Yohmo To Ohana's song "Zutto Zutto Zutto" has been chosen as the ending theme for the NHK special anime "Cocoon - From Girls of a Summer."

The broadcast date and time for the special anime "Cocoon: From Girls of a Summer," which was broadcast in advance on BS in March this year, has been decided for General TV. Yohmo To Ohana's song "Zutto Zutto Zutto" has been chosen as the ending theme.

What happened to a group of young girls on a southern island one summer could happen to us someday... How do we feel when our peaceful daily lives suddenly turn into a battlefield and our lives are put in a desperate situation? Based on the manga "Cocoon" by Machiko Kon, which was inspired by the Battle of Okinawa during the Pacific War, a promising young talent and veterans of Japanese animation have created a story they hope to deliver in 2025. This is an animation that makes you think about the past, present, and future. Please take a look. For more information, please visit the official website.

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Original work by Machiko Kyo "cocoon"
Voice cast: Hikari Mitsushima (Mayu) Marika Ito (Sun)
Director: Tohko Ina Music: Kensuke Ushio
Animation Producer: Tateno Hitomi

■Ending theme "Always, always, always ~cocoon Ver.~"

Lyrics and composition: Chiba Hana
Arrangement: Ikuko Harada
Vocals: Marika Ito

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[Broadcast date and time]

NHK General TV, Monday, August 25th, 11:45pm
NHK Anime Website:https://www.nhk.jp/g/blog/iwb6htq-b0p/

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【wool and flower】

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by ldandk

Natsuko Eclipse's self-produced music video for track 12 "Somewhere Far Away" from her latest album "Ginka" has been released!

Piano and vocal solo artist Natsuko Eclipse has released the music video for "Dokka Tooku Made," the 12th track on her 5th full album, "Ginka."

The song "Somewhere Far Away" was born from the record of a trip she took with her friends all over the country. This work is a collection of the scenes she shot during that trip, edited by Natsuko herself.
During the recent Zepp tour "Gyoku-to" this video was projected during the song, giving the venue a sneak preview and was met with great acclaim as it was made by the artist himself. The release of this music video was surely long-awaited news for fans of the song as well as those who witnessed it at the venue.

No matter how much we seek in life, we never get enough. "Somewhere Far Away" is a song about those irreplaceable days that are somehow anxious and somehow dear, and will one day become treasures. We hope you enjoy the song while feeling those days reflected through Natsuko Eclipse's eyes.

─ Natsuko Eclipse "Somewhere Far Away" Music Video ─
https://youtu.be/9ZeOZHpUJhk

─ Eclipse Natsuko comment ─
I've come a lot further than I ever hoped.
I have been given much more than I ever wanted.
Even so, he still doesn't seem to be ready to put down his brush and say, "That's enough."
After our first Zepp tour, that desire has only increased.
Oh dear. I hope that I can go somewhere far as I continue to walk with a smile of amazement.

[Latest release information]
Artist: Nisshoku Natsuko
Title: 5th Full Album "Ginka" (Reading: Ginka)
Release date: Wednesday, May 14, 2024
Special site:https://nisshoku-natsuko.com/iridescence-gyokuto/
Streaming link:https://orcd.co/_iridescence

＜First limited edition/CD+DVD＞
Price: 8,500 yen (excluding tax) / 9,350 yen (including tax)
Product number: 420-LDKDV
Label: Living, Dining & Kitchen Records

＜First limited edition/CD+Blu-ray＞
Price: 10,500 yen (excluding tax) / 11,550 yen (including tax)
Product number: 421-LDKXD
Label: Living, Dining & Kitchen Records

＜Regular Edition/CD Only＞
Price: 3,500 yen (excluding tax) / 3,850 yen (including tax)
Product number: 422-LDKCD
Label: Living, Dining & Kitchen Records

＜Contents＞
[CD]
01 Flashbang and halation
02 Wind, Flowers, Noise, City
03 Vacancy
04 julep-ment flight
05 Yatogami
06 Leeway
07 Rustyland
08i
09 0821_a (remaster ver.)
10 May Rain, Sixteen Nights, Seven Stars
11 (an unknown crew)
12 Somewhere Far Away

[DVD, Blu-ray]
Eclipse Natsuko 15th Anniversary -Space Swimming-
Unreleased Song Tour "Area Mirai" June 21, 2024 EX THEATER ROPPONGI
01 b
02k
03j
04 d
05 e
06 f
07 g
08 c
09h
10a
11 c (request)
12 f (request)
13 a (request)
・Audio commentary by Natsuko Eclipse and komaki
・Bonus footage: "Once again, a certain May night"

[Latest tour information]
Artist: Nisshoku Natsuko
Title: "Reiwa Modernism II "lapin""
Title reading: Reiwa Modernism to Lapin
November 8th (Sat) Hokkaido | Former Hakodate Ward Public Hall
November 13th (Thursday) Tokyo | Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan
November 15th (Sat) Shizuoka | Kiunkaku Music Salon
Thursday, November 20th, Kyoto | Museum of Kyoto
November 28th (Friday) Iwate | Iwate Prefectural Public Hall Room 21
December 5th (Friday) Nagano | Ueda Eigeki
December 12th (Friday) Tokyo | Waseda Hoshien Scott Hall
December 19th (Friday) Nagasaki | Sasebo Civic Cultural Hall Triumphant Memorial Hall
December 25th (Thursday) Okayama | Renes Hall
December 26th (Friday) Ehime | Bansuiso
December 28th (Sun) Kagawa | Former Zentsuji Kaikyosha Shrine, Great Hall

Ticket website & SNS advance reservations:
August 11th (Monday/holiday) 20:00 to August 24th (Sunday) 23:59
https://eplus.jp/nisshoku-hp/
Natsuko Nisshoku "Reiwa Modernism II "lapin"" Special website:
https://nisshoku-natsuko.com/reiwa-modernism-lapin/

<Natsuko Solar Eclipse Profile>
Born May 8, 1991 in Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture.
Started playing the piano at the age of 9 and writing songs at the age of 12. From the age of 17, she started full-scale music activities based in Morioka as "Nisshoku Natsuko". The meticulously crafted lyric world and composition techniques that sway the heartstrings have attracted attention, and have appeared in many large festivals. Released in 2021, "Anti-Freeze" was selected as a prize-winning work at the 14th CD Shop Awards 2022, and in recent years he has also written many new movie theme songs and commercial music. Nisshoku Natsuko's dense music that she creates one after another knows no bounds in creativity, and her musical ability and performance, including her unique composition style that expresses guitar, bass, and sometimes even percussion parts such as drums with a single piano, are outstanding. It goes beyond the imagination and framework of a piano-playing artist. Strength, weakness, sharpness, ephemeralness, the piano music that runs at full speed pierces the listener's heart and provides a unique musical experience.

<Natsuko Solar Eclipse Digital Distribution>
https://orcd.co/nisshoku
<Natsuko Solar Eclipse Official Website>
https://nisshoku-natsuko.com/
<Natsuko Eclipse Youtube>
https://www.youtube.com/@nisshokunatsuko_official
<Solar Eclipse Natsuko X>
https://x.com/nsn58?mx=2
<Natsuko Solar Eclipse Instagram>
https://instagram.com/nisshokunatsuko_official?utm_medium=copy_link

by ldandk

Natsuko Nisshoku releases the Music Video for "Flash Bomb and Halation" from her new album, which will be released on Wednesday, May 14th!

Piano soloist Natsuko Nisshoku will release her fifth full album, Ginka, on Wednesday, May 14, 2025. The album will contain 12 tracks, and she has released the Music Video for the lead track, M1, Senkodan to Halation.

─ Natsuko Eclipse 'Flash Bomb and Halation' Music Video ─
https://youtu.be/PtMdQXOUQeA

The new album marks a new step forward for the band in their 16th year of activity. The lead track on the album is "Flash Bomb and Halation."
The sound is provided by the band members Yuki Numano (Gt), Kazuhiro Nakamata (Ba), komaki (Dr) and others of the Nisshoku CREW, who ran through the 15th anniversary project "Space Friendship" together, and the thrilling performance that literally emits a dazzling light stirs up excitement. This song is a symbol of the album, vividly depicting the protagonist who is boiling with impatience and sprinting with fighting spirit.

The music video was directed by Yuka Ueda, with whom she has worked many times before. The video is shot with a blindingly intense light, a driving piano music, and meticulous shots that accompany the powerful lyrics, capturing the intense passion hidden in the calm eyes of the singer.

The studio live broadcast held in 2024 and the unreleased song tour "Area Mirai" that formed the prototype of this work "Ginka". Natsuko Nisshoku's latest song has finally been released more than a year after it was first released. Please check it out.

─ Eclipse Natsuko comment ─
How long will I have to keep running and being chased?
How long do I have to live with this murderous aura?
I question the value of this life, which has missed its chance to become a flower that will heal a loved one.
If these feelings are to be spat out in frustration, I hope that they will at least scatter and shine as light.

▼Nishiki Natsuko "Ginka" special site
https://nisshoku-natsuko.com/iridescence-gyokuto/

▼ Eclipse Natsuko "Ginka" distribution link
https://orcd.co/_iridescence

▼Release information
Artist: Nisshoku Natsuko
Title: 5th Full Album "Ginka" (Reading: Ginka)
Release date: Wednesday, May 14, 2024

＜First limited edition/CD+DVD＞
Price: 8,500 yen (excluding tax) / 9,350 yen (including tax)
Product number: 420-LDKDV
Label: Living, Dining & Kitchen Records

＜First limited edition/CD+Blu-ray＞
Price: 10,500 yen (excluding tax) / 11,550 yen (including tax)
Product number: 421-LDKXD
Label: Living, Dining & Kitchen Records

＜Regular Edition/CD Only＞
Price: 3,500 yen (excluding tax) / 3,850 yen (including tax)
Product number: 422-LDKCD
Label: Living, Dining & Kitchen Records

Common specifications for both first press limited edition versions:
・Regular edition CD
・Three-sided case design
・Jacket card
・Unreleased Song Tour "Area Mirai" LIVE DVD/Blu-ray
・Unreleased Songs Tour "Area Mirai" Photobook

＜Contents＞
[CD]
01 Flashbang and halation
02 Wind, Flowers, Noise, City
03 Vacancy
04 julep-ment flight
05 Yatogami
06 Leeway
07 Rustyland
08i
09 0821_a (remaster ver.)
10 May Rain, Sixteen Nights, Seven Stars
11 (an unknown crew)
12 Somewhere Far Away

[DVD, Blu-ray]
Eclipse Natsuko 15th Anniversary -Space Swimming-
Unreleased Song Tour "Area Mirai" June 21, 2024 EX THEATER ROPPONGI
01 b
02k
03j
04 d
05 e
06 f
07 g
08 c
09h
10a
11 c (request)
12 f (request)
13 a (request)
・Audio commentary by Natsuko Eclipse and komaki
・Bonus footage: "Once again, a certain May night"

<Early booking benefits for both companies>
Bonus content: Commemorative certificate for purchasing "Ginka"
Target companies: Tower Records, HMV
Reception period: Saturday, March 8th, 12:00 to closing time on Sunday, March 30th (Online reservations available until 23:59)

<Pre-order bonus>
Bonus content: "Area Mirai" film-style bookmark
Reception period: March 8th (Sat) 12:00~ *Ends while stocks last

▼Tour information
Artist: Nisshoku Natsuko
Title: Release Tour "Gyoku-to" (Reading: Gyokuto)
June 22nd (Sun) Osaka | Zepp Namba (OSAKA) *SOLD OUT
June 28th (Sat) Hokkaido | Zepp Sapporo
July 6th (Sun) Miyagi | SENDAI GIGS
July 12th (Sat) Nagoya | Zepp Nagoya ※SOLD OUT
August 2nd (Saturday) Fukuoka | Zepp Fukuoka
August 11th (Monday, public holiday) Tokyo | Zepp Haneda *SOLD OUT
All performances OPEN 16:15 / START 17:00
BAND SET

Tickets on general sale now:
https://eplus.jp/nisshoku/*Only in Hokkaido, Miyagi and Fukuoka

<Natsuko Solar Eclipse Profile>
Born May 8, 1991 in Hanamaki City, Iwate Prefecture.
Started playing the piano at the age of 9 and writing songs at the age of 12. From the age of 17, she started full-scale music activities based in Morioka as "Nisshoku Natsuko". The meticulously crafted lyric world and composition techniques that sway the heartstrings have attracted attention, and have appeared in many large festivals. Released in 2021, "Anti-Freeze" was selected as a prize-winning work at the 14th CD Shop Awards 2022, and in recent years he has also written many new movie theme songs and commercial music. Nisshoku Natsuko's dense music that she creates one after another knows no bounds in creativity, and her musical ability and performance, including her unique composition style that expresses guitar, bass, and sometimes even percussion parts such as drums with a single piano, are outstanding. It goes beyond the imagination and framework of a piano-playing artist. Strength, weakness, sharpness, ephemeralness, the piano music that runs at full speed pierces the listener's heart and provides a unique musical experience.

<Natsuko Solar Eclipse Digital Distribution>
https://orcd.co/nisshoku
<Natsuko Solar Eclipse Official Website>
https://nisshoku-natsuko.com/
<Natsuko Eclipse Youtube>
https://www.youtube.com/@nisshokunatsuko_official
<Solar Eclipse Natsuko X>
https://x.com/nsn58?mx=2
<Natsuko Solar Eclipse Instagram>
https://instagram.com/nisshokunatsuko_official?utm_medium=copy_link

by ldandk

Push Pull Pot has been confirmed to participate in a compilation of "Sina Pushu", the first commercial TV show aimed at babies!

Push Pull Pot has been selected to participate in a compilation album for "Sina Pushu," the hugely popular baby program, the first of its kind on commercial television.
To coincide with the screening of the new movie "Sina Pushu THE MOVIE Pushu Hoppe Dancing PARTY" on Friday, May 16th, the compilation "Sina Pushu no Uta 6" will be released digitally.

This work includes a song written by Push Pull Pot, which recites the magic words "Pull Pull Shull Pot", which has received a great response from viewers of the program.
"Purshurpot" will also be included.
We hope you enjoy listening to the "Tsukiuta" songs written by a total of 12 artists, including Divorce Legend and MONO NO AWARE.

The song will be available from 00:00 on Wednesday, May 28th on major music distribution stores in Japan, including Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, TikTok, and Instagram.
Animations using the songs included in the album are also available on the official SinaPush program YouTube channel.

[Details]
◆ Digital distribution compilation "Sinapushu no Uta 6"
◆ Distribution date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025 00:00
◆ Songs included: 12 songs in total from January 2024 to December 2024
(Titles omitted below)
1. Bright Baby / Kiss the Gambler
2. Fanny and Funky/Divorce Legend
3. You're in the mood / Rachel (chelmico)
4. MOKEMON / MONO NO AWARE
5. Drive / Kyoko Shiina
6. Dancing on a Rainy Day / Amaiwana
7. Oh my / Suzuki Brothers
8. Sunny Sun-San / Taiyo Higuchi
9. Moon Rabbit / Waxing Moon
10. Sparkle/Yanagi Nagi
11. Push-pull pot
12. Yes!/Haku.
◆ Distribution stores: Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube Music, Amazon Music, TikTok, Instagram, and other major domestic music distribution stores

[Official YouTube channel]
China Pushch
https://youtube.com/@synapusyu?feature=shared

[Push-pull pot profile]
A four-piece rock band from Kanazawa City, Ishikawa Prefecture.
The members are vocalist and guitarist Yamaguchi Daiki, guitarist and chorusist Kuwahara Takuya, bassist and chorusist Horiuchi Kazunori, and drummer and chorusist Myojin Ryutaro.
It was formed in the university's light music club and became the current member in 2019.

In April 2021, STAY FREEEE!!!!!!!! released the first nationally distributed mini-album ``Bokura Mama de''.
In August 2023, the festival they sponsor, "Shoufuku Zessho FESTIVAL," will be held for the first time at Kanazawa EIGHT HALL.
In November 2024, they will release their 6th digital single "To You Who Live in the Present" and hold a tour at 18 locations nationwide, including Zepp Shinjuku.

The gentle yet powerful singing voice of vocalist and guitarist Yamaguchi, who also writes the lyrics and composes the music, and the band's passionate performances that touch the hearts of those in attendance have attracted a lot of attention, resulting in repeated entry restrictions at circuit festivals around the country.

Although based in Kanazawa, they perform over 100 live shows a year, and in 2024 they will appear at approximately 13 large festivals across the country, including "JAPAN JAM," "VIVA LA ROCK," and "SWEET LOVE SHOWER," steadily spreading their name across the country.

by ldandk