Judy & Mary

Judy and Mary are a pop-punk band that scored continual success in the Japanese mainstream music scene throughout the second half of the 1990s. Formed in 1992 by singer Yuki, a squeaky voiced, young girl, and bass player and main writer Yoshihito Onda, the two went through several other band personnel until settling on Takuya (guitars) and Kota Igarashi (drums). With their outlandish costumes, which owed more to the giant hair bands of visual kei, and Yuki's often-bizarre on-stage antics, the band grew from cult group to mainstream favorites: they were, like it or not, a cute ...