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aero.senpai said:
Hey, guys, what about the Wakana issue?
To be honest, I'm scared of writing because 1) we could get ignored 2) we could get a negative reaction from whoever we write to (if they sue us or something) if we don't make the letter clear and sensitive enough.
I just hope to the heavens above that in the next live video we see of them, Wakana will look/sound more like her old self.
Is the vegetable juice a good sign?
I wish it was...either way, she seems to be acting cheerful/optimistic...
I was just listening to some songs from Red Moon and I
think I can pick out a difference between her voice there and in After Eden - it's lost some of it's old full-sounding tone so her voice sounds thinner, less vibrant, less powerful and more scratchy. In other words, she sounds like an almost "watered down" version of former times. Wakana's voice used to have a sort of richness akin to Keiko's which rounded out her voice so that it didn't sound sharp even though her voice is high-pitched but now that her voice has sort of "thinned-out", it doesn't have that depth anymore so it sounds weaker and sharper.
It sounds a very much like it's just fatigue though, since voices in general (singing or speaking) just seem to go thinner when you're tired. So I think in the end Wakana's main problem is that she's tired and she's singing more than her throat is used to/can sustain, since back in the FJ days and when Kala wasn't as popular and they performed less, she seemed to cope fine. Of course, that flu probably made things worse. But I'm optimistic that it's not something like vocal nodules (dear god reading the wikipedia article had me imagining all sorts of things), it's just general tiredness and overexertion. Wakana’s stamina was never particularly good in the first place compared to the likes of Keiko, who can continue singing seemingly FOREVER (this is probably just me, but I swear her breathing is the loudest and most noticeable, so I tend to think her lung capacity isn’t as good…or maybe she just needs to work on breathing technique? I dunno…).
The overall general tiredness coupled on top of normal weariness she would get after singing a certain number of songs probably snowballed the effect so that she started to struggle earlier in the concert than she normally would’ve, and that general tiredness has probably slowed down her recovery speed so she wasn’t able to really pull back fully like she used to be able to during the MC/costume breaks as well.
Plus I swear she’s lost weight. Wakana used to be the plumpest one, but now she’s almost thinner than Hikaru
She’s still beautiful but…her arms were quite thin in After Eden! They were still amazing arms that I’d be so jealous of having, but they were thinner than I remember! They used to be rounder and less bony
Eat more, Wakana! Keep your energy levels up!
(she has goddamn amazing collar bones, though. I’d kill to have collarbones like that
)
/apologises for going slightly off-topic…
