Japanese pop-culture obsession

I just love everything about the Japanese pop-culture and many people think it's a phase but I don't think so. It started when I was sixteen, I watched Spirited Away and fell in love with Anime.

After this movie I started buying other movies and series and it became an obsession to see new classic anime movies or series. I want to share a few series with you I really liked but if you want to know all the anime I have seen you can go to: MyAnimeList. My nickname is himeno16 and I got it from the first anime serie I have seen called Pretear and I really loved it. The serie is about Himeno who is 16 years old and our characters were a lot alike so thats why I chose this nickname.

After that I started to watch Japanese movies and "real life" drama series, my life changed after I saw the movie Casshern. The movie itself is a masterpiece but I also fell in love with the music.

I downloaded the original soundtrack and was really surprised that I really liked some of the music that was made inspired by the movie. I fell in love with a song from Chihiro Onitsuka called Borderline,

and after that I got curious do the Japanese have Pop/Urban music as well? They do and how, I fell in love with Japanese pop/urban and it felt like this was the music that was right for me. Somehow I also fell in love with the language and I get very happy when I hear something in Japanese. I've been telling this story to many people but it is very confronting to write it down like this, it really does sound funny. So after that I discovered Namie Amuro, a very famous pop/urban Japanese singer and performer.

I have more artists I really like, I will put a few more video's from them here since there are a lot of artists I like. This is Crystal Kay with It's a crime.

Here is Jade Valerie and she is from America but really famous in Korea and Japan. She lives in Frankurt and has a German producer where she works with. I really like her music for many years and she is my example when it comes to making music and performing.

This is Jade Valerie working with Emiri Miyamoto a Japnese violin Player, their album Saint Vox sounds really good.

This is Anna Tsuchiya a half American and Half Japanese and that is very special in Japan, I really like her songs and her acting.

But its not like I don't listen to western music anymore but I have more Japanese music on my Ipod then western music. Some other artists I really like are, Lady Gaga, The Veronicas, Britney Spears, Hadise (Turkish/Belgian singer) and Eminem. I realize it's not much, I thought it would be a little more artists.