Sanae Yokota -- Fuantasy Night（不安タジー・ナイト）

 

A little over a month ago, I introduced 80s aidoru Sanae Yokota（横田早苗）via a B-side titled "Digital Lullaby"（デジタル ・ ララバイ）, but despite the name, it didn't sound like a techno aidoru kayo.

However, that A-side was "Fuantasy Night" which was Yokota's debut single from January 1983, and this one actually can be considered to be a sugary-sweet synthpop start to the Tokyo native's teenybopper career. As mentioned in the "Digital Lullaby" article, the oddly spelled fuantasy is a pun on "fantasy" and the Japanese term for "doubt", "fuan"（不安）.

And so why all the fuan? Well, according to Mayumi Hara's（原真弓）lyrics, a young girl and her possibly newly minted boyfriend are taking a walk through the park at night with the hopes that maybe that first kiss will come into play...only for the damned cold feet to suddenly creep in. Will they or won't they? In a way, I guess, the whole story in "Fuantasy Night" is a split personality in terms of the usual aidoru stories of having that romantic moment or ending up disappointed that nothing came out of the date.

Kimio Mizutani（水谷公生）was the one behind the basic melody and synthesizer arrangement which displayed the uncertainty of the situation. I gather that listeners weren't too sure either since "Fuantasy Night" only got as high as No. 110 on Oricon. One small piece of trivia is that the lyricist Hara isn't to be confused with fellow 80s aidoru Mayumi Hara（原真祐美）whose kanji is quite different.