Emi Wakui -- Mirai kara no Tegami（未来からの手紙）

To be honest, I wasn't expecting to discover another Emi Wakui（和久井映見）song that I would like but I was happily proven wrong. After all, I've always seen Wakui far more as an actress than I ever saw her as a singer.

I can't really go into the nitty-gritty of why I think so, but her "Mirai kara no Tegami" (A Letter from the Future) just sounds so early 90s J-Pop. Maybe it's the way that the arrangement of the song sounds somewhat ZARD-ish. In any case, the down-to-earth pop by Hirokazu Ogura（小倉博和）is quite appealing to me. The lyrics by Rui Serizawa（芹沢類）talk about that final goodbye between a woman and a man going on their separate paths.

The song is on Wakui's 4th original album "Dareka ga Anata ni Kissu Shiteru"（だれかがあなたにキスしてる...Someone is Kissing You）which came out in November 1992.

Emi Wakui -- My Lonely Goodbye Club （マイ・ロンリィ・グッバイ・クラブ）

Emi Wakui（和久井映見） was a familiar face as an actress on a lot of 90s J-Dramas such as "Imoto yo"（妹よ...My Little Sister）, "Pure" and "Virgin Road". But the very first time I actually saw her was not via a weekly hour-long program but on a 3-minute-and-change music video. And yep, I actually did see her on that Japan MTV late-night broadcast. "My Lonely Goodbye Club" was her New Year's Day 1990 debut tune, the first of 13 singles she would release up to mid-1997.

She didn't exactly have the strongest vocals, but "My Lonely Goodbye Club", written by Chinfa Kan（康珍化）and composed by Toshio Kamei（亀井登志男）, had a pleasant enough champagne-and-caviar urban contemporary vibe, and the music video (which unfortunately has been taken down) has the very attractive Wakui decked out to the nines for a night on the town.