Last week, Pocari informed me of this late 1980s/early 1990s aidoru by the name of Junko Kawada（河田純子）. I had heard of her before but never touched upon her music until today.
Pocari led me to this single, Kawada's 5th from March 1990 titled "Kakuu no Koibito-tachi" (Imaginary Lovers) about a couple of lovebirds keeping their relationship playfully under wraps for the time being. The song was written and composed by Tomoko Konno（今野登茂子）, the keyboardist for popular band Princess Princess（プリンセス・プリンセス）, and it does have that Puri Puri combination of cheerful pop and rock. Ah, natsukashii...
Recording 9 official singles and 3 original albums up to 1991, Kawada hails from Akita Prefecture and has also done some songwriting and acting. According to J-Wiki, she's also now an esthetician. It's said that she had made her debut in the last years of the 1980s aidoru wave along with Eriko Tamura（田村英里子）and Wakako Shimazaki（島崎和歌子）among others. With two other aidoru, Shinobu Nakayama（中山忍...sister of Miporin） and Mamiko Tayama（田山真美子）, Kawada helped form the trio Rakutenshi（楽天使...Happy Angels） in late 1989. Then, the following year, she also joined four others to create the group Nanatsuboshi（七つ星...Seven Stars）. Finally many years after leaving the aidoru industry, in 2005, she, under the stage name of Jurika（樹凛花）, and Osaka-born Haruka（永遠花...actress Reina Yoshida/吉田玲奈）began the short-term duo of LENPHa.
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