FAKY Takes Fans Hands with Latest Release!

“Take My Hand” Jacket Cover

“Take My Hand” Jacket Cover

FAKY has released their latest single “Take My Hand” as the theme song for Akuma to Love Song, which is Hulu Japan’s new live-action drama series based on the popular manga of the same name.  

“I have been listening to FAKY’s songs frequently for a few years. Especially, the song ‘Who We Are’ is a powerful song for me. When I prepared the live-action drama ‘A Devil and Her Love Song,’ I had already decided in my mind that I would offer FAKY for the theme song. That was because this drama’s theme completely matches FAKY, who sings with ‘the passion that never afraid of standing by oneself.’ We had a chance to listen to ‘Take My Hand’ at the first meeting and everyone from the director to the staff in that room felt like, ‘This is it!’ and agreed to use this song. The director loved this song and immediately shared it with the Camara staff and main clues. As a result, the visual of ‘A Devil and Her Love Song’ is very influenced by the mood of this song. We’d like you to enjoy the matching of the drama and the music.” - Tetsuya Ono, the Producer of Akuma to Love Song 

FAKY’s latest single, “Take My Hand,” is a cheerful song that gives you the courage to take a step forward and reflects the main heroine, played by Nana Asakawa, characteristics. The lyrics were written by FAKY’s leader, Lil’ Fang, who also wrote the group’s previous single, “HappyEverAfter,” which has been released on April 26th. 

“I have been a fan of the original comic of ‘A Devil and Her Love Song.’  I got an impression from each character who has strugglings but they eventually found their identities and the places where they belong. So I put the words ‘hold hands’ to cheer them up into the lyrics of ‘Take My Hand’. We particularly focused on mastering the song adding the live strings to make it epic so that we could express the sense of the scall that its music has. Also, we recorded the verse part individually one sentence each as it goes like relaying the voice baton to express the concept of this song. I want you to check on that. ‘Take My Hand’ is a sing-along friendly song for both boys and girls so that’ll be great if you could sing together like the characters at Tozuka Minami High School students.”

- Lil’ Fang, Leader of FAKY

Since the start of the year, FAKY have been making many headlines including being featured on, ET Canada, NYLON, an interview with Kevan Kenney (MTV and Radio.com), and Billboard Japan to name a few. FAKY has seen a consistent rise in their streams this year. The music video for their recent single, “99,” which was selected as the OST from popular Japanese drama Rika-Reverse, along with the music video for “The Light” hit over a million views shortly after they were released. This was followed by their music video for “little more” also crossing the million view mark and “half-moon” getting over 3 million views. The FAKY members and their team have no plans of slowing down and are planning to be releasing more new content for their fans throughout the rest of 2021. 

Be sure to check out the music video for “Take My Hand” below, along with the streaming link for the track here!

Hump Back Comes Back with A Chatter For Upcoming Album!

Three-member female rock band Hump Back announced that they will be releasing a brand new album, ACHATTER, August 4. This will be the latest release by the girls since their single “Teenage Sunset” back in August of last year and will be their second full-length album. This work contains a total of 14 songs, all tracks—except “閃光” (”Senkou”), a song included on "Teenage Sunset"—newly recorded. The album will drop with only a CD-only standard edition. In addition, Hump Back will hold a one-man live tour, Hump Back pre. ACHATTER tour, to commemorate the album release from September. If you reserve an album CD at the target store within the time period, you will receive "Hump Back Chopsticks" in addition to the lottery application ticket for the release tour.

As we look forward to the upcoming release be sure to check out the music video for “Teenage Sunset” along with the pre-order links for ACHATTER below!

Standard edition

Hump Back「ACHATTER」

01 .宣誓

02. 番狂わせ

03. プレイリスト

04. スリーピース

05. 新しい朝

06. あいまい

07. ヘイべビ

08. ひまつぶし

09. きみは春

10. 閃光

11. HIRO

12. 遊覧船

13. マイユー

14. きれいなもの

Takuma Terashima Breaks Out With Upcoming Single!

Popular voice actor-turned-vocalist Takuma Terashima announced that he will be releasing a brand new single, “Reincarnate”, August 25. This will be the latest release by the vocalist since his album ASSEMBLE back in March of last year and will be his eleventh single overall. The track is currently being used as the ending theme song for the popular fantasy animeThat Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime (Season 2), which Terashima also stars in. The lyrics were written by Terashima himself and the composition and arrangement were done by R ・ O ・ N. The coupling will include the theme song "Phantom Lights" for the series’ smartphone game app scheduled to be released in 2021. The single will drop with two editions: a CD-only standard edition and a limited edition which will come with a bonus Blu-ray. 

As we look forward to the upcoming release be sure to check out a preview for Terashima’s track “UNBREAKABLE” along with the pre-order links for “Reincarnate” below!

Standard edition

Limited edition

Takuma Terashima「Reincarnate」

・Reincarnate

・ファントムライツ

(Along with other coupling songs)

MY FIRST STORY Brings Confession With Upcoming Single!

Four-member rock band MY FIRST STORY announced that they will be releasing a brand new single, “告白” (“Kokuhaku”), July 14. This will be the latest release by the band since their digital single “LEADER” back in January and will be their eighth single overall. The work will come with a CD-only standard edition and, in addition, it will come with three tracks including the coupling song “I’m a mess" and a cover of vocalist Eve's popular tune "廻廻奇譚” (“Kaikai Kitan”).

As we look forward the upcoming release be sure to check out their latest music video for “Underground” along with the pre-order link for “Kokuhaku” below!

Standard edition 


“Kokuhaku” Jacket Cover

“Kokuhaku” Jacket Cover

MY FIRST STORY「Kokuhaku」

01. 告白

02. I'm a mess

03. 廻廻奇譚(cover)

SCANDAL Bring a New Shade of Ivory with Latest Music Video!

“Ivory” Jacket Cover

“Ivory” Jacket Cover

Popular four-member pop-rock band SCANDAL has released the video to new single “Ivory” today – the band's second single of their 15th anniversary year! The two-track single is available to download / stream.

SCANDAL has reached legendary status in Japan where all nine of their studio albums have ranked in the charts at position five or higher. This latest single is written, composed and sung by SCANDAL's powerful guitarist MAMI, and co-arranged by the musician Kohei Munemoto (KAT-TUN, KinKi Kids, Mika Nakashima), and also features an acoustic version of the track performed entirely by MAMI.

“Ivory” music video, which features MAMI playing guitar in a bathtub in the middle of a skate park, was directed by Yuki Wakisaka. The movie director, cinematographer and photographer has worked with numerous artists (including PassCode's 'ONE STEP BEYOND', MAN WITH A MISSION's “Change the World”, and TK from Ling tosite sigure's “copy light”) and captures SCANDAL as their most natural, current selves.

The cover art for the single and cassette also sees the return of art director Junya Handa, who also worked on prior single “eternal”.

To celebrate the release, our friend at JPU Records has released a special edition tape cassette featuring both versions of the track, as well as a translation and transliteration of the lyrics. This edition is limited strictly to 100 copies and will not be re-pressed. It’s available to order today while stock lasts. It’s best to order quick as the previous single sold out fast. 

SCANDAL's latest album Kiss from the darkness is also available from JPU Records on CD with English lyric translations and Romaji. The limited edition bundle with an English printed copy of SCANDAL's magazine her is also available while stocks last.

SCANDAL's postponed world tour is still planned to go ahead later this year.

Be sure to check out the music video in question below!