Music of The Lost Decade: A Guide to Japanese Pop In The 90s (San Diego Anime Con 2023) Panel Slides

Even though this panel was written way back at the start of the year, I assumed that there'd be several versions of it by now. Maybe because so few cons took it, and I had to create so many variants of the 80s panel, I realized that the 90s one was barely moving forward. This SDAC one was actually just the Sin City one, but like truncated and with a couple new slides that I never really liked. I had started making a version for ALA that was going to be like 75% different content and even format, but since they didn't take it I only had the outline of it. That said I decided to take the parts I'd actually written for ALA and incorporate them here so that it would be distinctly different from past versions, at least a bit. What's interesting is I almost took out the KAN slides, but decided to just leave them one last time and we LITERALLY got back to our hotel room after the panel when I saw a post from a friend on Twitter that KAN had passed away that day. That's just crazy to me since I was a huge fan of "Ai wa Katsu", and had just been talking about him hours before. Anyhow, 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:

• Ima Sugu Kiss Me - LINDBERG (1990 #3)
• Donna Toki mo. - Noriyuki Makihara (1991 #4)
• Sore ga Daiji - Daiji MAN Brothers Band (1992 #3)
• Manatsu no Yoru no Yume - Yumi Matsutoya (1993 #8)
• BOY MEETS GIRL (1994 #9)
• LOVE LOVE LOVE - DREAMS COME TRUE (1995 #1)
• LA LA LA LOVE SONG - Kubota Toshinobu with Naomi Campbell (1996 #3)
• CAN YOU CELEBRATE? - Namie Amuro (1997 #1)
• Time goes by - Every Little Thing (1998 #9)
• HEAVEN'S DRIVE - L'Arc~en~Ciel (1999 #9)