Welcome to the Easter Weekend segment of "Kayo Kyoku Plus". Hopefully, everyone and their families are getting together and tucking into some fine dinner whether it be roast ham or chicken or the like. Some of the usual Easter chocolate wouldn't be bad either.
Marcos V. introduced 1980s-1990s aidoru Mikako Hashimoto（橋本美加子）a few years ago when she did a cover of the Eurobeat "Touch My Heart" in 1987. Well, I'm going back a little more in her career to show something more conventionally aidoru. In December 1985, she released her 4th single "Chotto Kokuhaku"（ちょっと告白...A Little Confession） but I'm covering the B-side today, "Juu-go no Melancholy" (Melancholy at 15), a song with a slight AOR rock beat. Not too bad a voice and the slight huskiness in her vocals matches the melody by Yoshio Tatano（多々納好夫）. Kazuo Shiina（椎名和夫）provided the arrangements (including that ghostly synthesizer which immediately brought nostalgia waves) while singer-songwriter Hiromi Kanda（神田広美）brought the lyrics under her pseudonym of Saiko or Ayako Kishida（岸田采子）.
Hashimoto was born in Osaka as Ayumi Sugimoto（杉本亜由美）and through the then-Warner Pioneer-sponsored audition called "The Scout '83", the future aidoru won the audition through her performance of Akina Nakamori's（中森明菜）"Twilight - Yugure Dayori" （トワイライト -夕暮れ便り-）. She made her debut in March 1985 with "Mellow Season"（メロウ・シーズン）. In her school days, she had belonged to the swim and tea ceremony clubs and also practiced Japanese dance. She's also said to be a huge fan of TUBE's vocalist Nobuteru Maeda（前田亘輝）.
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