Apparently, there is a Room No. 909 in the manga and anime world as a base of attack for the famous assassin Golgo 13. Not sure how significant this room is in the grand scheme of things for him but I hope that he was able to get a weekday rate.
I was going to post a Miina Tominaga （冨永みーな）song here but seeing how similar it sounds to the subject of my previous posting, Akiko Nakazato's（中里あき子）"Do You Wanna Dance?", I've decided to hold off until next week. However, when I was taking another look at Tominaga's "Kanojo no Kare kara Watashi no Kare"（彼女の彼から私の彼）, I saw the name Shoichiro Hizume（日詰昭一郎）as the composer and decided to look him up.
There's a bit of information about Hizume that I added to that Tominaga article including his untimely death at the age of 43 in 2001 due to a cerebral hemorrhage. However, I would also like to state that the bassist and songwriter had begun his career as a studio musician from 1977 before finally going behind the microphone as a singer in 1988. He released two singles and two albums in 1988 and 1989 of which his second album was "Take a Chance" from August 1989. And from there, I would like to show you "Room No. 909" which was written and composed by Hizume.
I'm not sure whether the bassist had been inspired by that Golgo 13 episode, and to be honest, "Room No. 909" has got a pretty upbeat chorus in contrast to the tension-laden scene of the main character setting up for the kill. However, it would be a major coincidence if there were nothing between the room and the song. I gotta say that whoever's playing the saxophone, there's something of the blue-eyed soul or sophisticated pop injection into the arrangement.
Who knows, maybe Golgo 13 enjoyed Room No. 909, or maybe he prefers to use Room No. 909 in other buildings, too. If so, this song might express his feelings of joy using Room 909?
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