Ce 31 décembre 2016, que nous a réservé le 67e Kôhaku Uta Gassen (紅白歌合戦) de la NHK ? Toujours l'occasion de faire le point sur l'année culturelle écoulée, on peut aussi y d'admirer de jolis kimonos chez les artistes traditionnels, plus discrets dans les média le reste du temps.
Placé sous le signe des JO de Rio et de Shin Godzilla entre autres, il était co-animé par les "capitaines d'équipe": l'actrice et mannequin Arimura Kasumi (有村架純), qui participe actuellement à une célèbre campagne de pub d'AU (équipe rouge), et Aiba Masaki (相葉雅紀), membre du groupe ARASHI (équipe blanche).
Placé sous le signe des JO de Rio et de Shin Godzilla entre autres, il était co-animé par les "capitaines d'équipe": l'actrice et mannequin Arimura Kasumi (有村架純), qui participe actuellement à une célèbre campagne de pub d'AU (équipe rouge), et Aiba Masaki (相葉雅紀), membre du groupe ARASHI (équipe blanche).
Si les Rouges (voix féminines) pouvaient compter sur la 1ere participation de Utada Hikaru pour son retour tant attendu après 5 ans de pause, les Blancs (voix masculines) partaient largement favoris avec celles des humoristes de Radio Fish, gros succès du printemps, de Kiritani Kenta, héros populaire aux côtés de Arimura Kasumi, et enfin de Radwimps grâce au thème du gros succès du cinéma d'animation Kimi no na wa (Your Name) !
On this 31th of December 2016, what did the NHK's 67th Kouhaku Uta Gassen (紅白歌合戦) offer to us ? Always an occasion to sum up the cultural year, one can also see wonderful kimonos weared by the traditional artists, more discret in the media the rest of the time.
Placed under the sign of the Rio Olympic Games and of Shin Godzilla among others, it was co-animated by the "team captains": actress and model Arimura Kasumi (有村架純), who participates to a famous ad campaign of AU (red team), and Inohara Yoshihiko (井ノ原快彦), Arashi band's member (white team).
Placed under the sign of the Rio Olympic Games and of Shin Godzilla among others, it was co-animated by the "team captains": actress and model Arimura Kasumi (有村架純), who participates to a famous ad campaign of AU (red team), and Inohara Yoshihiko (井ノ原快彦), Arashi band's member (white team).
If the Reds (female vocals) could rely on the 1st participation of Utada Hikaru for her highly-hoped comeback after a 5-year break, the Whites (male vocals) were favorites with the ones of the humorists of Radio Fish, big spring hit, of Kiritani Kenta, popular hero beside Arimura Kasumi, and finally of Radwimps thanks to the theme of the huge success in animation movie Kimi no na wa (Your Name) !
67e Kôhaku Uta Gassen (2016)
Anthologies et/and frustration


D'une durée de 3h30, ce Kôhaku avait pour slogan "夢を歌おう", (Yume wo utaô, "Chantons nos rêves"). Après une ouverture de rideau façon défilé d'athlètes à la cérémonie d'ouverture des JO, Matsuda Seiko et Hoshino Gen en porte-drapeaux des Rouges et des Blancs respectivement, c'est l'équipe blanche qui lance les "hostilités" avec les Johnny's de Kanjani8 (関ジャニ∞) depuis une nouvelle petite scène installée au 1er niveau des gradins. Ils chantent un de leurs titres de 2007, ズッコケ男道 (Zukkoke Otokomichi, "La voie des Hommes... qui se plantent") en allant rejoindre la scène principale.


It's a pop-rock duet star in the late 90s-2000s, PUFFY (aka Puffy AmiYumi), who replies with a medley : アジアの純真 (Asia no junshin, "Asia's innocence"), 渚にまつわるエトセトラ (Nagisa ni matsu waru ETCAETERA, "About the shores, etc"). She were participating for the 1st time, to celebrate their 20th year of career !

Then it's AAA, a male and female band between Idols and boysbands/girlsbands who follows with "Hurricane Lili, Boston Mary", theme song of a drama in 2006. Last year, they were in the girls' team but this time they were in the white team, while getting everybody turn their scarf ! Note that one of the 2 women, Chiaki, will left the band in March 2017.

The danse-oriented super-band of the E-girls take over the dancefloor with Dance with me now, a song of their 2016 Best of, with a choreography which beats all the "challengers" of the evening ! Here too, an announced retirement: singer-dancer Erie from unit Dream.

A noter que le mangaka Akimoto Osamu, fan déclaré de PUFFY, était invité pour la fin de son manga comique こち亀, "Kochi kame", en abrégé, pas très connu à l'étranger mais qui est très populaire au Japon, et qui détient rien moins que le record de volumes pour un manga: 200 (et oui, le policier de quartier Ryôtsu Kankichi bat pour l'instant Son-Goku et Luffy à plates coutures, sur ce point-là ^^) !
We have a presentation of the "jury", mainly Olympic and Paralympic athletes back from Rio, and actors and actresses such as Aragaki Yui (新垣結衣) from drama Nigeru wa haji daga yaku ni tatsu (逃げるは恥だが役に立つ, subtitled in English "We married as a job") starring singer Hoshino Gen (星野源).
Note that the mangaka Akimoto Osamu, self-proclaimed fan of PUFFY, was invited for the end of its humorous manga こち亀, "Kochi kame" (abreviated), not very known abroad but which is very popular in Japan, and which holds nothing less than the record of volumes for a manga: 200 (yes, the local policeman Ryoutsu Kankichi beats for now easily Son-Goku and Luffy... on that point ^^) !



Some of the E-girls "challengers", precisely, who take their turn on the stage, with the young Idols of the 欅坂46 (Keyakizaki46), freshly launched in Major in 2016. The little sisters of the Nogizaka46 perform their 1st single : Silent Majority. A title which calls for freedom of choice, if not individualism, which is not precisely the slogan of Idols world though... 😛 A choreography simpler than the E-girls one's, but perfectly synchronised for this 1st participation.

Le 2e chante 流転の波止場 (Ruten no hatoba, "les allées et venues sur le quai"), en s'offrant les Nogizaka46 comme danseuses, au milieu desquelles il se change en Prince (de LU 😛) Charmant !

The 2nd sings 流転の波止場 (Ruten no hatoba, "comings and goings on the platform"), getting the Nogizaka46 as dancers, in the middle of who he turns into a Charming Prince !

It's miwa ho replies to him with 結 (Yui, "Link"), accompanied by a chorus of highschool girls from Kumamoto, strongly hit by earthquakes in April 2016. A performance which recalls strongly her live in Paris with students of the Touhoku some years after the tsunami and Fukushima.

We come back to the usual alternance with the Johnny's of Sexy Zone and their song よびすて (Yobisute, "Familiarly speaking"), released a short time ago in October 2016.
On confirme l'incrust' de Pikotarô (ピコ太郎), en train de jouer au chef d'orchestre ^^. Le leader d'Arashi, Ôno Satoshi, est en bien mauvaise posture entre lui et Nakata Atsuhiko de Radio Fish. Il est vrai que le succès inattendu du 1er sur les réseaux sociaux, avec l'aide de Justin Bieber, avec son titre d'1min PPAP a bien failli coûter leur invitation aux derniers, eux aussi comiques et auteurs d'un énorme succès dance - hip-hop, beaucoup plus travaillé, au printemps 2016 ^^ !


Tendô Yoshimi (天童よしみ) sings then あんたの花道 (An'ta no kadou, "Your flowers' path"), a song she already performed at the Kouhaku in 2002. She is accompanied as dancer by the too much kawaii Honda Marin (本田 真凜), young hope of the Japanese figure skating, as well as by some AKB48 members as backdancers.

Sekai no Owari présents a medley of RPG, theme-song of an animation movie of Crayon Shin-chan, and of their last-to-date single at that time, Hey Ho.

Ichikawa Yukino (市川由紀乃), fan of Hoshino Gen, celebrates her 1st participation, in front of her mother very moved, while she debuted at the end of the 90s. After a break where she took a "normal" job, she had come back in 2006 and one of her 2016 single was quite successful among Enka style: 心かさねて (kokoro kasanete, "Accumulate the hearts").

During an interlude, we learn that 2 persons try to force the entrance of the NHK Hall by pretending to having lost their invitation card. Yet they look like 2 big stars of the TV shows, animators Matsuko Deluxe and Tamori...

The following opposition begins with the Sandaime J-Soul Brothers with Welcome to Tokyo, along with 100 backdancers equipped of LED combinaisons and dispatched in all the hall ! The parent band EXILE was celebrating their 15 years at this moment.
Sandaime J Soul Brothers (3JSB) from EXILE TRIBE

Then it's the less flashy but more glamorous duet of Kôzai Kaori (香西かおり), Enka singer, and the gorgeous Hashimoto Manami as dancer, a gravure Idol and actress. She sings すき (Suki, "I like you"), after an intro with excerpt of the NHK drama (auto-promo inside ^^) about the famous samurai Sanada Yukimura, accompanied with the violin of Miura Fumiaki (三浦文彰).

Then we go and see the J-rock singer Sheena Ringo (椎名林檎) in live from "Neo Tokyo 2016" (the forum of the Tokyo City hall) for 青春の瞬き (Seishun no mabataki, "An blink of youth") with a show half flash-mob (freezed walking people), half projection-mapping.

Back on stage with Fukuda Kôhei (福田こうへい) and the song 東京五輪音頭 (Tokyo Gorin ondo, "Tokyo Olympic Games' tune", in 2020). In front of many artists dressed like for a traditional matsuri, he gets brought on a chair up to the tribune's stage !

Far more simply, Ayaka (絢香) performs again, for her 10 years of career, her 1st big success: 三日月 (Mikazuki, "Moon Crescent"), a ballad a bit sad where she can fully demonstrate her vocal skill.

The reply is given by the duet Gô Hiromi (郷ひろみ) as singer and Tsuchiya Tao (土屋 太鳳), actress, as dancer, for the Kayokyoku song of 1994 言えないよ (Ienai yo, "Unspeakable"). Tao, who studied the traditional Japanese dance (buyou) danced in the Japanese version of the famous Music Video of the Australian singer Sia, as it was released in Japan only in March 2016.

The Johnny's V6 propose a medley of WAになって踊ろう (Wa ni natte odorou, "Let's make a circle and dance") and Honey Beat, up to the small stage. They get interrogated just before by their colleague from Arashi for the Big News: one of them, Nagano Hiroshi, got married this year !

On retrouve nos 2 compères Matsuko et Tamori en coulisses, qui voient passer la machinerie, Mizumori étant toujours juchée dessus !

We find again our lost friends Matsuko and Tamori in backstage, which allows us to discover the machinery which Mizumori is still riding !
Kaori Mizumori
Ikimonogakari (いきものがかり), à l'instar d'Ayaka un peu plus tôt, reprennent leur 1er single et grand hit SAKURA pour fêter leurs 10 ans en Major. Une semaine plus tard, le trio pop-rock annonçait qu'ils faisaient une pause pour souffler et avoir un peu de temps pour eux. Bien content d'avoir pu les voir en live juste avant ^^' !
Like Ayaka a bit earlier, Ikimonogakari (いきものがかり) perform their 1st single and great hit SAKURA to celebrate their 10th year in Major. One week later, the pop-rock trio announced they were having a break to rest a little and get some time for themselves. I was so lucky for having seen them live just before ^^' !
Cho Ikimonobakari - Tennen Kinen Members BEST Selection - [Limited Edition: 4CD]
Le duo pop-rock et folk Yuzu (ゆず), qui lui fêtait ses 20 ans, a décidé de rendre hommage au parolier Ei Rokusuke (永 六輔), célèbre auteur dans les années 60-70s, décédé le 7 juillet 2016. Ils interprètent ici 見上げてごらん夜の星を (Miagete goran yoru no hoshi wo, "Levez les yeux aux étoiles du soir") sorti en single en 1963 par Sakamoto Kyu (pour qui Ei avait aussi écrit la chanson japonaise la plus vendue au monde : Ue wo muite arukô...) et qu'ils ont aussi sorti en single en 2016. On peut voir des photos de l'auteur projetées ; le groupe étant sur la scène du 1er gradin et la salle plongée dans le noir, les glowsticks des spectateurs donnent l'impression d'être effectivement en plein ciel étoilé !

On atteint ainsi la "mi-temps", où l'on a un 1er décompte des voix avec 922 066 pour les rouges et 1 435 170 pour les blancs. Pour la suite, c'est par ici ;-) !
It's time for the "half-time" break during which a first count gives 922 066 voices for the reds and 1 435 170 for the whites. To discover the end, it's over there ;-) !
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