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NEWS: Short Video of Halko Momoi's Hawaii Performance Posted

Halko Momoi

An Introduction

The singer, Halko Momoi, started off in the mid-1990's as a fan of anime and and wanted to make it as an idol in Japan. In the last few years, she's started performing music for various games and TV shows in Japan as well as voices for games and anime. She's become really popular in the last few years, signing on with one of Japan's biggest record labels, Avex Entertainment.

She now has fans from all corners of the earth across many countries. Even with this success, she hasn't forgotten the people who've supported her from the start. The Honolulu Festival is her second official appearance in the United States with many more to come.

We thank you for being here and hope you enjoy her performance today.

Her personal messages continues to be transmitted by her own songwriting and music composition efforts. In those lyrics, there are very few people unable to become confident. In the songs "Saigo no Rokku" ("Final Rock") "Yume no Baton" ("Dream staff") talk of the following things.

"There may be nobody around who understands why you love the things you do, and though you may be lonely, somewhere in this world there is someone who will share your interests. And so don't give up; keep on saying you love these things."

Those words are personified through her promotional work, as a cosplaying voice actress, among other things. Dressed in a maid cafe waitress, happily adorned cat ears, she appears on stage to be incredibly happy. "I've been looking forward to this event," she might think, appearing as a character she's done voice work for. On a Youtube-like, self-submission video site "Nico Nico Douga" (nicovideo.jp), she uploads her own performance videos and she logs on to check the comments posted through the computer. From everything Momoi does, she appears to be enjoying herself from the bottom of her heart.

In 2007, after performances at Anime Expo and the German convention Connichi, she said in a radio interview basically the following:

"For Otaku, there are no borders."

Though nationality changes, otaku share the same feelings. They like what they like; cute things are cute. It's like after attaining Level -your thirties- you've reached your lot in life. Don't think, just feel!

Halko Momoi (桃井はるこ)

14th Annual Honolulu Festival!
Halko Momoi Performs Live!
Hawaii Convention Center
Mar. 15-16, 2008

This pamplet is a product of Momoi Halko's fans.

Over twenty years ago, Japanese idol music fans have been waving light sticks in concert halls.

In her young age, raised in this culture Momoi Halko grew and become a singer of anime and game music. And so in places she sings, it became natural to be bathed in a shining kaleidescope of light stick colors; a beautiful sight to behold.

Momoi Halko refers to this light as a "beacon of life."

Japanese fans, waving light sticks along to the rhythm, jump, clap, sing and dance. Perhaps for those of you it may be unusual and different from a scene of people freely enjoying the music in an individual fashion. However, this is an opportunity! Wouldn't you like to follow along with us in a style of Japanese live performance? It's not difficult. It's just a matter of getting a light stick and jumping with the rest of us.

Let's jump!

What, you've never heard of Halko? No problem. it was the same for me back in the day! But man, idol concerts are wild and way fun! In the genki and sweet and kawaii, her performances are a cut above. She's shot us all straight through the heart. What about you? Come check it out! Calling all first-timers! It's enough to make it to the convention center. Come and show support! Great times, guaranteed.