To complement the Enka-sampled melody heard in the song, Secchin pulled together several Japanese pop culture references including Godzilla, Pikachu, and a few unidentifiable but undoubtedly Japanese characters.
Jero, you see, is the first black enka singer in the history of Japanese music, and he has single-handedly reignited interest in a soppy genre popular in the 60s and 70s but that has since been regarded as a joke.
To keep with the musical motif of naming characters, the new character Enker was named after the Japanese genre enka.
He had flown into Milan for two days with his parents to participate in an important design competition sponsored by Enka, the world's largest manufacturer of viscose filament yarn.
In recent years, this low-rise area of traditional izakaya bars and narrow alleys has spawned a new music scene that knits together every musical style imaginable — American roots, Showa Era jazz and even enka, the sentimental pop music of postwar Japan — in a way that is distinctly Japanese.
In the late morning the British advanced towards a large Enka BV factory complex in the eastern area of the city where a battalion of the 346th Infantry and troops of the 46th Festungs Machine Gun Battalion had set up a strong point.
His debut single, Umiyuki (Ocean Snow), entered the top 5 in 2008, whipping elderly Japanese ladies into a nostalgic frenzy as they remembered the joys of hearing enka in their youth.
