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The show served as a Trojan Horse for Japanese pop culture. Every episode featured segments of the real band performing live-action music videos or animated shorts set to their songs. Kids who had never heard of J-Rock were suddenly humming along to tracks like "Planet Tokyo," "K2G," and their earlier hit "Boomerang 2004."

The result was —in the best way.