[bluegie]

Her first appearance in Kouhaku was a bit... underwhelming, especially I watched live and saw the artist before her (Kiyoshi Hikawa) performed the song in the restricted area of a place in Japan after Earthquake recently. He was at a torn down palace sorta thing while she was in a studio. If I didn't see his part, I wouldn't be disappointed (I admit I'm a bit disappointed).

Edit: I don't really understand... I thought White would win cuz they won the first two votes, then they threw yellow balls out and turned out that red team won (Yes Hikki is safu hahaha). So the first two votes didn't really count at all??
Edit: Oh now I get it. During live audience vote and tv viewer vote, white team both won, so they got 4 extra balls (that's why the mascot put some yellow balls into white team's bucket before the final count). But in the end red still won by 9:5 (so without the first two votes, it would be 9:1).