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Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Momal on September 06, 2006, 07:42:22 AM

So how did you all get into all flavours of J-Music?

For myself, I was randomly downloading music from torrent websites and saw Ayumi Hamasaki and was like thats sounds cool and downloaded it. First song I heard was Evolution. Now im addicted to it and everything relating to Japanese music and japanese tv shows :D.


What about the rest of you?

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: donkeykong83 on September 06, 2006, 08:42:20 AM

I heard some ELT songs in my uncle's car and I thought it was pretty darn good. He later asked me to record this Japanese Top 10 on TV. I later found more good songs there. That was like six years ago. The first song I heard was probably Hikki's First Love since it was always on the radio. But I wasn't until I saw Morning Musume's Happy Summer Wedding did I went "OMFG cute gals and catchy songs! More!!". I still feel ashamed to say MM got me into Jpop.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: huggumwuggums on September 06, 2006, 09:32:29 AM

Quote from: donkeykong83

I still feel ashamed to say MM got me into Jpop.

Well I'm not! Yes, you heard it fellas! MM was the reason I got into J-Pop! :pimp:

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: ~Dan~ on September 06, 2006, 07:15:22 PM

Sometime in 2001 I heard "The worlds spinning at 45rpm" by Pizzicato 5 played on a radio show in the UK, I liked it, and downloaded as much of their songs as I could find off Audiogalaxy as well as some Nomiya Maki solo songs.  A friend recommended Hamasaki Ayumi & Kuraki Mai so I downloaded some of their songs, then started checking out some sites and downloading random stuff.  Then I graduated from a 56k modem :evil: to a faster connection.

My new isp had a newsgroup server that actually worked (unlike the previous isp where 95% of the messages got lost) so I checked out the jpop newsgroup.  When I first looked, someone was flooding it with videos and albums by Puffy, and I thought it was the rapper XD and then when I checked back a week later someone was flooding it with Hello! Project stuff and I got curious and downloaded "Aibon dating Gackt (subtitled)" and 3 or 4 of Ayaka's English Lessons and 2 Gomaki Penguin clips (that I later found out were from H!M).  I was intrigued.  It was weird.  Just WTF is this all about?

Then I downloaded a whole bunch of Mini Moni pv's, then some Morning Musume pv's, then a Maki graduation special (it was a huge video but I had nothing else to download so I decided to download it), and then one day for the first time ever on the newsgroup someone uploaded a Hello! Morning, the 2002.10.06 episode, and I was intrigued, what was this show?, and I decided to download it, and once I watched it I was hooked.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: meowchi on September 06, 2006, 07:25:32 PM

I think my 1st encounter with Jmusic was Ayumi Hamasaki back in ... 98? or 99, from a game called Thousand Hearts.. After that I got into KPOP music, but my mom got mad at me (Since I hardly spoke Japanese and I was in the process of learning Korean), so I switched to Japanese music.
 
The 1st Morning Musume PV I've ever seen was Renai Revolution, and I thought; that is a LOT of Japanese girls! The 1st member I liked was Hitomi Yoshizawa.. Can't believe I remember all this.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Yuuyami on September 07, 2006, 03:00:26 AM

For me, it was anime music that got me into japanese music, haha. First japanese song I heard was Fukai Mori by Do As Infinity courtesy of Inuyasha, and then Dearest by Ayumi Hamasaki. So I got obsessed with downloading Ayumi Hamasaki stuff for awhile (Got almost all of her PVs), and then got into J-rock and Visual Kei (Gackt <3 Dir en Grey <3, Miyavi <3 ) and finally, settled down in H!P :L_____

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: zaius on September 07, 2006, 04:44:42 AM

my first j-music experience i remember was back in the late 80's while i was living there and got hooked on BOOWY's IMAGE DOWN. it didn't really escalate until the mid to late 90's though when i started listening to music more and more during my highschool years. i had a friend i stayed in touch with still in japan and she'd send me stuff. in the mid 90's it was The Yellow Monkey, East End(x Yuri), and The Pillows but grew into groups like BuriGuri and Kick the Can Crew by 1998-99 which is when Morning Musume also worked it's way into my regular playlists.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Aioros on September 07, 2006, 05:36:46 AM

Anime got me hooked to J-Music. When I searched for the songs in Kazaa, the name of artist(s) who performed them end up as the results. Names like L'arc en Ciel, Zone, Ayumi Hamasaki, etc. pop up so I also tried to DL songs from the said artists. :)

Also when I heard and saw Hikaru Utada's video for Automatic, I knew I was hooked to J-music.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: maliciel on September 07, 2006, 07:38:36 AM

First J-pop listen ever was SPEED. I quite liked it, but didn't like like it. After that I was in and out, sometimes english, sometimes japanese. Then a friend made me watch a video of MM (I knew who they were, heard the peace before, etc) and I was hooked.

As for J-rock, I only started getting into it recently. Think it was when I downloaded some Acid Mothers Temple from JPM. :lol:

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: MyDearYossi on September 07, 2006, 09:19:26 AM

It happend when Final Fantasy X came out. I liked that song, Suteki da ne (or somehing...) Then I found a forum of Inuyasha. People were talking about it's music and I thought that it would be interesting to hear those songs. I found place where I downloaded those songs. I think the first was something by BoA (don't remember the name just now...:evil: ). Then came Every Little Thing's Ai no Uta, V6's I Want to Change the World and of course Ayu's No More Words. In some point I started to listen to Mai Kuraki, but I think her older songs are better than her latest... Hikki has been one of my favorites after I heard her Simple&Clean. And MoMusu is one one of the favorites too. I started to like them right after I saw Mr. Moonlight PV. My newest favorite Jpop artist is Ayaka whose first album I'm waiting for:)
I guess this is how everything happened:D

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Rakko on September 07, 2006, 09:28:37 AM

Easy. Because I was studying Japanese and needed all forms of exposure.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Momal on September 07, 2006, 02:59:34 PM

Interesting... Did you like j-music at first ? and grew to like it or just love at first sight ^^?

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Cookie on September 07, 2006, 03:17:49 PM

One day I was looking for something to watch on t.v, and I stumbled upon this dorama where I found the main guy to be totally HOT! Heyx3 used to air in that channel but not anymore. There was this performance by BoA, and I thought, "wow, her song is catchy." After her performance the H!P 2003 shuffles performed and I was like "WTF! HAHAHAHA" But after that I found myself searching for them on the internet and downloading some music samples from them..and now that's why I'm here today. LOL!

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Kally on September 08, 2006, 05:13:32 AM

My friend and I were a tiny bit into anime, we didn't know much about the scene at all, but we went to an anime convention. And were completely lost. Eventually we found our way down into the karaoke room, and we heard some girls perform a Malice Mizer song.

When I got home, I looked up that song, and it went from there. People started suggesting Ayumi Hamasaki and others to me, and I got completely into the Jpop world. ^-^

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Minniechii on September 08, 2006, 04:20:00 PM

I don't exacily know when, cuz you can say that i grew up with japanese music and anime music all around me >_< my sister who is 10 years older than me XD was then one who started it all..

It happens even now that i hear a song from a old anime and i'm like: "I've heard this before O.O" and my sister says that of course you do i loved that song 4 years ago(or something like that)...
The first song i heard of Mo-musu was Koi no Dance Site.(THAT i remember)

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Loopy on September 10, 2006, 09:08:15 PM

Played lots of RPGs which frequented Jpop songs.  That I was exposed to anime at a young age helped too.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: StreakInTheSky on September 11, 2006, 12:02:56 AM

I liked some music from anime but never really got into J-music. Momusu got me into jpop(I was also got into like Punk/Hardcore shit like a year before). Though following momusu and jpop on a dail-up modem and practically no income was becoming quite difficult(and most of my money was going into buying western rock albums). The only japanese artists I actually followed were the works of Tsunku, Zone, and Do As Infinity. Luckily I got broadband since 2 out of 3 of those groups are now disbanded. Now I'm pretty much getting into new groups and artists all the time.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: inifinity on September 11, 2006, 01:40:42 AM

Im relatively new to Japanese music the most I have listened to is MOVE's new CD and some BoA. Well the rest is obviously anime theme songs. Are there any good recommendations out there that you can introduce to a newbie like me?

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: TydusArandor on September 11, 2006, 02:51:54 AM

Started out with anime. It was like, hmm, this artist sounds good in this (anime) song, let's go download some more. I don't think I ever really got into anything other than anime and j-pop anyway :\.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: thelastangel on September 11, 2006, 06:38:59 AM

Like a lot of people here it started with Anime. When you have seen 26+ episodes of a series and head the Opening and Closing themes multiple times you start to develop a taste for the music. ;)
 
For me is was the Opening to NGE :heart: (Cruel Angel's Thesis), Chobits, Witch Hunter Robin, Scrapped Princess, and many others that got me to like Japanese music styles.
 
Then I saw some Japanese TV ads featuring Noriko Sakai and I was blown away by her hotness. So I found some of her music on the net and slowly started listening to J-POP.
 
Now I am hooked and not ashamed to say that I am a big fan of MoMusu as well as most of the stuff that has been produced from H!P. There is a lot of great talent and history in H!P and I really believe that that hard work and effort of these girls deserves recognition and much respect. 8-)

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: MurasakiNeko on September 11, 2006, 07:55:38 AM

I liked the japanese culture when i was small, i watched anime which was based in japan, and i just got enthrawled with the japanese music scene when i downlaoded my first japanese song: Zankoku na Tenshi no Teeze

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: lettuceapple on September 14, 2006, 05:51:35 AM

My cousin bought a Do As Infinity cd. That's how I got into jmusic.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: inifinity on September 14, 2006, 07:51:38 AM

LOL I just finished watching Sailor Moon Live Action! The songs in that are very catchy! Escpecially Cest Le Vie and Romance (Baby Baby)! Komatsu Ayaka rocks!

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: BX_LeMans on September 14, 2006, 11:39:58 AM

I saw on TV Bubblegum Crisis, japanese with german subtitles, it came after midnight. The songs were genious, never heard that. So I searched in the Net. I needed more than a year to get the albums together. That was around 97-99? Don't know...
The german dubbed series like Sailormoon were with all new music, part only translated(bad translated) part with this terrible technostyle(I hate this!)

Later I downloaded more J-Pop ... its still hard to get here, buying impossible, if you're not rich and can import albums and singles.

This time nearly 50% of my collection is japanese, the rest is most metal, lot of rock and some rap...

@infinity : If you like it, try this : klick or die! (http://sailormusic.net/tracks/pgsm.html)

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: fudog on September 15, 2006, 05:44:52 PM

i was a member of leejinshrine forums and the founder Knov1 would post some random vids of some japanese talent such as hitomi s., MM, melody, koda kumi, shiori takei... i was first heavy into kpop but i think my love affair with kpop is beginning to flounder a bit... now i download all sorts of music when i have the chance... my most favorite jpop song is you by koda kumi

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: TwYsTeD on September 21, 2006, 11:01:51 PM

with me it started with hong kong films in the 80's i liked this one song in a movie so i had to find out who sang it so when i found out i went to china town in L.A. bought the tape and then i started to listen to canto pop then it went to j-pop and eventually k-pop

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Kyobu on September 21, 2006, 11:05:21 PM

A friend linked me to Aya Ueto - Kaze (no idea how he got into it though) I loved it.  I did a little research, found out about Mika Nakashima, then being such a big fan of Mika and Aya I was opened to the world of J-Music.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Saburo on September 22, 2006, 12:46:32 AM

My grandfather was nisei and Hawaii used to be abound in J-stuff: TV, music, movies, etc.  All I used to listen to in my youth was J-pop.  I "grew" out of it in my teens but returned to the fold in the mid-90s cause English stuff, to paraphrase The Smiths, said nothing to me anymore.  

A friend lent me a tape of a J-Pop idol group (CoCo) his friend was listening to and it was all I needed to get back into the fold.  Another factor in learning new stuff was this crazy new fad called karaoke -- I REALLY wanted to learn new songs and you can't sing your grandpa's favorites all the time without seeming unhip.

Man, those were the days before mp3 downloads...

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: iluvyossie on October 01, 2006, 10:34:27 AM

first, i was a fan of Japan(food culture etc) so i thought y not listen to its music also?

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: sumper on October 07, 2006, 05:00:25 PM

this is my first post here!  i got into jpop by accident.  i found ayumi hamasaki fly high video on youtube and after that i was hooked!  now i like jpop, jrock, regular japanese music and animes!!!!  i'm glad to be here!!!  bye.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: A1 on October 07, 2006, 10:51:28 PM

Some of the music from different anime series helped my curiosity. It wasn't until I discover Do As Infinity from a mp3 rotation site, is when everything started popping.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: SomethingWild on November 15, 2006, 05:45:14 PM

I was bored with the music/bands I knew, so I decided to download as much Jpop as I could. Only a few bands survived.. Aikawa Nanase was the first one I really got into. Aya ueto is very nice, I listen to her a lot.. very relaxing. At the moment I really dig every little thing.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: aedon on November 15, 2006, 08:58:34 PM

Quote from: BarrieV;235767

I was bored with the music/bands I knew, so I decided to download as much Jpop as I could. Only a few bands survived.. Aikawa Nanase was the first one I really for into. Aya ueto is very nice, I listen to her a lot.. very relaxing. At the moment I really dig every little thing.

NANASE PWNZ! :pen_whirl: 7 seven is like the best cd I own <3

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Rina the Robot on November 15, 2006, 10:59:22 PM

At the time, I was really into anime, so I used to listen to a lot of opening themes and such. Through that, I was introduced to Ayumi Hamasaki and BoA and things just took off from there!

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Nouciel on November 15, 2006, 11:33:12 PM

Because of the anime. Card Captor Sakura did it for me. One of the endings, Purachina, is sung by Maaya Sakamoto, I was amazed by the notes she could hit, so I did some search @ the internet, found something about Hamasaki Ayumi, watched the M PV, and I was WOAH gotta watch more of this stuff!

That was around late 2000. Then in 2001, I found the existence of Morning Musume because of The Peace PV. Sakamoto and Hamasaki introduced me to Jmusic, Morning Musume made me an addict XD

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: blp on November 16, 2006, 02:25:52 AM

Anime was the reason for me too, I really loved Maaya Sakamoto songs, Kenji Kawai, Yoko Kanno and Yuki Kajiura and from there I started get into non-anime Japanese music. Even Tsunku and Tanpopo did anime theme songs way back...

I think recently anime is really responsible for introducing Japanese pop to Western audiences.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Loser87 on November 16, 2006, 04:04:11 AM

I got into j-pop by watching full metal alchemist. o_o...

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: raspberrygashes on November 17, 2006, 01:18:42 AM

At first I saw some live's of BoA's, and then I kind of just forgot about her. Then one of my sister's sent me Ayu's evolution PV and Boys & Girls PV. Now it's all I listen to :P

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: tetsu on November 17, 2006, 04:23:27 PM

It all started with matsu takako's sakura no ame song.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: DashReiza on November 18, 2006, 06:11:54 AM

I don't remember when I got into J-music....... I've been listening to it for a very long time now...Hmmm I think the first J-song I EVER heard was
"Jajauma ni sasenaide" (Don't make me a shrew) - Nishio Etsuko from Ranma 1/2 and that's when I was REALLY young...jeez... I <3 Ranma, twas my first manga/anime ever :baa60776:

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Linus on November 18, 2006, 09:21:30 PM

Reading an anime magazine, found out Koi no Dance site PV on the CD coming with the magazine. Since then, I've discovered the J-Music world :D

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: surezal on November 29, 2006, 01:54:24 AM

Anime opening/ending themes, after that came a AMV with 'Evolution' of Hamasaki Ayumi and I was sold...

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Shibo on December 01, 2006, 06:09:36 AM

At the risk of sounding like a broken record.. It all started with anime for me. "Cruel Angel's Thesis" from Evangelion, "Yakusoku Na Iranai" from Escaflowne, "Party Night" from Di Gi Charat.. The original Bubblegum Crisis music, all those fantastic op and ed themes from Card Captor Sakura.. I was a napster fiend, trying to get as much stuff as possible. I grabbed a few Ayumi Hamasaki songs as well, some great remixes of "Evolution", "Boys and Girls", and "Trauma". My wife bought me Ayu's first 2 CD's, but I didn't listen to much else for many years. I began listening to Pizzicato Five later, and Kahimi Karie. My current job has me in the car ALL the time, travelling, and I've really stopped watching anime. I can just never find the time.. It kills me that this is happening, but I've started listening to a ton of jpop in my car to make up for it. I joined an Ayumi Hamasaki forum earlier this year, and discovered Otsuka Ai. I've played her albums to death and have been branching out, looking for other artists that I might enjoy. I found BoA, and W.. From W, I found Mini Moni and then Morning Musume. I came to this forum to learn more about Hello! Project and to hopefully make some friends who will help me discover more new artists. A friend from the Ayu forums helped me discover Mika Nakashima and Yukawa Shione, so hopefully people here will be equally generous. ^_^

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: ferrar1 on December 01, 2006, 06:51:51 AM

SPEED's white love. It not only brought me but the whole of Singapore into the j-pop world. I'm still thanking the TV station's producers (though obsolete now) for deciding to play that 4 min PV.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: bakamile on December 06, 2006, 11:18:36 PM

I started ten years ago together with watching anime. Evangelion had some really great songs and BGM. Shortly after I was hooked on various artists like ELT, Utada Hikaru, Brilliant green... And then in 2000 I was working on one L'arc'en'ciel PV. That was really cool. Ever since then I'm only listening to all kinds of J-music.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: chera on December 06, 2006, 11:49:44 PM

There was this secretary at my old company who was really cute.  One day in the pantry I told her that I went to a used book stall over the weekend and found a 30 year old manual on how to survive a nuclear war.  She said to me, "Wouldn't it be better to die after a nuclear war?  That's the impression I got from watching Barefoot Gen."  It turns out that we both liked anime, but she hadn't watched Ghost in the Shell.  So I loaned it to her, and she loaned me L'arc en Ciel's ark.  We both loved each other's recommendations.  Later, she introduced me to Shiina Ringo, which I loved, and Dir en Grey, which I was so-so with.  The relationship never really worked out, but her music recommendations were really influential to me.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Marco Malvado on December 07, 2006, 07:54:20 PM

Okay, let's get one thing out of the way up front: I'M OLD. Like really fucking old. That said, I first got into Japanese music in the '80s. Along with a lot of hardcore punk bands from Japan (GISM, The Stalin, Garlic Boys...), I listened to quite a bit of this lady:

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^ That's Jun Togawa, by the way (http://youtube.com/results?search_query=jun+togawa). ^

Japanese stuff has always been scattered in among the rest of the eclectic crap I annoy and confuse my friends and family with (bombastic, over-produced Swedish pop; anything with yodelling, accordions or whistling; Toy Dolls...). It was the birth of Morning Musume, though, that cranked my love of Japanese pop music up to the level of obsession. Here's an accurate portrait of my face the first time I saw a MoMusu video: :shock:

It was love at first site and I've been devouring everything the H!P stable cranks out ever since. Can't tell you all how nice it was to discover JPH!P. I'm glad to be part of the tribe.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: limitbreaker02 on December 08, 2006, 07:16:20 PM

Thousand Arms (for PS1) > Ayumi Hamasaki > Morning Musume > ???? > PROFIT!

Actually after Morning Musume...just went on from there...

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: s_leonhart on January 25, 2007, 06:32:36 AM

i got into j-music pretty much influnce from the game i played. yeah i got to know Koda Kumi when she sang the theme song "1000 no kotoba" for FFX-2. went to check out her other songs then soon after discover other artist.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Kei on January 25, 2007, 06:53:20 AM

My cousin was into it and she gave me some L'Arc CDs.

Yeaaaaaaaaah.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: arun.yothin on January 25, 2007, 06:58:31 AM

I was kind of into anime a few years ago. I liked some of the themes dongs and found out that some were done by actual artists, but it wasn't until I heard Koda Kumi in FFX-2 that I actually started searching for other J-artists. I had a hard time finding stuff, but some new friends hooked me up with a bunch of songs and links to trackers. Then I just started downloading random stuff.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: ferrar1 on January 25, 2007, 07:21:21 AM

I got onto this bandwagon through SPEED, the all time greatest girl band imo. Their music was so new and their voice was so fresh that it caught me instantly.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: browngom on January 25, 2007, 07:33:45 AM

ellegarden. it was a nice transition cuz i always loved poprock, and they sing in both japanese and english.

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: aznanimedude on January 25, 2007, 04:28:16 PM

oh really ellegarden eh?

wel i got into it cuz of this person annoying me and making me listen to this one song real emotion by kumi koda, FFX-2, i liked it so i wanted more, so i looked around found some awesome groups n artists and the rest is history

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: sweet bunny:) on January 26, 2007, 11:42:05 PM

I got into J-music because i watched Hana Yori Dango..I really liked the Drama and also i like the OST "Wish" from Arashi and "Planetarium" from dearest Ai...
And thats how i got into the JE and BoA and stuff...:inlove:

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Drago White on January 27, 2007, 09:37:15 AM

I got into J-music in first place when I began to watch tokusatsu (there was really beautiful and adrenal music), then I asked my friend (who listen J-Pop & J-Rock), that I want to listen Ayumi Hamasaki (cause when I arrive to this forum I saw her thread and a lot of posts, that glorify her, in it). He gave me some of her songs along with the "Single Collection" of Utada Hikaru (which I loved more than Ayumi's songs - I beg your pardon, all of Ayumi Hamasaki fans).

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: aznkidd on January 27, 2007, 10:30:12 PM

datte boku wa nihonjin dakara

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: burndtjamb on February 02, 2007, 03:50:25 AM

i've known about j-pop from watching all kinds of animes when i was younger...
but i really got into it a few years back, after a co-worker convinced me to listen to L'arc~En~Ciel's Smile CD...  got hooked and from there, got obsessed into discovering more japanese music by way of torrent sites like jpopsuki and so i moved on to other bands like Spitz, Mr. Children, Toe, Sambomaster... currently loving: PolyABC, Melting Holidays, A Band Apart, Advantage Lucy and Paris Match

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: animefanatic002 on February 07, 2007, 11:21:17 PM

i got into japanese music when i used to live in asia. and it was through anime ^^

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Misha on February 08, 2007, 06:14:51 AM

I know and start listening to j-rock after i started watching anime and also 1 webmaster on some particular forum uploaded nice ones as recommendations. I like the singer called YUI. Got interested in her song from bleach Rolling Star

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: fullyinsane on February 09, 2007, 02:53:24 AM

...simple...im interested to anime opening and ending songs..then start searching in the internet....the first collection i have that time is ayumi hamasaki discography....

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: S+S on February 09, 2007, 08:20:56 PM

I started listening thanks to the anime ops-endings... Series like Rurouni Kenshin who have so much bands songs of J-Music... The very first song of J-music I remember right now I first listened.. was Make up! - Pegasus Fantasy, the intro of Saint seiya movies (lucky that they no changed the op of the movies here in Mexico :pen_clap: ) Later, I started to find the bands in the internet to listen the music of them and search for more... and more... and more.... :ONfarofflook:

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: BigDnm01 on February 11, 2007, 02:47:52 AM

Like most people here, i first got into jpop through anime.  since i was born and raised abroad (USA), it's not likely that i find jpop stuff alot.  But by watching the great anime, i eventually became exposed to jpop and j-related stuff.  When watching an anime and hearing the music, i got hooked and try to find the songs on the net. then it moved on to the artist itself and their works, not just the one attached to anime.  then checking out other artists, even not relating to anime.  and finally to general j-music itself.  U know the trail, don't u?  Due to the "trail" that i not only find jpop, but i explored other j-music genre as well.  and also got into the general j-media, jdorama and movies, as well as the theme song that comes with it.

From J-music, i also got love love the Japanese culture in general.  One of my dream is to visit japan, possibly even lived there for a while.  But not only that, if u gotta know, i'm been i tech lover, intrigued and obessed with technology and electronics. And who would know but that Japan, not only the motherland of anime and manga, but also the country with the most high tech stuff in the entire world. including cars and automobiles, of which i'm also a huge fan of (toyota, nissan, honda, mazda just to name a few).

Other than the modern stuff (by which i mean the techs, cars, anime/manga,etc.) i also became interested in the history and culture or japan itself, like reading stuff on the samurai, shogun and the japanese martial arts, the bushido, the tea ceremony, cherry blossom, etc.  So since japan offers all this, i would naturally be sucked into this culture.  

Yes, call me a japanophile if u must, a otaku even.  But it's not uncommon, since the Japanese culture and the J-media had alot of infuences on the world.

But just to be clear, i'm not only interest in j-stuff.  I also like kpop and chinese pop since i've grown up with my family watching chinese movies and shows as well as listening to chinese pop. but that's beside the point.  

Oh yah, i forgot to mention my fav artists.  first and foremost, Morning Musume have got to be mention, same as most of the people here, they and the entire Hello! Project have a profound impact on my love of J-stuff.  I first heard of them back in 04 when i saw the love machine pv on the net. then i listen to several of their song like i wish, renai revolution 21, the peace and mr. moonlight.  But for some reason i forgot about them.  then i got sucked into their world again 2 years later (in 2006) on one summer day when i accidently browse through Youtube into the jpop sections.  their addictive u know.  Aside from them, i listen to mostly avex artists like ayumi hamasaki, do as infinity, ELT, etc.  since they're had songs in Inuyasha, the anime with one of the best OST around.  Now, since i love naruto and bleach, I listen to alot of sony artists like Orange Range , YUI, and even the recent single "Baby it's you" by JUNE, a new artist under sony.  in addition, i also like several JE music, Johnny's Entertainment ( yah i admit it, even though i'm a guy), mostly kinki kids and smap, but once in a while V6 ( around the world, part of inuyasha), tokio and several arashi.  But u know, i mainly checked out their shows than actually listen to their music, since they're funny on their show, ex. SMAPXSMAP, Nakai's Utaban, Kinki's Domoto Kyoudai.

Although i mainly listen to anime theme song and H!P songs, I am in no way completely dominated by them (well...maybe Morning Musume, just maybe....), i listen to many other artists too. and am always looking for new stuff.  that's oughta be good for now.........sorry for rambling on, it's just when u find someone with common interests, u tend to talk alot.  hehe...

Title: How did you get into J-Music?
Post by: Takumi 86 on February 12, 2007, 06:26:44 PM

When i first time listening to L'Arc~en~Ciel - Stay Away & some GLAY song, i began to like their song pretty much but then again after few year when i started to listening to some Eurobeat song, i seem began to fade away from them. Only some J-Pop Music i still liked - Morning musume, Hinoi Team, and HandMC was one of them.  :)

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Post by: hibachifinal on February 13, 2007, 04:15:47 AM

a friend of mine gave me a cali=gari CD way back in grade school.

then poof, i was into VK.... then eventually Jpop

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Post by: desidarko on February 13, 2007, 05:00:54 AM

i guess it wass through anime , watching the intros and endigns hearing thsoe songs , they sound so good , so i started doing a little research and foudn the japan wolrd of music , and i was amazed by the many awesoem artists and musicians there... there are many who are waay better then anything over at the regular stream of music for the west....

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Post by: Silverglade on February 13, 2007, 05:08:13 AM

I posted this on another forum so I just copied/pasted it for this thread since it answers this very question.

It all started when I heard "tokyo smiling" on the net as a soundtrack to a short video based on some video game. I immediately had to know who sang that song.. I had never heard such a style like that before. I found out it was by a group called "capsule", and the style was called "Shibuya-kei". I looked further, and discovered some more of their songs. That was it. I bought every album twice. One set for the car, one for home and to share. I could not listen to anything else... for at least a full year, not kidding. It was as if I had discovered some new world I never new existed and it made everything I used to enjoy seem bland and old-hat. Just a phase, right? Not quite. I could talk for days about things I like about capsule but I will move on...

From there, I asked around for advice from the j-pop message boards I began to join, "what else do you think a capsule fan would like?", because I did not know of any other artists and I wanted to discover again. From there, I learned about and now also adore: Perfume, YUKI, ACO, Meg, Nagisa Cosmetic, Supercar, Miki Furukawa, Coltemonikha and some Ayumi Hamasaki. Even some Mini Moni for good measure.

I maintain some stuff on the net dedicated to some of these artists, capsule in particular. I think about j-music all day, surf the net for news on my favorites, and so on. I cannot fully understand Japanese but it makes no difference. Most of my online active website spots are Stage6 and Perfume City, also checking for updates at several other news sites.

I love discovering new things and each discovery leads to another.

Anyway, sorry for the long post.  - silver

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Post by: ushi on February 13, 2007, 06:16:06 PM

I was  a huge Japanese prowrestling and fighting/kickboxing fan in the early 90s and I followed most of the shows. I got engaged to a Japanese in the mid 90s who was into music and she turned me onto Puffy and Matsuda Seiko around 1996... so it slowly progressed from there but in 1999-2000 I just went totally insane.

Ayu's stuff put me over the top in '99.

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Post by: robber on February 13, 2007, 11:17:59 PM

oh... i got into J-Music with a magazine for Anime/Manga...
there was a topic called J-Culture and sometimes in it were Band Infos: for example Dir En Grey....
Now I'm addicted in JRock/Jpop....
 more JRock but sometimes I listen to Pop too.....
 I love the voices and the way the musicians make the music melodic!!! :D

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Post by: patkje on February 15, 2007, 04:30:48 PM

It must have been some anime opning that got me into j-music. Think it was the first opening to Bleach, Asterisk by Orange Range.

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Post by: redux on February 15, 2007, 04:34:50 PM

I first got into it thanks to Ayu's "I am..." album, which is still probably my favourite album of all time. That was in 2002 I do believe, though to be fair I didn't actually listen to much even at that point, the way I actually got fully into it was pretty weird. I was just spending some time browsing through some random guitar tabs on the Internet and I got onto some Japanese stuff, one band that caught my attnetion was Puffy, I had a quick look on eBay and someone was selling 4 albums for £12 so I thought I might as well give 'em a go for that price. That was in 2003/4, not sure which, but ever since then I've got more and more into JMusic. In fact I heard Momosu around the same time and absoloutely hated them...how times have changed.

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Post by: dat on February 15, 2007, 04:37:07 PM

i thinks it anime ,many anime has good soundtrack ,after long stories i search for other japan song ,i found day after tomorrow - starry heaven and lost angel ,so that is ,since then ,all my mp3 at my pc is jpop songs 96% :)

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Post by: robber on February 15, 2007, 07:42:55 PM

i think it's funny that many people get into JMusic by Animes!

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Post by: num2son on February 15, 2007, 08:24:47 PM

Quote from: robber;309518

i think it's funny that many people get into JMusic by Animes!

I agree, LOL, Thats how I first heard J-Music.

But i got hooked after a friend kept sending me youtube videos of morning musume.

And with "Asian Kung-Fu Generation" I kept on watching the Loop & Loop video over and over on my cable on demand feature.

If anyone has the anime network could watch more J-Music videos.

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Post by: dcrux on February 16, 2007, 06:09:52 AM

I got into JPop through watching Hey!Hey!Hey! on AZN Television on cable (former International Channel).

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Post by: jr_superman21 on February 16, 2007, 07:50:08 AM

Same here got into it coz of anime songs then my friends have a lot of it so I just borrow it from him.

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Post by: Julayu on February 18, 2007, 04:06:16 PM

I got into Jpop thanks to Thai pop. :)
A thai friend of I told me to listen to thai superstar Tata Young, and then, surfing on the internet, I found a site with lotta asian stars, that's how I first got into Ayu and Morning Musume. :)

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Post by: nox_xie on February 19, 2007, 01:54:25 PM

i'm started listening to j-song first by influent - cousin from singapore.. she let me hear hikaru utada  album -> then got addicted to it.. later find mp3s from shop.. started listening to it.. all genre.. not specific..
now, listen to anime or drama then search the song from net..

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Post by: daraec on February 22, 2007, 04:49:56 AM

I start whit j-music by anime, search for openings and endings, and for some magazines i found some samples of some groups like morning Musume, and gackt.....

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Post by: modesta107 on February 22, 2007, 05:21:38 AM

Morning Musume. They and the rest of the HP is the only Jpop I like. I do kinda like ayumi hamasaki, and 1 song of BoA's.

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Post by: storyboard on March 07, 2007, 01:19:22 AM

First got into J-Music through my brother because he listened to X-Japan. I was curious to what it was and i liked it. Besides that, sadly anime got me into j-music XD. First it was Initial D which got me into the group MOVE, and from there my likings of J-music grew Heh.

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Post by: darkzorb on March 07, 2007, 07:46:53 AM

I actually think this is pretty common, but I started my liking of J-Music from playing lots and lots of DDR when I first started High School.

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Post by: aznanimedude on March 07, 2007, 10:36:17 PM

my cousin shoving it down my throat and forcing me to like it....heavily overexaggerated tho XD
actually he showed me a PV of real emotion by Kumi Koda...after i finished staring at her i looked up more j-pop artists like ayumi hamasaki and others...then shortly after i listened to H!P for a LONG WHILE...now i've moved onto j-rock XD...yeah that's basically me in a nutshell :P

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Post by: lemonado on March 08, 2007, 06:42:45 AM

First japanese song I ever heard was X Japan's Tears.. I remember listening to that song everyday countless number of times.. So much passion when Toshi sings it.. Now I also listen to all types of J-pop.. I like Ayumi :heart:

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Post by: RL6 on March 11, 2007, 01:58:54 AM

For me, Dragonball Z

Dragonbal Z lend to an interest in anime, the interest lead me to initial d, and that lead me to move, which got me into j-pop and j-rock.

then came beatmania =)

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Post by: burichu on March 15, 2007, 01:38:14 PM

Sailor Moon when I was 10．Ai no Senshi. ’Nuff said.

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Post by: NAzu on March 18, 2007, 12:09:26 AM

My big brother listened Ayumi Hamasaki and ELT and I thought like "this sounds intresting" and later when I got my own comp I started listening more and more japanese and korean music. Now all music I have is pretty much japanese and korean rock and pop.

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Post by: DrunkenChi on March 18, 2007, 02:18:38 AM

I'm a big fan of the Fatal Frame series, and Amano Tsukiko did the theme songs for two and three. I got into it from there.

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Post by: BigDnm01 on March 18, 2007, 03:57:45 AM

same here man, most of my computer contain j-music,k-music, and chinese music.  in fact i have 150gb of stuffs. although i don't have a lot of different one, most of it contains morning musume(which tooks up like 134gb) , anime songs, and selected artists that i've been listening to,  i wanna check out other artists and songs that i've never heard before but for some unknown reasons, i just don't.  i know i've been missing out on some good ones. that's why i've taken some time and listen to whatever it is i find and see if i like it or not.

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Post by: okayasu on March 18, 2007, 07:07:16 AM

TO be really honest..i was never too keen on jap music..i thought..well if u cant' understand it..then you can't really enjoy it..cuz you won't know the deeper meaning of the songs..
but damn!..i feel madly in love with gackt when i heard his amazing voice!..even when i don't understand a word he is singing..but i can't help feeling amazed with his voice....an that's when it started...my love for jap music..lol

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Post by: nkcac on March 19, 2007, 09:48:18 PM

through anime i believe... i loved some ed or op to a series and searched for the song and eventually got into different singers and groups, and then i started liking a lot of asian music^^

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Post by: BoAayu on March 21, 2007, 12:48:06 AM

I started out by watching Inuyasha. The ED - was Ayumi Hamasaki "Dearest". So from there I started to get hooked on j-pop and a variety of other singers/groups. Then I got hooked. And became really obsessed with it. Also k-pop and c-pop? Lol

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Post by: cck on March 21, 2007, 01:05:34 AM

That was many, many years ago (less than 10 years). When I saw BoA first album "Listen to my heart", I had this thinking of her being famous in her homeland or even the whole Asia, at a very young age (14 years old or so). With a powerful voice and an innocent face, I believe I make a right choice of deciding her as my J-pop idol/singer.

From her No. 1 fan. :inlove:

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Post by: sukiyanen on March 21, 2007, 06:09:29 AM

I started to listen J-POP from Johnny's Jr.
first i like them a lots esp. KAT-TUN
but now my KAT-TUN fandom is ↓↓

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Post by: lopkiu on March 21, 2007, 09:30:36 PM

I start to listen to jap music first off from the anime, then i just follow the artist for awhile until i discover someone better:
so far i am sticking myself with Mika nakashima, and YUI

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Post by: Pen-Pen on April 08, 2007, 02:22:28 PM

I watched anime from a young age thanks to a friend of mine at the local Hongwanji/Japanese language school (it's pretty strange that I attended since I'm not Japanese, but that's my crazy mom for you). So I guess I inevitably heard some Japanese music that way. My awesome friend Sean Westfall lent me some second or third generation fansubs of Guyver and some Gundam, if I remember correctly. The shit was on VHS and everything.

But more importantly was when my brother started attending high school. Some of his friends were heavy into anime/J-pop/DDR/Japan in general and they lent him a SPEED CD and some mix CDs with a bunch of groups, as well as a huge sack of fansubbed anime. If I remember correctly, they even showed him Morning Musume with Koi no Dance Site and Happy Summer Wedding, since those songs just came out back then LOL. Got hooked on SPEED big time, surprisingly, since I never really listened to any music before and didn't own any music of my own. Then my brother and I both started getting into J-Rock, and that's what I ended up listening to for the longest time.

Then as Laruku and Luna Sea started to slow their activities/disband I started listening to a lot of MoMusu after looking at their pics for a while. After that pretty much all I listen to is J-Pop now... hah. Also started getting into K-Pop after watching a few K-Dramas and noticing how cute the girls were.

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Post by: doinkies on April 09, 2007, 07:10:01 PM

The first Japanese songs I heard were "Moonlight Densetsu" and "Ai no Senshi" from Sailor Moon, in around 2000 or early 2001.

The first "mainstream" Japanese artist doinkies heard of was, oddly enough, GLAY. I ended up on a GLAY fansite once and thought "Guys wearing makeup? Interesting", and started looking for their songs. Well, though I did find some songs of theirs, I ended up stumbling onto tons of other J-pop mp3 download sites and ended up downloading other songs too like "Audience" by Hamasaki Ayumi, "For You" by Utada Hikaru, "Amazing Kiss" by BoA, "Ai no Kakera" by Every Little Thing, "Seven Seas" by Aikawa Nanase...etc. And I discovered H!P on one of these sites, the somewhat misleadingly-named "Fantasy Palace", which was a Korean site (IIRC) that put up the then-new singles and albums for download. I first downloaded Renai Revolution 21, Pittari Shitai Xmas, Yaruki! It's Easy, Popcorn Love, and Futari Gurashi, and doinkies enjoyed these songs so much that I started looking for more songs by MoMusu, Pucchimoni, Goto Maki, and Nakazawa Yuko, and along the way I discovered that these artists were all related, under the same management, and that Maki was a member of MoMusu and Yuko used to be. That led me to find out even more about H!P and J-pop. And now doinkies never listens to GLAY or J-rock anymore, there are so many other interesting singers and groups in the J-pop world that aren't guys wearing makeup :P

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Post by: Kon-chan on April 12, 2007, 08:41:28 AM

It's start from anime. Mostly all my jmusic collections come from anime and doramas. But after this I manage to start collect all Jpop and Jrock genre music  ;D

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Post by: robber on May 15, 2007, 07:53:45 AM

I love Animes and Mangas! So I bought a magazine (AnimaniA) every month and there was after one year a J-Music/J-Culture part in it... and they said something about some Japanes Rock Bands. Some albums were going to released in Germany (dir en grey, Hyde for example) so I bought some...yeah and now I'm download some tracks but mostly I import it from Japan... I'm listening to JPop and Rock [^.^] that's my story... XD

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Post by: Since1983 on May 19, 2007, 06:09:55 AM

My cousin collected a lot of the music videos of Japanese singers on his computer. It was my first time listening to music by Utada Hikaru and Zard. Both got me hooked on Jpop for awhile.

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Post by: tempethegreat on May 19, 2007, 08:23:42 AM

i get into j-music from the anime....Naruto....
i heard the first japan song at the time....
haruka kanata from asian kungfu generation.....
and then i be addict to search about j-music.....
until now.....

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Post by: sugar on May 19, 2007, 01:04:16 PM

Sailor Moon.

LOL. I think a LOT of us can say that. I just loved the music once I started watching the Japanese version (around 7 years ago =P). I still love the music from it  :heart:

After that. Ayu was the first I got into =D

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Post by: conannd on May 31, 2007, 10:32:09 AM

owwhh... i've been into j-music since i was a kid.... it's because i watch too much japan movies like tokusatsu, super sentai and anime..... i watch google v, gavan, kamen rider black, saint seiya, sailor moon, and more.... yeahh.. definitely i love their theme song too.... i think that was the time that made me fell into japan music...... but back then.......... i ever got bored to it when i was in junior high... and started to love it again after i watch rurouni kensin... damn... love the theme song so much... and then my friends promote me some laruku stuff... so... yup... i fell to j-music deeper........... finally gocchin made me love h!p stuff so much since i was in my first year in university.........

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Post by: garfie on May 31, 2007, 06:26:24 PM

I heard a variety of jpop during opening and ending songs in Japanese dramas.

Have listened to those groups and more ever since.

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Post by: kinsei on June 01, 2007, 08:43:01 AM

from watching anime. i was (and still am) a huge fan of Saint Seiya. Saint Seiya's 1st opening is great http://youtube.com/watch?v=Px2zX-M2alQ

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Post by: schol3s on June 01, 2007, 04:20:22 PM

i start off with Morning Musme.... then recall theres a show call Music Station that had stop showing in my country i think many many years ago...
so i download Music Station to watch....
and there's how i get in to J-Music...

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Post by: Iamabowl on June 02, 2007, 01:52:15 AM

Someone posted some Go!Go!7188 videos on a music video newsgroup a few years back. I liked the songs but thought nothing of it. From there, someone gave me some X-Japan, but again I thought nothing of it. Then someone posted Morning Musume's Hawaiian Singles Collection, and I got it and listened to a few songs, but then forgot all about it.

Finally I was browsing through Google Videos when videos of Ayaka's Surprise English Lessons began cropping up, subtitled by SMP. I watched them, thought they were funny... things clicked, I started listening to the things I had downloaded before, and it just snowballed from there

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Post by: shurastriker on June 06, 2007, 04:19:03 AM

i guess it start when i enter a forum of bleach... before that i listened some songs of the openings and that but nothing special... but i that place they started to tell me about cool groups and because of that i´ve discover some cool music  (like moi dix mois) and also the Morning Musume music... started with manpower and one thing after another bla bla bla i ended in this forum...