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>>Aah, the japanese version of the Powerpuff Girls!
>  >http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/POWERPUFF/
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>I didn't even know the existence of the "original" Powerpuff girls. :-)
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>Isn't there anything a bit more "serious" out there?

You might try Looking for something by Utada Hikaru.  She is a huge 
star here and attempted a forced entry into the US market about 2 
years ago.  She can sing reasonably well which makes people here 
crank their heads around to the "he hears his masters voice" angle 
and say "what's that sound".  Unfortunately for her she thought that 
being better than 98% of the singers in her country meant that she 
was great rather than merely good which would have been true anyplace 
else but....


>Some homepages of
>something you could call "well selling japanese pop artists"?

There is no such phenomenon as Japanese artist selling well outside 
of Japan.  A I take that back Sakamoto Kyu had a big hit in the 60's 
that is still often remade.  Ue Wo Mite Arukou was release in the US 
under the title Sukiyaki (totally absurd title as it has nothing to 
do with the song).  Sakamoto's version is a classic he had a 
wonderful voice.  He died alone with something 480 other people in 
1986 in what was at the time the worst plane crash ever.