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Originally Posted by Andrenekoi
Ai Otsuka was very compared to Ayu during her peak, but this may be just because they were both big female soloists. This may be an unpopular opinion, but I do see a strong Ayu influence on some Koda Kumi stuff. Not enough for Koda to be considered an Ayu clone, still... In some sense, I feel like every Avex soloist from the 00's, after Ayu was already Ayu, were styled to at least look a little like her, like Hitomi Shimatani and Alan...
If I remember it right, she even had the same composers:
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Alan came to mind. Diamond sound just like M/momentum/missing missing identical twin.
And the koto part that is used prominently in the opening of sakura modern is also used in the breakdown (but speed up) in Green.