Okay, so maybe these 5 records don’t need to be re-released but they sure are on my radar for some of the most sought after records in the City Pop style. Maybe this is more like a wish-list than a blog post, so sorry in advance. Some records I haven’t included are Anri’s discography and Tatsuro’s because it seems they are determined to never make more of their music available on vinyl ever again, or some reason I can’t understand.

City Pop vinyl is extremely collectable because of certain factors, mainly that LPs have always been sought after collector’s items, and also fans of Japanese culture are usually innately collectors of things like figurines, cards, and manga among other things. The tendency was already there, it just needed a shove in the right direction. Humans like to collect things, this much is definitely true. Anything that can be collected, will be collected.