Leciel Miyajima Reaches Her 400th Song With Orange Range’s “Hana” in a Heisei Singing Stream

RIOT MUSIC — Leciel Miyajima, a singer with Riot Music’s aaMugensho Record label, marked her 400th repertoire song on Tuesday night with Orange Range’s “Hana,” the centerpiece of a 71-minute Heisei-era *utawaku*, or singing stream, broadcast in vertical format.

She opened the set with GReeeeN’s “Kiseki,” which she first took to be her 400th song before realizing she had sung it before. She moved the milestone to the next track, “Hana,” a male-vocal song she said she found difficult. Chat congratulated her on the 400th song as soon as the first number ended and again afterward. She said she likes the Heisei era’s lyrics because they are direct, with none of the fancy phrasing of later pop.

“I love how direct the lyrics are. It’s not fancy phrasing, it’s just straight-out love, or ‘the miracle of meeting you.’ I really love that.” — Leciel Miyajima, on what she likes about Heisei songs

From there the set ran from singalongs to ballads. She led chat through call-and-response on the “Hamtaro” theme and sang “Ponpokorin,” and then “Yume wo Kanaete Doraemon.” She sang Kiroro’s “Nagai Aida,” which she said was a first for her, followed by a song by Kana Nishino, whose music she said had made her want to be a gal in her school days. Two male-vocal songs she had not sung before came next, including “Kowarekake no Radio.” She closed with “Ai wa Katsu,” and chat sang the title line along with her.

She said she picked songs for the 10-song set from ranking sites and made a point of including early-Heisei numbers she did not know in full herself, in the hope that younger viewers born in the Reiwa era would like them. During the stream chat sent 26 Super Chats, and viewers wrote that the songs had taken them back decades. She said a second Heisei round would likely come, possibly next year.

She shortened the evening because a morning singing stream was due at 10 a.m. the next day. She said that one would mostly revisit songs she had sung before, and she invited viewers to drop in on a lunch break.