Utaite Spotlight: Hanatan

[southerncross]

For ofurotaimu's anniversary month, we will be featuring two utaite spotlights each week. These two singers have uploaded collaborations with each other over the years. Last week, fascinais has featured Vivienne and Ten. For this week, stephieku and I will be writing about a very famous pair.

Hanatan/花たん/YuRiCa/ユリカ

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Hanatan, who is also known as YuRiCa, has been uploading songs since 2008 and is considered as one of the most beautiful voices of the community. She has a wide range and can hit really high notes like Usa. The beauty of Hanatan's voice lies in how much emotion she puts in the song. She sings uptempo songs best but she can do ballads perfectly as well. Her most famous work is her rendition of doriko's Romeo to Cinderella which has reached over 2 million views to date.

Aside from her Nico Nico Douga works, Hanatan is very active in the doujin music scene as YuRiCa. She has released albums with circles like Crest and Sound Holic that releases Touhou soundtracks. She has also released an album under her doujin circle, cordelia, entitled Colorful Flower.

She is mostly known to have collaborated with Pokota. You can view all their uploads in their HanaPoko mylist. But aside from Pokota, Hanatan has collaborated with Montea and ASK. She has also collaborated with a lot of producers like Yuyoyuppe, minato, SignalP and doriko who produced her major debut album, Flower Drops.

sample songs:

solos:
Romeo to Cinderella (doriko original)
Palette (Yuyoyuppe original)
Saihate (Kobayashi Onyx original)
Aitai (SignalP original)


collabs:
Suki Kirai -with Ask- (FernandoP original)
Never -with Montea- (DATEKEN original)
Perfect Crime -with Pokota- (samfree original)
Cendrillon -with Pokota- (SignalP original)


len says

It's not hard to love Hanatan. One note from her and you'll fall in love with her voice. My favorite Hanatan cover is Palette. It was a very difficult song to sing but she has managed to reach the high notes without any effort. She can be compared to most professional singers as every release from Hanatan is never a disappointment.

Comments

[pockymonster25]

I have a few songs from Hanatan as well. The most recent song of hers that I'm looping is "Kokoro x Kokoro Kiseki".

Now that I think of it, I should go check out her cover of "God Knows...", although I wish she covered the metal version instead...

I love her powerful vibrato.

[southerncross]

Kokoro x Kokoro Kiseki is also nice! I was contemplating in recommending it but I just decided to put the more popular ones!

Hanatan could pull off a metal version of "God Knows..."! <3 She's versatile like that.

I agree! *_*

[jakuu]

i really love her voice. it's so beautiful, yet so powerful ... *u* you can really hear the emotions.

thanks for writing the spotlight!

[southerncross]

Maaaae <3 How is life?

That's one of Hanatan's selling points -- her emotional renditions!

And you're welcome! <3

[jakuu]

haha it's going fine 8D

[maidrouge]

I LOVE her cover of rinbu revolution for the 90s anime time last year!

:"D Hanatan is so much love

[southerncross]

That was nice too! <3

Yes, so much love! *_*

[dakedo]

I love HanaPoko's Perfect Crime most ;/////;

THANK YOU FOR THE SPOTLIGHT!

[southerncross]

HI ZYN.

Why do you love it? Is it your theme song? XDDDD

[dakedo]

I DONT EVEN KNOW WHAT THE SONG MEANS OK..../intrigued

[shannaroooooo]

I must agree! Palette is a favorite Hanatan song of mine. ; u ; It's so HIGH and she sang it with so much emotion. I can't stop looping it ever and over!

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE HANAPOKO SPOTLIGHT! *coughcoughJyuuttaronextquestionmarkcoughcoughimkiddingokcoughcough*

[southerncross]

I love Palette. I love the original song and I set the bar high for someone to cover it. I'm glad Hanatan did a great job!

You're welcome! <3 *coughsiwillkeepthatsuggestioninmindcoughs* :D

[shannaroooooo]

I KNOW. She's one of those people that can cover songs better than... well, sometimes the vocaloids themeselves. Or other coveres. Go Hanatan! \o/

*coughyourockmatemayyoubeblessedwithcoughscoughcough/diescough* xDD

[brella]

Hana-tan is definitely one of my favorite singers. I'm listening to Flower Drops and it is blowing me away, haha. Thank you for featuring her!

[southerncross]

You're welcome! Flower Drops is a nice album ne? :)

[hanatandaisuki]

*look at my account xD*
The first song of Hanatan that i heard is Aitai, and i fell in love with her the first moment i heard her voice <3 Just... so beautiful, it makes me melt XD

all her covers are perfect for me <3 She's the best
oh and i got a picture of Hanatan, dunno if it really is her or not, hope some1 could confirm it :)
http://livedoor.2.blogimg.jp/hebiji1019/imgs/0/d/0df676a0.JPG

[southerncross]

Uwaaa Hanatan fan! <3 Nice username! :)

I'm pretty sure that's not Hanatan. She's very private so we never see any photos of her!

[pockymonster25]

It is Hanatan... but not this Hanatan. That is a girl named Hana Satou, a race queen, not to be confused with the teen idol.

"-tan" is a diminutive used by girls/children when they're being cutesy, so it naturally tarento do it all the time. Note also that "Hana" is commonly used as/part of girls' names.

[hanatandaisuki]

thanks for confirming it :) i had about 10% sure this is Hanatan cuz i think this girl's too much more mature than i thought Hanatan would be.

Sad that there's not a single pic of her :( really really want to see her, her voice always makes me melt = v =

[(Anonymous)]

I really would like to see her picture as well, so that I can get a glimpse of how she looks when she sings.

[narutheskynight.wordpress.com]

Whaa-

hanatan is my favorite singer.
cuz she sung beautifully in MISERICORDIA, emotional yet calm..
need more yuyohana..

wow... tat pict :3
dunno, who she is.. but i hope she is hanatan XD.
but... if i'm not wrong, hanatan-name is taken from her cat.. but i'm not sure..

[southerncross]

Yuyohana is a great collab! <3

I checked the blog from where it came from. It doesn't says that Hanatan, the utaite! :)