I'm not sure what it is...maybe it's her arrangers or her pleasantly feathery voice, but Michiru Kojima（児島未散） has always struck me as this very wholesome lady throughout her music career. You'd probably expect her face to adorn a box of healthy cereal.
Case in point: I found another wonderful number by her. It's her 4th single from August 1989, "Yume no Temae de" (On the Verge of a Dream), a love song which starts out sounding faintly like an old Chicago (the band) ballad but goes into a mid-tempo beat with some breezy vocals and arrangement by Koji Makaino（馬飼野康二）who also took care of the core melody. Etsuko Kisugi（来生えつこ）provided the lyrics about falling in love and getting ready to make that catch.
I was surprised to find out that such a mature and dramatic song was used as the ending theme for the 1989 remake of the anime "Konchu Monogatari Minashigo Hacchi"（昆虫物語 みなしごハッチ...The Adventures of Hutch the Honeybee） which I used to read as a little kid in manga form.
From what I remember, the anime was pretty dramatic, in fact, way more so than the Saturday cartoons back in my country of origin. If memory serves me, Hutch is born alone because the wasps have attached and destroyed his hive. He is adopted but is never accepted by his siblings. He then sets out on a journey to find his mother and meets many friends who end up getting killed or dying, and many enemies along the way.ay(because he is not the same race or type of insect) before he finally finds his mother and sister. It seem to me that there are a lot of mature themes in this anime/manga.
ReplyDeleteI remember that "Hutch" had something of that tearjerker vibe to it. Perhaps the final scene was that of Hutch finally in the embrace of his mother's arms (or feet?) maybe after he himself succumbed to cruel nature.
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