YOASOBI will be in charge of “NHK Sports Theme 2024”!

It has been decided that YOASOBI will be in charge of the theme song “NHK Sports Theme 2024” that will enliven NHK's sports broadcasts and programs in 2024. According to NHK, “In addition to broadcasting various sports this year, it will also be used for broadcasting the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, which begin in July.'' To create the song, we asked three manga artists, Taizan 5, Yuki Kirishima, and Kuruga Haruno, who are active in Shueisha's “Shonen Jump +'', to create a work with a sports theme. Then, Jun Esaka wrote novels based on the completed manga, and created songs based on those novels. Furthermore, comments from YOASOBI himself have arrived! Please look forward to it.

▼YOASOBI comment

I am very honored to be in charge of NHK's sports theme.

With the help of the manga, novels, and many other people, I will do my best to create a colorful song. (Ayase)

Thank you very much for this wonderful opportunity. We will deliver music that is close to your heart and that will warm you up together. Nice to meet you. (ikura)

▼ Planned use (by NHK)

・Japan Athletics Championships broadcast

・Paris Olympics 2024

・Paris Paralympics 2024, etc.

▼The work on which the song is based

Title[Two people apart]

Written by: Taizan 5

©︎Taizan 5/Shueisha

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“Jump Rookie!” Received the Editorial Department Expectation Award at the “Monthly Rookie Award” for September 2020. Serialized “Tacopee's Original Sin'' in “Shonen Jump +'' and “Ichinose Family's Deadly Sin'' in “Weekly Shonen Jump.''

Title[Parallel Lane]

Written by Yuki Kirishima

©︎Yuki Kirishima/Shueisha

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In 2022, the one-shot “Metamorolita” will be released on Jump+. After that, he published the one-shots “Christmas Destroyer'' and “I Do Love You'' in the same magazine.

Title[Endless Deuce]

Written by: Haruno Hikka

©︎Haruno Kuruga/Shueisha

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“Shonen Jump + Manga Award'' winter 2022, 105th Tezuka Award runner-up.

Novel: Jun Esaka

[Profile]Born in Kanagawa Prefecture. After graduating from Waseda University, he began his writing career. He has worked on novelizations such as “ONE PIECE novel HEROINES'', “NARUTO series'', and “Detective Pikachu'' (Shogakukan Junior Bunko).

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A unit that turns novels into music, consisting of composer Ayase and vocalist Ikura. The first song “Yoru ni Kakeru” released in November 2019 ranked No. 1 on Billboard Japan's comprehensive song chart “HOT 100” in 2020, and in September 2023 it reached 1 billion cumulative streaming times for the first time in history. Break through regeneration. The long-awaited first CD “THE BOOK” was released on January 6, 2021. The luxurious specifications attracted a lot of attention, and while it debuted at number 2 on the Oricon Daily Ranking, all of its songs simultaneously ranked within the top 15 on the Apple Music streaming chart. In February, he held his first one-man live “KEEP OUT THEATER” at the construction site of the former Milanoza in Shinjuku. In July, a collaborative live performance with UNIQLO “UT'' called “SING YOUR WORLD'' was held at UNIQLO Ariake Headquarters, UNIQLO CITY TOKYO, and the event was lively streamed on YouTube, attracting a record 280,000 simultaneous users. . In December, they released their 2nd EP “THE BOOK 2'', which includes all of the songs released that year, and their first live performance with an audience at Nippon Budokan was a great success. In the same month, they ranked first on Spotify's “Most Streamed Japanese Artists Overseas in 2021” ranking. The song is also attracting attention from overseas, with “Monster” being selected as one of “The 10 Best Songs of 2021” published in the American news magazine “TIME”. To date, 12 of the released songs have been streamed over 100 million times. In February 2022, four Naoki Prize-winning authors, Rio Shimamoto, Mitsuki Tsujimura, Miyuki Miyabe, and Eto Mori, will start a project called “Hajimete no'' in which they will write original novels and release songs in sequence. In August, she made her first summer festival appearance on the stage of “ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL 2022”, and also performed for the first time at festivals in various places, and her special stage and production using LED panels became a hot topic. In February 2023, they released “Adventure” in collaboration with Universal Studios Japan, and in April, they released “Idol”, the opening theme for the TV anime “Oshinoko”. “Idol” left Japan and received a huge response overseas, ranking first on the Billboard JAPAN general song chart “HOT 100” for 21 consecutive weeks, and also on the global chart, ranking first on the Billboard GLOBAL TOP 200 (Excl.US). was established. In August, they held their first American performance at HEAD IN THE CLOUDS LA, and in September, they appeared on the popular Korean music program “M COUNTDOWN”.

On September 29th, they released their new song “Yuusha”, the opening theme for the TV anime “Furiren: The Funeral of Frieren”, and just released their third EP “THE BOOK 3” on October 18th. In December, they headlined the Hong Kong festival Clockenflap and the Taipei festival 2023 Simple Life, and their upcoming solo overseas performances are selling out in no time, proving that they are a representative of J-POP and an artist who is making waves around the world, demonstrating their outstanding performances in all areas both at home and abroad.