Goodbye ZARD!
zOMG I am sad. Who cares about Odex suing people? The voice behind ZARD, Izumi Sakai, passed away from an accident on Saturday. T_T
ZARD (Izumi Sakai)
Singer Izumi Sakai has died after sustaining head injuries in a fall from the edge of a hospital building in Tokyo, her management agency has announced. Sakai, a member of the popular group ZARD, was 40.
Sakai fell about three meters from the slope outside Keio University Hospital in Tokyo’s Shinjuku-ku, apparently after coming back from a walk. The slope was slippery due to rain.
I blame this on global warming. ;_; I really, really love her song “Dakishimeteite” which was used as an insert song in Tokimeki Memorial 3 for PS2. Just listen to it for yourself:
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May she rest in peace… :( Her beauty voice will live on in my WinAMP playlist. T_T
[ Source: Mainichi Daily News ]
May 30th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
OMG…. no… first ODEX now this?
For someone 40, she’s still pretty hot, and her voice rocks.
Japanese VAs have this touch they add to characters I find hard to notice anywhere else. Its sad a good one dies from a freak accident like this.
May 30th, 2007 at 11:39 pm
I just came back from hearing a compilation of all their works on nico last night. So sad, but the music will forever live on…
May 31st, 2007 at 1:10 am
I heard about it on Saturday and I even put an entire paragraph about her into my academic paper on 2ch. Didn’t bother to write a post about it though.
BTW YOU FAIL TO MENTION WHY SHE WAS IN HOSPITAL.
Cervival cancer…. not cool.
May 31st, 2007 at 1:23 am
I heard it yesterday and I was just as shocked. Even though I haven’t heard much of ZARD, Izumi did made the lyrics of Dragonball GT’s OP1 by Field of View and also made her band’s own cover of it. The song was one of my first few anisons.
Another great loss to the music scene and I offer my deep condolences for fans alike.
May 31st, 2007 at 4:30 am
Your music was amongst the firsts I discovered when I got interested in Japanese music.
Your lyrics were the one that made me truly fall in love with J-pop.
Your music was the one that made me buy all the “Meitantei Conan Best of”s and never regret it.
Your lyrics were the one I enjoyed learning by heart and humming to myself.
From the bottom of my heart, Thank you so much.
Rest in peace Izumi Sakai from Zard.
(I know I’m a total nobody, to her and here in this blog, but I had to express my comittment. Thank you for your patience.)
May 31st, 2007 at 5:07 am
Haven’t gone online for the last five days now first thing I saw after checking my RSS feeds is this… She’s one of my favorite female musicians, RIP T_T
May 31st, 2007 at 7:38 am
Holy shit!! I know ZARD
Well I never really liked her songs but
Damn I knew who she was cause I keep up with the JPOP shit
Damn :((((( It makes me sad when a singer I know dies at such a young age T_T
May 31st, 2007 at 7:43 am
Omg…I heard about it from a friend yesterday….I thought he was kidding….RIP Izumi Sakai, you are gone, but you will never be forgotten…T.T
May 31st, 2007 at 10:45 am
This is quite sad. When I read the title I thought another group was disbanding, but this is a lot worse.
But the from way the accident is worded, it sounds more like a suicide than an accident, IMHO. :S
May 31st, 2007 at 12:13 pm
will forever remember her voice as the one which ended Slamdunk’s episodes…
May 31st, 2007 at 9:24 pm
Sigh, such an unfortunate incident. I really like her songs used in meitantei conan, and her voice is really great.May she rest in peace.
May 31st, 2007 at 11:41 pm
Damn….Haven heard her name……But all the songs you all mention I loved it too…..
Think I should start knowing the artist for Anime songs…..
Anyway, Rest In Peace.
June 1st, 2007 at 6:42 pm
Sad news indeed… Have not heard about her or the group but after this post I will go look more for her music she has a nice voice…
June 2nd, 2007 at 4:16 pm
i am so shoked by her death.
in fact , i am waiting for her new single.and now i still can`t believe she has not in the world any more.
her clear powerful special voice can`t be heard any more
i can say nothing at all.
May she rest in heaven.
i love you forever…
June 2nd, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Omg….Just read the news too. I grew up listening to ZARD…
June 3rd, 2007 at 12:15 pm
An nothing of value was lost.
I never liked her music anyway. Maybe if it were Yukarin or B’z I’d be depressed and sad, but this is nothing to sweat over.
June 4th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Gasp! Although I didn’t really like her songs but I’ve never been so sad since Okazaki Ritsuko passed away a few years back….
Well maybe I’m more depressed about Ritsuko’s death…
June 4th, 2007 at 3:23 pm
What Okazaki Ritsuko died. Shit, I didn’t know that.
June 4th, 2007 at 4:35 pm
Sigh… why do you think there’s no more Ritsuko in the theme songs for UFO Princess Valkyrie Season 3…
“On May 5, 2004, Ritsuko Okazaki died suddenly at the age of 44 from septic shock as a result of septicemia. She was unable to speak any last words, and left her work unfinished.”
I was devastated by that… Went to import her latest and last album…
June 10th, 2007 at 12:37 am
How do you die from a fall of 3 meters? That’s BAD luck.
June 16th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Just today I knew about her death. How foolish I am… ;(
Feeling so sad, but keep on encouraging me that she’s no longer suffer from the sickness and happy on Heaven.
Izumi, we will always love you. Forever.
June 21st, 2007 at 11:51 pm
i remember buying my first few anime song compilations from that pirated company SONMAY… but ZARD was the first few Jpop artistes who initiated me into anime/jpop/manga genre. it makes me feel as though an era has ended. i’m gonna lose all my memories. ;__;
rest in peace, izumi-san.
August 10th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
ZARD is amazing…
She is gone but remained in my heart forever.
Anyway, Rest In Peace.
August 24th, 2008 at 2:39 am
It has already been a year since Izumi-san’s passing away.
I miss her songs, voice and heart. I will never forget her. Never.
September 9th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
owwww!!!!!!!!!!
i really love ZARD/ Izumi Sakai…
i love her songs,,, especially EIEN, FOREVER YOU,and
SHOUJO NO GORO NI MODOTTA MITAI NI…
August 16th, 2009 at 11:38 am
She is beautiful, cute, innocent, & charm….. Well talented songwriter (she wrote more than 150 songs) great singer, & group leader. She graduated from Shoin Women’s College in Atsugi city, Kanagawa. So wonderful…….everybody loved her (not only Japanese) her voice will be with us forever………….
November 30th, 2009 at 5:00 am
翼を広げて this song is nice too
its detective conan movie 12 ending song
enjoy ^^
September 24th, 2010 at 1:23 pm
have a watch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqeaL4V28fo