[J!-ENT] A message from Momoi Halko to her American fans
July 21, 2007 by Dennis Amith
Greetings everyone,
After Anime Expo 2007, there have been several Momoi Halko fans wondering if whether or not Momoi Halko would want to come back to the US. Because of J!-ENT’s previous article coverage with Momoi Halko, I requested from her management for an official statement from Momoi-san to help squash any rumors and also to discuss her experience at Anime Expo 2007.
The following is written by Momoi Halko, translated in English by J!-ENT (Japan) Hiroshi Tagawa.
Photo courtesy of Avex Entertainment, Inc.
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To my American fans,
Hi, this is Momoi Halko.
About 2 weeks have passed since I got back to Japan. I have talked about ANIME EXPO 2007 in the United States to my Japanese fans on my radio program.
The American fans are wonderful and I was moved very much. I appreciate that they accepted my feelings that are from my songs.
The fans were very excited as they held their glow sticks in their hands and I was very happy.
On my last day for my live performance, all staff of Anime Expo 2007 worked very hard and did a good job to make my live performance successful.
From the first day, there were was a bit of trouble and I wrote them on my personal blog on my website, but the staff of Anime Expo 2007 understood my feelings, my thoughts and me.
Now I appreciate that I could do a wonderful live performance with their great cooperation.
I feel that Anime Expo is a very important place where American fans, Japanese fans and anime producers can hold hands and be closer with one another.
I hope that American fans, Japanese fans and all of us could be closer and have a friendly relationship with each other.
I am very happy that many people from other countries came to my live performance this time. I would like to have an exciting live performance for you again!
Thank you!
Sincerely,
Momoi Halko
i can’t wait to see her live in germany in about 50 days!
the connichi is not that big as the AX, but i hope that many german fans, ‘not-yet-fans’ and international otakus/guests/friends will see and celebrate her at her concerts!
see you soon! (hope so XD)
I very happy I make big Dream whit Momoi!
I the presindent of ChibiFest Las Vegas other J Pop Festival from USA, now I star very busy for make other dream whit Momoi, the second concert in America now this time in my event ChibiFest 2008!
I try my best for this dream!
Osaka!
Very nice. I love the picture.
i am in the picture! white bandana, right side
im glad momoi came back in the face of adversity to do a great concert for us. we hope to see her again soon! ^.^
I really do hope we see her at Anime Expo again! If she’s going next year, I’ll be there for sure!
I was at the concert, my first Idol concert. I loved everything about it! I want to see her sing again!
Nicely done bit of diplomatic language by Momoi because if you’re paying attention, it can be noted by what she does NOT say that AX really screwed their celebrity guests into the ground (much less the fans).
She makes it pretty clear where the problems lay… and that apparently there were attempts to “make pretty” by some of the staff at AX. I can certainly imagine a situation where some of the AX staff just royally clusterf**ks it up and other staff with a better idea of the big picture rush in to try and salvage.
It will be really interesting to see if AX can get any talent to speak of next year once word spreads - unless they completely overhaul their staff and bring in some expertise along with doing some serious “forehead on the floor” gomen nasai.
I did not get a chance to see this talented individual from by birth year and month sing. Does anybody know if there is any recorded online performance?
I really enjoy listening to Momoi’s singing voice.