When I first heard her I got her name along with the song that played (it was either "Sakura Drops" or "Uso Mitaina I Love You"), and I was pretty sure she was Asian right off the start. Thing was, I didn't know Hikaru Utada was the same person who sang "Simple and Clean" in Kingdom Hearts for the longest time; it wasn't until I looked in the credits for the game that I had a huge rude awakening. Somehow, though, I don't think I ever imagined Hikki to be anything but Asian, even when I didn't know it was her singing "Simple and Clean": I knew Kingdom Hearts was a Japanese video game so I was fairly sure the singer of the theme song would be Japanese as well. I just kind of had that motif in my head. I was also really young, so I basically thought that everyone in the world spoke English as a dominant language which was why it didn't seem maligned in my head that a Japanese artist would be singing fluently in English. Somehow, that misconception ended up being the truth, though. That's some precarious logic. x.x

Shuri/Eli