When I saw the one comment underneath the above YouTube video for Satoko Shimonari's（下成佐登子）"Koi no Epilogue" (Love Epilogue), her 7th single from June 1982, I had to also admit that there were some obvious similarities between this tune and Junko Ohashi's（大橋純子）classic "Tasogare My Love" (たそがれマイ・ラブ）from 1978. In fact, I'd assumed that the latter song's composer, the late Kyohei Tsutsumi（筒美京平）, was also behind this song but it was actually Kaoru Nakajima（中島薫）as the composer for "Koi no Epilogue" with Makoto Yuuki（結城まこと）as the lyricist and Masaaki Omura（大村雅朗）as the arranger.
However, following a certain melody line or copying chords isn't particularly new in Japanese pop music especially when it comes to the 1980s. Not sure how Tsutsumi saw it; maybe he let bygones be bygones and focused on the expression "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery". Well, whatever the case may be, "Koi no Epilogue" is still a nice song to listen to (which shows how good Tsutsumi was) and Shimonari's delivery reminds me of some of Junko Yagami's（八神純子）soaring swagger and Ruiko Kurahashi's（倉橋ルイ子）smokiness.
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