Ah, Miyuki Imori（井森美幸）...always the bright presence in Japanese commercials and variety shows. It can be very easy to forget that she did start out as a 1980s aidoru.
The first and only Imori tune up to now that I put up was back in September 2016 and that was appropriately her debut as an aidoru, "Hitomi no Chikai"（瞳の誓い）in 1985. She only put out four more singles and one album up to the middle of 1986, and then came a temporal desert of nearly three years before she released her 6th and final single in May 1989, "Sepia-Anata-Kamo" (Sepia Might Be On You).
Actually. her last time in the recording booth might be the charm for me. It's got plenty of catchy synths and hooky lyrics (sasotte, sasowarete...) thanks to lyricist Kumiko Yoshizawa（吉澤久美子）and composer Tsugutoshi Goto（後藤次利）, and I think "Sepia-Anata-Kamo" is a tune that could also have been ideal for Miho Nakayama（中山美穂）who I thought was the 80s aidoru for dance music. Yoshizawa's lyrics relate the trials and tribulations of a young lady finding love in the big city although I couldn't quite get the significance of a sepia eye beam targeting the guy of her dreams. I had always thought the colour of sepia was connected to all things nostalgic.
Then, I figured it out from J-Wiki which showed the two tie-ups between her singles and commercials. Imori's debut "Hitomi no Chikai" was used for an antiperspirant ad while "Sepia-Anata-Kamo" was to promote the Suzuki Sepia Scooter. In other words, perhaps the translation for the title ought to be "You Might Be On A Sepia".
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