Make Believe Bonus: Utada Hikaru At Yoyogi National Gymnasium

What Makes Utada Utada

The true essence of what makes an Utada Hikaru live show special came right before the intermission at the second night of their Tokyo stop on their current tour.

Utada expressed familiar thanks and appreciations towards the audiences — sweet sentiments but boilerplate ones all the same — all in Japanese. Then the J-pop superstar suddenly skidded into English.

“Bless you!” they said suddenly, looking around. “Did somebody sneeze?”