In Popular Culture
Ringo Sheena is one of the driving forces that caused a songstress boom from the late 1990s to early 2000s in Japan. Nearly half of them debuted in 1998. Sheena was also one of fashion icon around 2000. There have also been girls called Ringo Gal who imitated Sheena's clothing, and were featured by a Japanese tabloid TV show in 1999. The Duesenberg Starplayer guitar which Sheena has used recorded the historical sales of about 1000 sets in Japan in 2000.
Sheena's name often appeared on the books, movies, TV dramas and songs, such as the Japanese movie All About Lily Chou-Chou (with The Beatles, Björk, and UA), Maximum the Hormone's song "Sheena basu tei de matsu.", Kreva's single "Idome", the Japanese movie Linda Linda Linda, the TV drama Furuhata Ninzaburō final series, the book by Taro Aso who is the 92nd Prime Minister of Japan Totetsumonai Nihon (as a singer representative of Jpop with Hikaru Utada).
Sheena is a model for a lot of characters of manga, anime and video games, such as Nana Osaki (Nana), Haruko Haruhara (FLCL), Ringo Awaya, the favourite singer of Anna Kyoyama (Shaman King, Butsu Zone), I-No' (the fighting game; Guilty Gear XX), Mayumi, the nurse with brown-dyed hair (Hideo Okuda's novel; Psychiatrist Irabu series), Murasaki (video game; pop'n music 7). Harold Sakuishi drew the frontispiece of his manga BECK on the model for the record sleeve of Sheena's single "Honnou".
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