As far as I'm concerned Hikki still has a fantastic singing voice, it has certainly changed but is still great. I would challenge anyone to listen to the opening of Prisoner Of Love and not fall to their knees, shedding tears of wonder. I don't think she's excessively overweight either, she's probably not as slim as she was during the Budokan days but I wouldn't say she was overweight. On music lovers she gets a nice little sway going during Celebrate, she looks fine to me. She looks fine on the POL dvd as well.

Who is this wretch that says her songs are boring! I certainly prefer a lot of her older works but the new stuff is not boring. Celebrate, Prisoner of Love and Take 5 are up there with the best she's done. Almost the best, Hikari is still perfection.