Yokoyama Chisa, the voice for Sasami from TENCHI MUYO!, comes to the states to strut her singing voice to the Southern California crowd.  Pioneer releases its first seiyuu idol singer LD, CHISA AND THE HEAVEN AND EARTH BAND — LIVE IN L.A.
The LD contains seven small interviews with Chisa in which she discusses her views on America and L.A. and how different they do things in L.A.  She also remarks on how much fun she had filming the music videos for her two songs: "Pretty Coquettish Bomber" and "Yumemireba Yumemo Yume Janai" (If One Sees Dreams They May Not Be Dreams).
Seventeen tracks in all, two of them are original music videos and the other six are live footage from the Chisa Concert in L.A.  Not only does Chisa sing, but Sharyn Scott, the English singer for many of the TENCHI MUYO! opening and ending songs, belts out a great rendition of "Talent of Love."  Sharyn also sings in duet with Chisa, "I'm a Pioneer," the second series opening song as well as her version of the TENCHI MUYO! TV opening song originally sung by the group Sonia.  Sharyn does a good job and her voice is very strong, but Sonia's version is still better.
I enjoyed watching Chisa sing "Yumemireba Yumemo Yume Janai," the opening song for the PRETTY SAMMY TV series.  She really looks like she is having fun both at the concert and while making the original music videos.  Her other famous Sasami songs, "Pretty Sammy," "The Magic Girl," "Baka," and "Pretty Coquettish Bomber" are also well sung, lively and upbeat.
If the original music videos were in the TENCHI MUYO! or PRETTY SAMMY TV anime theme, I would have enjoyed this a lot more.  The scenes of the magician in the "Yumemireba Yumemo Yume Janai" video have almost nothing to do with PRETTY SAMMY, and the music video makes no sense except that it is about magic.  They should have ditched the wizard and kept Chisa as the main focus. I believe that the music video would have been more enjoyable to anime fans if they had did something related to the anime itself.  Most anime fans were probably looking for Chisa dressed up in a Pretty Sammy outfit instead of the music video that was done.
The other music video of "Pretty Coquettish Bomber" also does not make much sense either.  The whole video is shot in a rundown alley someplace in L.A. with a bunch of hoods threatening Chisa.  Again, I wish the director would have watched about three hours of TENCHI MUYO! or PRETTY SAMMY to be able to get more of that theme in both of these videos.  The director, Leszek Burzynski, does not give me the notion that he has watched any anime in his life.
I think the music videos would have made this LD more appealing if Chisa wore a Pretty Sammy outfit.  It is what the Chisa fans want to see, and it would at least be related somewhat to the anime instead of being so vague.
The concert itself is fine except for the fact that Chisa's wardrobe does not compliment her.  Chisa's two outfits are right out of the 70s, and do not make her look very appealing, especially those elevator shoes!  The second outfit is better, but not the best.  I could see that the audience was probably made up of a few friends and die-hard Chisa fans, no more than thirty people or more.  I was half-expecting it to be held in a large concert hall with hundreds of screaming Chisa fans, but then again, this is not Japan.
All in all, only the real die-hard TENCHI MUYO!, PRETTY SAMMY or Yokoyama Chisa fans will want this LD just to see the cute, pretty Chisa smile and sing her heart out.  Otherwise, pass it up, and buy the PRETTY SAMMY OVA LD instead; it is much funnier.

CHISA AND THE HEAVEN AND EARTH BAND - LIVE IN L.A. Copyright © 1997 Pioneer Entertainment Stereo/CLV $29.95 40 Minutes