well, there's Maki, from HMC *runs to find a pic*

t3h pretty lead singer of HMC

and, because no one's posted her yet:

Koda Kumi as Lenne, from FFX-2...not only did she do the motion capture and modelling for Yuna in FFX, she does the VOICE in X-2

great idea of coming up with this thread, coolnard! :) i'll try to post my own japanese female idols later...

Thanks, ShibaInu! :D

dragonrazor: Did you really recommend it? O.o Oh well, you got what you wanted =P Great pics btw :vsign: Koda Kumi is the very definition of howtness! :p

Waru: Lol, omg.. Your friend must have had been mentally scarred... lol XD

Namie Amuro (desperately wiping drool off of keyboard before dad can come in and check on him XD)

<< what Waru described about his friend...you did see the pic of gackt kissing what looks like this totally hot girl? except...the girl is...HYDE *shudders*

and yeah, i recommended it there, and thanks about the pics...my friend Mai found me the Maki pic...i was having trouble finding any of just her, most of them had the band....

Namie Amuro is more what i'd call adorable...she just...doesn't attract me (she looks too young, i guess)

ah....i actually had a friend make that for me...i started with the full picture, which i sent to him...he did the rest...he made me an avatar for it too..the pic was sent to me by my ex, but i found it online somewhere *forgets where*

Drooool!
 

Lets straighaway get it awn with the 4 for 1 deal, right here, right now!



Not sure which J-pop group these fine young ladies are from, but I found their pic in an old blog :D

Now YUI is certainly a known figure seeing as her songs are popular enough. But what is a song without a face to go with it?.... and so I humbly bring you...



YUI-Whoooiiii!

Talk about SPEED
 

If you want your heart to race fast then just learn the secret of SPEED which is...




Aaaah! Are they really waving at me???!???...*Faints*

Maya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya
 

No japanese artiste thread is ever complete without the wonderful Maaya Sakamoto... Just listening to her voice sends me into raptures!



*Lost in thoughts of Escaflowne*