Hitomi Takahashi

A wide-eyed pop/rocker having a punkish slant, Hitomi Takahashi produced a splash on japan picture with her debut in 2005, but didn’t replicate her achievement, although her moderate recognition rarely wavered because of her contribution to anime soundtracks, aswell as collaborations using the synth-punk celebrities Defeat Crusaders. Hitomi (her name means “vision”; she was therefore named, unsurprisingly, due to her large eye) was raised inside a music-loving family members on a diet plan of Beatles and Eric Clapton. She was thinking about dance-pop as a teenager, but chosen a rock profession after an effective karaoke program, and received a Sony Music SD audition (Vo-che3) within a 12 months, defeating 20,000 competitors. Her debut solitary, “Bokutachi no Yukue,” released while she toiled at her high-school examinations, served as a style song towards the strike anime series Gundam Seed Future and became a smash strike alone, charting at number 1 — the 3rd single debut to draw that off in the annals of Oricon. The record shifted 135,000 copies and prompted Takahashi to start out her very own radio show. Another one, “Evergreen,” was linked with the dilemma New Kids Battle, but charted beyond your Top 20; nevertheless, her third discharge, “Aozora no Namida,” found in the anime Bloodstream+, climbed to amount eight and marketed 80,000-plus copies. In early 2006, Takahashi was on the move — she was acclaimed as New Musician of the entire year at japan Gold Disc Honours in 2006, released the debut full-length Sympathy, which reached amount ten, and lastly debuted live (that was not so easy, taking into consideration she was still a higher schooler). Nevertheless, her earning streak ended using the one “Conversation” (2006), which ceased at amount 60 despite a tie-in using a chat show. Around that point, Takahashi begun to collaborate with Takuya of Judy and Mary, who created her five singles in 2006-2007. Nearly all those had been poor retailers, although “Candy Line,” that was found in the Gintama anime series, reached amount 14, and “Plane Boy Jet Female,” a tie-in using the anime Toward the Terra, ceased at amount 22. Still, at that time she caused Takuya Takahashi, who graduated from college in 2008, she begun to gain innovative independence, composing her very own lyrics and drifting toward pop-punk, that was the audio of her second record, Bamboo Collage (2007), another industrial disappointment (it ceased at amount 63). In ’09 2009, she also collaborated with Defeat Crusaders on another Gintama theme, “Wo Ai Ni,” and starred in a brief film included on the band’s live Dvd and blu-ray.