It wasn't until my partner beat the second Kingdom Hearts game with the "After the Battle" version of Sanctuary that I had heard of her. I thought "Utada" was one of those strange electronic band names, probably British for some reason. So, yeah, I thought she was white and British and some dude was doing the programming. Never did I imagine "Utada" was a Japanese surname.
I downloaded some of the KH stuff, both the English and Japanese versions of Hikari and Passion and lost my mind when I found out she was Japanese. ("Like Ayumi?" I thought to myself.) Then after looking her up on Wikipedia, I found the "Singles Collection". I haven't been the same since.
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