YMMV / Yumi Matsutoya

• Archive Panic: Has 37 studio albums, 2 extended plays, 2 live albums, and about an album's worth of songs that were exclusive to singles.
• Covered Up: Subverted. The success of Hi-Fi Set's cover of "Soutsugyou Shashin" was one of the factors in her rise to widespread popularity in 1975. It's become one of her most popular and well-loved songs despite never being released as a single.
• Creator Couple: Married her producer Masataka Matsutoya.
• Darker and Edgier: Her 1980 album "Toki no Nai Hotel" (The Hotel Without Time) isn't relentlessly dark, but has a very moody and somber tone compared to a lot of her other albums.
• Epic Riff: The electric guitar from "Destiny."
• Shout-Out: Figure skater Yuzuru Hanyu performed to a piano version of "Haru yo, koi" as one of his gala/exhibition programs, because his mother (coincidentally also named Yumi) is a big fan of Yumi Matsutoya and listened to the original a lot when she was pregnant with him.
• Signature Song: Has several.
  • From her time as Yumi Arai, we have "Yasashisa ni Tsutsumareta nara" (If I'm Enveloped In Tenderness), "Rouge no Dengon" (Message in Rouge), "Chuo Freeway," and "Soutsugyou Shashin" (Graduation Photo).
  • From her time as Yumi Matsutoya, we have "Destiny," "Mamotte Agetai" (I Want to Protect You), "Hello, my friend," and "Haru yo, koi" (Come, Spring).
• Tear Jerker: "Hikoukigumo" (Vapor Trail) is one, especially when used in The Wind Rises. "Soutsugyou Shashin" is also bittersweet.