants to sing the theme for "Arion" the movie, and she definitely got the big guns to write the song for her. Lyricist Takashi Matsumoto（松本隆）and composer Tetsuji Hayashi（林哲司）put together "Pegasus no Shojo" which caught my ear since it had that nostalgic 1980s aidoru-ish arrangement. And yet, Goto was never an aidoru; in fact, this was her only song although in the 1990s, she, Miki Ikuma（生間美紀）and Kaori Yanagi（柳香織）formed a short-lived singing trio called K3 Girls. Afterwards, Goto changed her name to Kyoko Fujimoto（藤本恭子）.

Goto went mostly into television acting and modeling once she got her foot in the door. Still, I think she did quite well with "Pegasus no Shojo", and the song had this cascading string sound which popped up twice which reminded me of some of Joe Hisaishi's（久石譲）work. Strangely enough, Hisaishi took care of the score for "Arion".