#Ikaten

Ikaten

Heisei Meibutsu TV: Yuji Miyake's Ikasu Band Tengoku” aired from 1989 to 1990 and was an amateur band contest program called ”Ikaten. The bands that appeared on the program ranged from the oddball to the avant-garde, but as a result, the program hooked up a number of hidden talents, such as “Tama,” which participated in the NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen (Red and White Singing Contest). It could be said that the frenzy was a festive atmosphere in which impulse and passion were the gasoline that drove the rush. Then, depressed young people who wanted to do something but did not know what to do started playing in bands after watching “Ikaten.