RITHIka's Thoughts on Book 8:

FAIRY IDOL
KANON-PART 1
By Mera Hakamada

This is the story of Kanon,a fourth grader and her friends Kodama and Marika who love singing.

Kanon is right now in space singing!Suddenly someone cries "Help me. Help me,Kanon".It turns out that Kanon was dreaming!The moment she woke up it was she and her friends,Kodama and Marika were to try out for the solo part.Guess What? Kanon got the part!Marika was angry because she wanted the part very badly.When they went out to the grass to play,they heard someone crying for help.When they found out who it was,they almost fainted.Imagine who?It was a Fairy!She needed the harmony of singing to get better!After a little argument,the girls started to sing.The Fairy flew up and recovered."Thank you.Thank you", the Fairy cried in delight.

She introduced herself.She was Princess Alto from the Land of Fairies!She said their energy was the beautiful singing voices from the Earth.But less people were singing and so energy was low.The girls' singing saved her ,but she needed them to travel the whole world,singing for everyone!Then Marika came out with an easier way.That was to become Idols and sing on television.Kanon and Kodama got surprised at her idea.Alto promised to help them with her magic and waved her wand.Then they had new clothes!Then their Super Singing Group was formed!!

That night Alto reported her mother that she found a pure harmony.The same night Kanon asked her mom if she could be an Idol but her mom said,"No".Once she told it to Marika and kodama,they became very sad.They thought of a plan.The next evening,when Kanon's mom reached home,she saw the girls studying.It was her birthday and as a surprise gift, the girls sang a song!! Kanon's mom became happy and she allowed Kanon to go for the Junior Idol audition.The girls passed the audition!!A boy, who was a staff there came and congratulated them.Marika took them to her mom who was a celebrity!She had to conduct a cooking show but her assistants were stuck in the traffic.Alto changed their clothes to assistants' dresses to save the show!

Accidentally,they bumped into Hijiri,who was a strict Judge in Idol Competition.She behaved meanly to Marika's mom,who used to be an Idol.The next day it was the National Audition.Hijiri's daughter Julia was also a participant.She was also mean to the girls.For some reason,the girls couldn't sing.Something squeezed their stomachs,the black mist covered the stage,the lights went out,they sang to their heart but they lost!Julia ruined their show with the help of Sharp,an evil fairy.Alto broke her wand and she couldn't do anything to help the girls.So sad!!

Alto went back to the fairyland to fix her magic wand.The way to the fairyland was through clean water.So she went through the water tub.The girls went to Harajuku, a great place for scouting,to overcome their sadness and to have some fun.There they met a street performer, the staff boy they met at the first audition.The girls sang with him and the crowd applauded for their great singing.After they sang,a man came up and gave them his card,It read,"Yamada Talent Agency..Get scouted with me". Kanon,Marika and Kodama screamed, Is he ...scouting us?"..

PS.Who was that man?Its all in the second volume of this book.I will come up with its summary next time.
PSS.I love music.And I love this book,its lovely characters and the magical fairy princess!