At 16:24 98/12/02 +0800, you wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Ivevei Upatkoon wrote:
> > When she appeared on last Saturday's Sports Urugusu it was a big
> > disaster too. -_-
> 
> I watched the program live.  She sat there doing nothing, just
> occassional short comments/answers.  

She had been in Sendai and Iwate from Thursday until Saturday, arriving
in Tokyo at 8pm... She was exhausted, and appearing on a program that
she really had no business appearing in. Sports Urugusu did not ask for
her, now did her staff request that she appear. It was pressure from way
up from Sony... That's why she just got tossed in the way she was. It 
was doomed from the start.

I hope the damage to her image is repairable. It's especially bad since
most of the people watching the program have never heard of her.

> Actually, if she is going into the idol-dom seriously, IMHO, she did not
> needed to be introduced as a seiyuu in the program.  (They showed a clip
> of Rayearth).

Rayearth was broadcast on that channel, I think. In any case, the whole
thing was a disaster. There was no viable reason why someone singing the
ending theme should appear. One fan works at the TV station but the only
thing he could manage to salvage was that they played the song a little
louder than usual at the end.

> The only relation of Hekiru and the program is the clip that she is
> pitching the opening of a certain baseball match years ago.  Of course,
> she is wearing uniform with "back number" 417.

It was last year, for Nippon Ham Fighters. Half the stadium was filled
with Hekiru fans who left after she pitched the ball. ^^;;;

At least she was really genki at Sapporo. I think events outside Tokyo
are much better, on average, since they can devote more time to the
guest. The radio is better too.

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