One of the highlights of Anime Expo was the concert given by the two singers of Macross Frontier, the 25th anniversary sequel to the original Macross series. The concert featured May’n, who performs the singing voice of the sexy Sheryl Nome, and Megumi Nakashima, the voice of Ranka Lee, and it was a blast. Besides the live stage, the concert hall featured two giant TV screens which showed close-up video of the stars as they sang. This was great, but for one problem: seeing both singers close-up like that made me really want to take them to a good orthodontist. For someone reason, Japanese often have crooked teeth which look strange to Westerners, almost like they’ve got too many teeth for their mouth. These teeth are often fixed with braces as children, although just as often they’re left the way they are since, well, they’re considered to be very cute. Crooked teeth are called yaeba (yah-eh-ba) and as far as I can tell, they function in Japan the way a beauty mark works in the West: a tiny defect in a person that becomes their “charm point.”
I’d have given my eye teeth to take these girls to a good orthodontist.
