Yes,they´re famous in Japan,along with pop singers like Utada Hikaru and the like.My favourite Japanese band is not one of those,though.I´m talking about Envy.But I also like Mono.Both bands share a post rock feel.I´m not into the Visual Kei scene,but I´ve listened to some of those bands and I´ve liked them.I suppose that the closest musicians to the average "opening band"I listen to are B´z (the guitarist´s awesome!).What I mean is that "J-something"is a ridiculous tag because their music could have been written anywhere.Take Dragon´s Ash case,for example.

Changing Japanese names into English ones is one of the usual changes "they"do to make it more appalling to Western audiences.It´s one of the (often silly)changes I was talking you about.By the way...do you know Death Note?Well,when I first heard about it I laughed for a long time,because the main character´s Light Yagami.What is the Japanese word for "light?"It´s "hikari".And Hikari Yagami was the name of Kari,Tai´s sister.When they translated their names,"Yagami"was changed by "Kamiya".I used both surnames,as for some odd reason,they translated it by both ways.

I also liked Angemon,but the one I liked the most from the Chosen Digimon was WarGreymon.Unless you count SkullGreymon,that´s it.I liked WereGarurumon too.

Regarding Gatomon,I liked his friendship towards Wizardmon,another of my favourite characters.You´re not the only one who thought of Digimon while listening to Ravel´s Bolero.I remember we once had to listen to some classical pieces for Music class,and write in a piece of paper what we thought while listening to them.I still remember what I wrote down :"Parrotmon and Greymon fight in Odaiba".

I like electronic music,but I don´t listen to it most of the time.