How everyone got into JPop music?

I don't know when exactly was the first time Japan entertainment come to my country, but I fell in love with it after watching Japanese dorama Long Vacation starred Kimura Takuya. The theme song La La La Love Song by Kubota Toshinobu also sounds good.
After that, I started to seek for more Japan music.. My love for JPop grew bigger after I heard Hikki's First Love, and it was also a theme song of a dorama that broadcasted in my country :XD: So we can say first time I got into JPop music was bcoz of dorama tie in.

Umm well I heard Jpop when I watched Inuyasha~

But i really started to get into Jpop when I heard Namie's Baby Don't Cry on TV~

I heard My Will by Dream from Inuyasha early on, and liked that. I was about 14 at the time. A friend sent me a few Ayumi Hamasaki eurobeat remixes and Four Seasons by Namie Amuro, and I soon downloaded ALL FOR YOU, COME, and GIRL TALK. However, the first Japanese music I truly became a fan of was that of BeForU (and its lead singer, Riyu Kosaka), a now disbanded group which had a few songs in DDR, beatmaniaIIDX, GF&DM, etc. I'm still a big Bemani fan today and follow the members solo projects somewhat :bingo:

All thanks to anime
Hmm pretty much Inuyasha made me interested with JPop

By accident.

I was browsing thru YesAsia website for some Cpop music when I saw this ad for Ayumi Hamasaki A Complete album. Then I fell in love with her.

And yes, I found alan by accident too, thru youtube via avex channel. lol!

@alanamra: OMG BeForU I miss them I also miss Riyu! What happened! She was such an amazing singer :(

anyways I discovered Jpop through anime, singers like KOTOKO, Riyu Kosaka, other I've Sound singers and then I branched out into other Jpop!

It was a loooong time ago when my brother had it on his computer! I was introduced to J-POP in '99 with ayu's song "Depend on you"! :) So through out middle school and high school, I was listening to J-Pop! ^_^ So, most people's J-POP start was anime, mine was my older brother! XDD So, I knew Ayu sang Dearest when everyone else didn't! :D

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Through Kingdom Hearts. I liked Hikki's Simple & Clean so I downloaded some of her other stuff. I was really surprised when she suddenly started singing Japanese XD

Ayu made me do it


a friend got me hooked on Ayu after me and a old gf split , he created a monster lol. i thanked him for it a few years later .

With Koda Kumi's song That Ain't Cool.



I'm so ashamed .______.

Hearning Ayu with "Born to be..." & Koda Kumi with "Candy", both in TV.

I saw ayu's picture somewhere on the internet and thought she's european (cause of her huge eyes) and then found out her name (realized she's japanese lol) and downloaded some songs (randomly) and surprised... I mean, at first I thought she's a horrible singer (I heard material from her first 3 albums) but it got stuck on me, like I felt the need to listen to it again... and again... and became my drug.

I picked out Utada Hikaru's Addicted to You single at some cheap (and pirated) CD stall in Hong Kong when I was five...that's when it all began lol. Ayumi Hamasaki came next.

alan - sora uta <3

Hikki - Automatic then a few years later Can You Keep a Secret and Final Distance. Then came ayu's M.

When I was around 14 I had a phase where I was kind of addicted to AMV (Anime Music Videos XD;; ). Anyway, one AMV I watched used Ayu's Memorial Address, and I just fell in love with it the moment I heard it. I replayed the video several times, and then I started searching for some place I could buy it. This somehow lead me to YesAsia, where I ordered the Memorial Address mini-album.

when i'm still child my home teacher give me 1 CD full of japan song, from that CD i heard ayumi - depend on you, then i love it, when i play Thousand Arms on PS1, i hear "depend on you" is the OP song, after that i collecting all ayumi singles and albums, and till now i only listening to japanese songs.. and bcoz of anime i totaly love J-POP, even my country song, i didn't hear it at all