gebuss... umm....
i think the first band i searched by name was puffy yamoi....
but... i had a whole load of anime stuff...
Bordomes, doas infinity... they were pretty musch my first bands, then i whent through a Loudness phases.... but i've lost all that stuff now...
I guess mine was Malice Mizer, but I didn't get hooked then... I'm not a big fan of theirs now either.
Then I was hooked on Laruku for a while and then forgot about j-rock for a long time.
Then I discovered Diru
that would be miyavi...he's not a band, but still miyavi was my first
j-rocker...I fell complitely in love, If there wasn't for miyavi, I would never have discoverd all the other bands I love, and that's why miyavi will always be special to me, I really love that man....
my first band would be dir en grey
Dir en Grey. I heard a song from somewhere (don't remember), it was Garden I think, I liked, and I checked them out on google. I saw Toshiya, and it was... love at first sight?
shortly after, Miyavi came along. Meevers music hit me. It made me go 'whoooooooooopeeeeeeee'. ☝
... and thus, the pairing of MiyavixToshiya begann..
The first Japanese band I ever heard was Pizzicato 5. They had a song on american radio sometime around...'94 or so, and my brother really liked it. He had me listen to it about a year later, and that's pretty much what got me started.