I caught these opening credits for a 1983 anime called "Mirai Keisatsu Urashiman"（未来警察ウラシマン...Future Policeman Urashiman）which involves a young amnesiac who finds himself thrown into the future of 2050, joins the police force there and then, and fights the scourge of Necrime. He even takes on the cute punny name of Ryu Urashima (I guess Taro Urashima would have been way too obvious).
The reason that I picked up on this one is because of those opening credits which made me wonder whether the person or people behind all that Vaporwave imagery from about a decade ago had seen them. I mean, imagine having them and the theme song played at one-tenth the speed. Yeah, that would be the ticket for all those Vaporwave enthusiasts.
Speaking of the opening theme, that would be "Midnight Submarine" by singer-songwriter HARRY. Nothing too mysterious here; the song is a very happy-go-lucky number concocted by lyricist Chinfa Kan（康珍化）and composer Kisaburo Suzuki（鈴木キサブロー）as if Urashima were going for a more adventurous lark than a serious search for the truth behind his identity and time travel. "Midnight Submarine" sounds almost downright folksy.
HARRY is actually Noboru Kimura（木村昇）who was born in Hyogo Prefecture. Coming to Tokyo in 1969 as a 17-year-old, he started performing in bands as an alto sax player, but then a decade after his arrival, he started up the rock band TALIZMAN and became the main vocalist, backing up other acts such as Tetsuya Takeda's（武田鉄矢）Kaientai（海援隊）. Kimura took on the moniker HARRY going into the 1980s but soon found that he wasn't too thrilled with the daily grind of performing live, and left the stage in 1983. But wandering around Hokkaido, he met up with an old friend who performed on synthesizer and actually started performing again but has been keeping things to just that without any more recording or songwriting.
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