More Than City Pop: A Guide to Japanese Pop In The 80s (Ronin Expo 2023) Panel Slides

Sometime in Summer 2023 I finally found the info I'd needed for over a year: The full 1980s Oricon End-of-Year lists. This meant that all the older "More Than City Pop" panels were now extremely obsolete. I still stand by that they aren't inaccurate, as the songs and artists presented are/were important, but I immediately started working on a new version that fits the criteria I have for the other decade panels. Seeing as Ronin Expo and San Diego Anime Con were the ones I had a good feeling would accept, I started there. I made two versions of the panel, and this one was only completed very recently as Ronin Expo sent the panel confirmation relatively close to the con. This is only a 60 minute version, so I hope to one day do a full 90 minute version, but either way, I plan to fully retire this panel at some point in 2024, so enjoy it while you can! Be sure to come to a panel near you, and thank you to everyone who has either attended one or somehow made it to this page!

Lastly, the songs from the opening montage can be found below:

• Aishuu Date (NEW YORK CITY NIGHTS) - Toshihiko Tahara (1980 #10)
• Sneaker Blues - Masahiko Kondo (1981 #3)
• Madonna-tachi no Lullaby - Hiromi Iwasaki (1982 #3)
• CAT'S EYE - ANRI (1983 #6)
• Rock'n Rouge - Seiko Matsuda (1984 #3)
• Tsubasa no Woreta Angel - Ayumi Nakamura (1985 #13)
• Friends - REBECCA (1986 #30)
• Kimi Dake ni - Shonentai (1987 #10)
• ANGEL - Kyosuke Himuro (1988 #8)
• Tonbo - Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi (1989 #3)