Hikaru Utada for her debut album First Love released in 10th March of 1999. Despite being her debut album the singles from this album "Automatic" and "First Love" were revolutionary and sold more than 10 million copies since it's release all over the world.
First love also inspired a Netflix series of the same name released in 2022 starring talented Hikari Mitsushima and Takeru Satoh which was equally successful and reminded many x gen and millennials about the nostalgia revolving around that iconic song.
Hikaru has also been very open towards same sex marriages and came out as non binary and uses she/her and they/them pronouns. In one of the interview she stated "It makes me uncomfortable to be identified so markedly by my marital status or sex, and I don't relate to any of those prefixes. Every time, I feel like I'm forced to misrepresent myself."