As has been the case over the past several years, I've been keeping an eye on Shibuya whenever Halloween comes around because of the enormous crowds and cosplayers who show up on October 31st. Of course, there is the live camera pointed at the huge Shibuya Crossing but nowadays, there are those YouTubers who have done the walk-and-talk live broadcasts as they mill around the nooks and crannies of the Youth Mecca of Japan. Not sure how things went this year but my impression from the few minutes that I got from those sources is that though the huge rivers of humanity returned, there didn't seem to be the widespread mayhem of past years, but anyone who was actually there can set me straight.
In any case, I have one more Halloween tune here for 2024 and that would be former 80s aidoru Yu Hayami's（早見優）contribution in the form of "Yu-chan no Halloween" (Yu's Halloween). Written by Jimmy Brown（じみー・ぶらうん）and composed by Hiroshi Kishimoto（きしもと・ひろし）as this cute little toy march reminiscent of the somewhat more innocent event of the season that's been held on Omotesando Dori near Shibuya for many years, "Yu-chan no Halloween" is a track on the December 1992 album based on Hayami's own TV show "Hayami Yu no American Kids"（早見優のアメリカン・キッズ）, a kids' program that was broadcast every weekday for 15 minutes in the early evening between 1988 and 1994.
Because I'm typing this in the late afternoon on Halloween, the kids over here have yet to make their rounds of trick-or-treat. So, hopefully all of you children will have a good and safe time getting all that candy and stuff.
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