Utada Hikaru: Tetris Goddess

Posted Aug 12, 2006 at 8:47PM EST by QJ Staff

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Japanese Pop Idol Utada Hikaru has long been associated with video games, especially since she has sung the chart-topping themes for Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts 2 ("Hikari" and "Sanctuary", respectively). Now, she's belting out the signature song for the Japanese TV ads for the Nintendo DS, "Easy Breezy".

However, one thing that most may not know about Utada's closeness with games, is that not only is she involved in the Japanese RPG industry, but she is also a Tetris DS master.

Utada has already been featured in local Japanese shows for her mastery of the game. There have also been numerous occasions wherein she battled other celebrities on-air and trounced them squarely. Utada's prowess in Tetris has been validated when she posted in her blog a shot of her high score, which was a whopping 99,999,999 - a feat that was completed after 16 or 17 hours of play.

Last August 12th though, fans in Tokyo were given the chance to go head-to-head with the idol/Tetris-goddess. Club Nintendo previously announced a raffle where 30 lucky people will get the chance to do Tetris-battle with Utada on the Nintendo DS, while 504 others will get a pair of tickets for Utada's 2006 UNITED tour instead.

The result of the match? Utada-26, Everybody Else-4.

Via Excite

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# heh — Guest 2006-08-13 01:13

Who's the lucky 4 who managed to beat her?

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# the winners — Guest 2006-08-13 01:22

According to Excite, Utada lost her very first two matches. She may have just been warming up at that point. Hehe. She also lost the fifth match, and I'm not so sure which other match she lost....

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# Wooooooow — ssj3fox 2006-08-13 05:33

That...

is...

awesome...

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# Guest 2006-08-13 07:39

This chick continues to surprise me more and more...

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# Guest 2006-08-13 08:45

is there a save feature? cuz how can you play 16 hours straight?!

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# ... — Guest 2006-08-13 11:41

This was reported ages ago.

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# Guest 2006-08-13 15:23

how could it have been reported ages ago? according to the article, the event took place on august 12th Tokyo time...

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