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

This is the most recent version of "More Than City Pop" from FanimeCon. This is an interesting panel as it was the first one completely finished before the con since some of the other panels required heavy research. That means that this one sat completed for months and was nearly completely rewritten by the time the convention came around just because better (or at least more consistent) sources on charting songs was discovered in that time. That doesn't really matter though as each of these songs are definitely "hits" so the idea of the panel still stands. With that said, the next version of this will be VERY different, so please check that out.

The songs from the opening montage can be found below. It was supposed to be one from each year and listing them makes one notice that 1981 was accidentally left out. Oops!

• Daitokai - Crystal King (1980)
• Ikenai Rouge Magic - Kiyoshiro Iwamano & Ryuichi Sakamoto (1982)
• Sentimental Journey - Iyo Matsumoto (1982)
• Cat's Eye - ANRI (1983)
• Monica - Koji Kikkawa (1984)
• Ribbon - Chiemi Hori (1985)
• DANCING HERO (Eat You Up) - Yoko Oginome (1986)
• GET WILD - TM NETWORK (1987)
• Ai ga Tomaranai ~Turn It Into Love~ - WINK (1988)
• BE MY BABY - COMPLEX (1989)

Also, the interview mentioned after the KABUKI-ROCKS slide can be found HERE. Keep in mind that it's a much older interview (Year One A-to-J) so it may not be up to what we consider our current standards.