Hiromi Ohta -- Mangetsu no Yoru Kiminchi e Itta yo（満月の夜 君んちへ行ったよ）

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I'm not so familiar with Hiromi Ohta's（太田裕美）history that I know every move she's made in terms of her discography. However in 1983, she did want to jump onto the technopop bandwagon that a lot of her contemporaries had been trying out thus far. And the result was the October album "I do, You do ~ Anata Rashiku Watashi Rashiku"（I do, You do あなたらしく、わたしらしく...Just Like You, Just Like Me） which has been categorized as a New Music and Techno Kayo creation.

One of the tracks from "I do, You do", "Mangetsu no Yoru Kimichi e Itta" (I Went Over to Your Place on the Night of the Full Moon) was also released as Ohta's 23rd single in November 1983. Sounding like a synthesizer salsa number performed at a techno cabaret in an alt-universe Dieselpunk city of the 1950s, it still doesn't sound quite as technopop as I'd been expecting but perhaps the other tracks show some harder synth work.

Arranger Masaaki Omura（大村雅朗）took care of Ohta's basic melody with poet Natsuo Giniro（銀色夏生）handling the lyrics of a guy giddily sneaking over to his lady love's house (not sure whether Daddy came out with a shotgun) under the pen name of Mikiko Yamamoto（山本みき子）. The single itself did only modestly, peaking at No. 108.