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We're ready, let's go to work

*toddles toddles*

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Kumans start the day by having a morning meeting

1

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RRRRRRRRRRR

New morning has come to Kumans

I don't know what I wanted to do

Hmmmmm, I wonder if I wanted to give the manga an "everything was just a dream" type of ending because I thought it's not that fun to end the manga with Kumans' weeping.

It was too long ago to remember . . .

Well, all right!

I just didn't wanna keep those 5 Kumans in dirty diapers unknown!

I talked about Kumans for the first time in a long while. Taking this occasion please let me show you the unpublished story by uploading it here!

Hup!

Maybe I should have said this much earlier

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Where did this picture come from (lol)

Well, I mean . . .

My manga of Super Kumans I showed you here about 2 years ago, on June 30, 2008(Ahh memories!! I wonder if you'd remember it . . . )


The 6th pctures,

which shows the end of the story . . .

I regret to say this but

Looking at it now I assume

I uploaded an wrong picture at that time ! ! !


Awwwww ! !

（Ｔ0T　））（（　T0T)　W H Y !

I always check my message carefully every time after I upload it, but this did happen . . .


The "actual" end of the story should have been this picture above ! !

I just noticed this mistake after all these years, as I was collecting the pictures of Super Kuman manga in the past for some reasons . . .

I guess some of you wondered and thought it didn't seem to add up when you saw it 2 years ago . . .

Ouch ouch~! !

So. Maybe it's too late to point this out, yet it's something very important for me(cause it's the end of the story, THE END PART OF THE STORY! Aahhhh my bad!), so with that said, if you don't mind, would you please check the manga at "Backnumber" of this website when you have some time to spare? And it would make me very very happy if you would replace the last 6th picture with the one above in your head . . .

I've gotta get this said

I can't keep quiet about this.

In an article by Sponichi about me there's this comment of Miyake-san, the producer of EMI, which says he "represents my feeling,"

And I was like "What the?!" - totally surprised, when I saw it.

It doesn't represent my feeling very well (lol)

Put simply, his comment is like "Being famous at the age of 15 made her unable to go to McDonalds and Shibuya 109. It seems she feels she's got a lot, lost a lot." Something like that.

I was so surprises as it totally missed the point, so I called Miyake-san to ask for the details. To ask him what was wrong with his comments. To ask him to explain about it.

Miyake-san said Sponichi made a call and he responded to it. Then Sponichi tweaked what he said, plus they mixed what he had said in an interview done like 10 years ago, and voila - that his comment was created. He told me this time he didn't say something like that.

Well I can understand it, since I had the same experience, like they developed something that wasn't in line with what I intended, by tweaking the content of interview with me. but


But, this is just

Too much~!

It's too different from what I'm feeling!
(´；ω；`) *cries*

McDonalds, 109 and such . . . it's ridiculous＿|￣|○

Maybe they wrote it that way thinking gossip-lovers would snap at it if they used some well-known proper names.

Matter of fact, I go to fast-food shops, use the restroom at convenience stores, take trains just normally＿|￣|○

I really can't take it if people think I would go on a hiatus from next year due to such low-level reason! (lol)

Well apart from that, the important thing is

I don't think "I've lost a lot!"

What's "to lost"?!

You keep getting things as long as you live!

Don't you?（*´ー｀*）

At least I live everyday with such a thought.

That's all for now!
“(`(エ)´)ﾉ彡☆ !!

First important announcement in a while

I can't believe how quickly time goes - it's already been 12 years since my debut with "Automatic," which was called "that sensational video of dancing in a low ceiling room."(lol) I was 15 at that time.


Lately when I first meet someone they say, "Oh so you're still 27~! I thought you would be around 30, since I have this image that you have a very long career~. And you looked quite grown-up when you debuted."


27 years old, it's young in a sense . . . but not that young in another sense.


When I think back I find I've always worked on music ever since I was 15. Spent my life overprotected by people around, so that "Utada Hikaru" can stick to music. People say I have plenty of life experience for my age, but as a matter of fact what I've experienced is quite lopsided.


I have had chances to do something uncommon thanks to this job. I thank you all my fans, all my staff from the bottom of my heart.


That said, there is this part of me which has stunted since around 15, when I started living my life focused on artist activities. That is the part, important as a human being.


Over the past 12 years I've challenged various things as an artist, and I think I've grown up a bit through those experiences. And I need to grow up as a person, aside from music, to evolve further.


Based on those thoughts I have made a big decision!




I am going to stop flashy "artist activities" for a while and focus on "human activities, " starting from next year.




This is not a "retirement announcement"! Nor is this "rest" or "recreation."


This period is going to be the period form me to face the real me as a person, by studying something new eagerly and humbly, seeing and learning things in this while world I don't know yet. I think that's something that should be called "human activities," different from "artist activities."


And that should lead to my growth as an artist too, as a result.


Of course I may be making music or singing as I like, during that time.


When the time comes that I realize I have grown up a little as a person, and I feel the need to let you all hear my music, that is about time I should do so.




I didn't like it just to hide without showing up in front of my fans, and to jump into "human activities" with no regrets, I'm gonna go on full-throttle to do music activities till the end of this year!


First of all, I'm gonna release Single Collection vol 2 in upcoming autumn. I've made a lot of singles after the relase of vol 1.


This time I'll put some new songs in it!


Maybe 4 songs or so, 5 hopefully . . . ! I'm right in the middle of recording, trying to make them something that can tell you my recent feelings, change of my heart. Pleae wait for a while, I'll let you know as soon as the release date is fixed.


Other than that there are more things already fixed and I'll tell you about them soon! Like, a CM I appear in and such . . . expect a lot!




I thank all the staff of EMI being receptive to my offer to take off from artist activities from next year.


I've always made them nervous or worried, still they've always believed in me, supported me. Thank you very much.


I can focus on "human activities" with an easy mind thinking they will wait for my return, believing me.


I guess each one of you has a different impression on my decision, but please believe me and wait for my return. I have no idea how long it gonna be - 2 years or 5 years, but I shall return, more matured. Give me some time.


Well before that I'm gonna release new songs in autumn, then winter and there should be some opportunities to show you recent me, as well as interact each other. So that's all for today. (Also I'm thinking of starting twitter for a limited time! That way I can reply to you directly)


Last of all, thank you for reading this long message. I hope this can help to tell you my current feeling, as much as possible.


August 9th 2010


Utada Hikaru

Life with flowers

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Yesterday I received a beautiful bouquet at work

By holding it your hands are full of flowers, and there are various kind of flowers in it, various and fantastic enough to make you think the air you breathe would consist of more flower scents than oxygen . . .

Especially this big ajisai(hydrangea) is breathtakingly beeeeeeeeautiful!

So last night, when I returned home eshausted after doing a big job for the first time in a while first I had a shower and all I needed was just to relax and hit the sack, but . . .

Flowers!! Yes, flowers!! Gotta move them into a vase!!

That thought hit me! then

I started disassembling the big bouquet in the kitchen

And figured out it was much bigger than I thought!!

Other than big hydrangea what I found were: 2 x huge winding leaves; approx. 40 x blue roses; approx. 20 to 30 x purple flower which I don't know the name; 3 x skinny long-legged ghost like white flowers; 2 x reminds-you-of-a-mixture-of-heaven-and-southern-island looking huge leaves (I love these but totally forgot the name); 1 x yellow-green, blueberry like thing; 2 x red-edged leaves . . .

I have to admit all the vases at home (4 in total, big ones and small ones) are completely outnumbered . . . ! ! !

So I couldn't help but pull out this and that like empty bottles and such, to put flowers in vases and them one after another, pondering the combination of each flower.

I got all excited, going hyper alone at midnight thanks to dopamine secretion in my brain in the middle of those works! (in the quiet of the night)

I did finish putting the flowers in the vases but . . .


There's no decent space to place them ! ! ! !
(TДT)

So I just put them wherever I could put them. At the side of the TV, on the table, on the bookshelf, in the kitchen, toilet, bathroom!

Flowers, flowers, flowers are everywhere, all around my house!

My life surrounded flowers has begun~.

Pity those cut flowers can't live long . . . I'll love them as long as possible, changing water for them everyday! （*´ー｀*）

Father's birthday

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I got an invitation to high school reunion. It says . . .


Te….10th anniversary ?!


YIKES ! !

So it's been 10 years already!

Never thought time would go by this fast.

It seems like I receive the invitation to reunion every year（＾＾；）

Is this how it goes? Aren't you gonna appreaciate it less if you met your classmates every year?

Is it also common to hold it every year in Japan?

Actually I've never attended it so far . . . I occasionally meet my friends whom I wanna meet, and I didn't have much chances to get myself concerned with the school deeply as the things went pretty crazy soon after I moved to this senior high and debuted.(・ε・` )

Every year the place of reunion is chosen by a questionnaire since the graduates are all scattered across different parts of the world. Most of the time the result ends up being devided in two, either US west coast or east coast. It was held in San Fransisco last year if I remember it right.

They say, this year it's to be held in New York! Then I might be able to make it! I feel kind happy about it!

I guess there should be some people who wold come all the way to the US from overseas . . . just for the reunion. Just how desperately they wanna reunion their classmates! (lol)

So perhaps it's held every year taking people living in different countries into consideration. Because you know, not many people would gather if it's held once every five years.


Hmmm so it's already been 10 years since I graduated from senior high~! It was just after I released "Wait & See ~RISK~." I was 17 years old!

In America you enter schools in September and finish them in June, so the time around now in summer gives me kind of sweet-sour feeling. Maybe in Japan you would feel this feeling in around early spring I guess. The excitement, high aspirations you get before you enter a college or start a new semester, and the sense of loneliness made by graduation. So many feelings come to my mind.

And after that . . . it's been a long 10 years I should say. ＿|￣|○

It's been like, I juggled around here and there, following my interests, feeling my way, not caring about myself at all, without learning what it means to relate to others, what it means to take care of people around, having enjoyed lots of fun things with no responsibility nor reproach. I did well in business but matter of fact is I was running on the road to perdition . . . something like that, it was.

Woot, this looks pretty much like I enjoyed my youth doesn't it ! ! ! (Er, am I wrong on this? (lol))

Seems like my youth has lasted pretty long (lol) I mean, it seems like I've been a child for a long time.

I made some pretty grand statements in my book I released as the 10th anniversary of my debut, and I think I wrote them in a way like to shake off people around, and it was a selfish revealing.

I would like to face myself more level-headedly, grounded, with love, and interact with myself and people around.


Those thought come into my mind this summer, 27th summer for me.


What I've written above has nothing to do with this but today is my father's birthday.

Dad, happy birthday to you

Mother's birthday

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Today was my mother's birthday

I woke up early in the morning, at 5.30am

Hopped on the train

to go to the Chiba Park

to see Ooga lotus

which is desinated as a natural treasure, known as "the world's oldest flower"

all alone - - - - - ! ! !

Yaaaaaaaaay ! ! !
“(`(エ)´)ﾉ彡☆ !!

It's been a loooooooooooooong time since I last took a train in Tokyo! All alone! All the way to Chiba! Woot!

. . . Huh? Did you say "All alone"? (and excited that much . . . ?!)

Y, yes . . . all alone . . .

Cause . . .I happened to learn the blooming of Ooga lotus thing in Chiba Park on a TV news, and I happend to feel like going there to see it, and I happened to check it on the net . . . and I found out this Ooga lotus was to come into bloom at around from 6 to 7 am, then start to close at around 9am, so you gotta come to see it at 8am or so.

"Too early! (tough for musicians)" I thought, but I decided to go to Chiba by myself, thanks to my strange positive energy!

Actually it didn't have to be "all alone" but . . . say . . . whom could I ask to come with me for such a thing . . .＿|￣|○

Well I've got a couple of friends I could ask, but do you dare to ask this to them?! Or if you were them do you wanna be asked such a thing ?!

Would you dare to meet me at the station at 6.30am to go all the way to Chiba just to see a lotus?!

If I were my friend,

I would respectfully decline the offer ! ! ! (lol)

So. I went out on a petit solo journey.

That was really fun(●＾口＾●)

The Ooga lotus, this ancient flower woke up from 2,000 years sleep and came into bloom. Looked pretty elegant and beautiful.

A flower's life is short, but a plant's life is unmeasurable. Greatness of life~! Greatness of seed~!

A bug's life and a human's life, they don't make much difference . . . this morning just before I left my house I encounted a roach in the bathroom. I screamed around like "Aaaaaaaghh" "Awww" "Y, Yarrr!! I'm sorry! Sorry!!!" and killed him . . . I feel guilty. I couldn't help but feel I gotta kill them every time I find them, but come to think of it I might not need to kill them actually . . . but but what if they arrived in large numbers? . . . if only I had the skill to catch them and let them loose into the balcony . . .

That's what I was idly thinking on that day in the morning. Surrounded by lots of old men and women who came to see Ooga lotus . . .

Every time I have a close look at a lotus it makes me think "how big it is!" Perhaps you can't get its fineness through this photo but anyway the flower looks beautiful, isn't it(´▽`)

So. What I wrote has nothing to do with this but

Mom, happy birthday to you