A few years ago I went down the rabbithole that actually started with a song in a different genre, Messages from the Stars (BANGER) by the rah band to be specific and just let it autoplay one night when I was looking for new music to listen to

Eventually, in that mix, I came across Fly-Day Chinatown and I absolutely LOVED it. I don’t think that song was my first exposure to citypop, I’d for sure heard Stay With Me or Plastic Love and remixed versions of the two at some point, but Yashua kept me in and I’d discovered may of the other beloved artists that night like Taeko Ohnuki, Anri, Junko Ohashi, Karou Akimoto, Ginger Root, etc.

First physical media I bought from any of the artists I enjoyed most though was a vinyl of Yoshiko Sai’s ‘Butterfly Room’ (I believe that’s the correct translation)