Genesis of the Denpa Pentateuch

Welcome to the Denpa Pentateuch.
This blog is dedicated to Japanese otaku culture, with focus on doujin music, denpa subculture and otaku history.

Before I begin, I wish to give my thanks to those who pushed me to pursue doujin music history and in turn open this blog. I want to thank the /jp/ Denpa Thread for providing me the spark to look deeper into denpa music. I want to thank Denpa no Sekai and the denpa omaera webpage for providing quality information over the past decade. I also want to thank the person behind the Akihabara@Deep thread of December 2018, who pushed me to look into the roots of otaku, as well as the editors in VGMDB for providing accurate, valuable information and image scans of albums I would had otherwise never heard about. Last but not least, I want to thank all others I've spoken with about doujin music and denpa anonymously and in name.

With thanks in place, I will begin with an introduction of denpa music. You might ask, why do so when other introductions already exist in English and Japanese. I believe that the roles of several key players in the 1990s justify revising the history of denpa music, shifting the focus from the traditional commercial approach to a mixed commercial and doujin approach, two development paths complemented by the otaku culture of the period. All to be covered in the next post.

Notes:
I update posts every once in a while if a change is needed - for example, when new information is presented.