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UTAITE

歌い手

A Japanese term for people who cover previously released songs and post them on Nico Nico Douga under the utattemita category. The term “utaite” is unique to Nico Nico Douga singers, making it different from “kashu” (歌手 kashu), which means “singer” in general.Generally, utaite do cover songs for Vocaloid original songs, anime and game related songs, and J-Pops. They also do parodies with different lyrics for popular songs, intended for amusement

AFTER THE RAIN

SYOUNEN T

MAFUMAFU URASHIMA SAKATASEN

SORARU LUZ

After the Rain

After the Rain is a Japanese male musical duo group consists of two members: Soraru and Mafu mafu. The group abbreviation is mainly AtR.

A unit consisting of singer/creator ‘Soraru’ and ‘Mafumafu’ who have gained overwhelm ing support in the internet music scene. They started their activities from the 2014 album “After Rain Quest”, and their populari ty immediately caught fire, and the 2nd al bum “Prerhythm Arch” announced in 2015 the following year swept the top of the charts at specialty stores and became a big hit.

In 2016, he started activities as After the Rain, and the album “Clock Crest Story” released in April ranked second in the Oricon Week ly Chart. In July, he held a concert “After the Rain Ryogoku Kokugikan 2016 ~Morning Glow After Glow~” and attracted 12,000 fans.

In 2017, he released his first singles “An ti-Clockwise” and “Kaidoku Funou.” Despite the feat of releasing two double tie-ups at the same time, it ranked 3rd and 4th on the Oricon Weekly (1st and 2nd on the daily), and in August of the same year, “After the Rain Nippon Budokan 2017 - Clockwise / An ti-Clockwise” -” was carried out, and 26,000 people were mobilized.

The annual winter tour will be held in Decem ber, and the growth of new pop icons contin ues to accelerate.

Mafu

Mafu

Mafumafu (born 18 October 1991) is a Japanese singer. In addition to his solo work, he is a vocalist, lyricist and composer in the music duo After the Rain formed with fellow utaite singer Soraru. Mafumafu is also popularly known as Nandemoya (Jap anese: 何でも屋, lit. Jack of all trades). His broad vocal range, spanning well over five octaves, allows him to sing in a high register comparable to some Vocaloid songs; with some covers, he has also ad opted the name Manunchan for his “female persona”, who has an even higher voice. His image color is white. His 2D image has a signature ap pearance of white hair and a barcode on his left cheek. His youtube channel has over 3 million subscribers. His videos have over 1.6 billion

combined views.

Mafumafu plays guitar and piano. He covers Vocaloid songs from other creators as well as performing his own original songs. He also pro duces music for games, an ime, and other artists.

On 5 June 2022, Mafumafu announced on Twitter that after his solo live concerts on 11 and 12 June in the Tokyo Dome, he would go on an in definite hiatus from all per sonal musical activities as Mafumafu for the first time in 11 years, citing his medi cal condition. He will remain active as a musician to pro duce music for other artists, as well as continue to partici pate in group collaborations.

Soraru

Soraru (Born 3 November 1988 in Miyagi Pre fecture). The origin of his name is from the word Sora because he likes to look at the sky

He is a Vocalist, composer, lyricist, and sound engineer.

In 2008, he started his activities on the video posting site, and the total number of videos has surpassed 3 billion views. The number of Twitter followers exceeds 162 million, and the number of subscribers of the LINE official account is 88 million, an artist active mainly in the internet scene.

On June 2012, he released his 1st album “Soraai”, and recorded 7th place in the Oricon weekly ranking.

On April 2015, he released the “Yuudamari no Shiori”, Oricon weekly ranking 10th place. Currently, while performing activities as a unit “After the Rain” with Mafumafu, he also creates CDs of his own production, and re leases it at a pace of about 1 sheet a year.

In November 2017, the tour including the first

Yokohama Arena as a solo activity “SORARU LIVE TOUR 2017 ~Yumemiru Sekai no Aruk kata~” was dared to record all performances sold out.

On 22 July 2018, he entered his 10th anniver sary as a solo artist, and released his first LIVE DVD “Yumemiru Sekai no Arukikata SORARU LIVE TOUR 2017” on the same day. On November 28th of the same year, he re leased his first solo single “Gin no Kisei”. he was in charge of the ending theme for the TV anime “Goblin Slayer”. Recorded 2nd place in the Oricon Weekly Ranking.

2nd Single “Eureka” was released on March 6, 2019. He is in charge of the opening theme for the MBS/TBS drama “Yuube wa Otanoshimi Deshita ne”. Starting March 10th, they held a 6 major city tour “SORARU LIVE TOUR 2019 -10th Anniversary Parade-” including 2 days at Makuhari Messe, mobilizing 35,000 people and recording all sold out performances. And the latest album “Wonder” containing the theme song “I Fake Me” of “Movie Kakegurui”

Syounen T

Syounen T (少年 Ｔ) is an utaite known for his acoustic arrangements, which he uses in his covers and also makes for other singers to use.

He has a soft and light sounding voice which goes well with his arrangements; however, his voice can also fit in other genres.

He also has a younger broth er who goes by the name Malon/Maron (マロン), who uploads dance cover videos on Nico Nico Douga.

The “T” in his stage name stands for his real name, Tomohisa. Because of this, many fans also call him T-kun.

On March 28, 2012 he de buted as Sako Tomohisa, under the music label Sony Music Entertainment, with the release of his single “Ai Kotoba”.

He sang the opening song of Kimi to Boku 2, which started airing April 2012; and the second ending theme of Zetsuen no Tempest, “Bokutachi no Uta” (Our Song). He also sang the opening theme of Da karetai Otoko 1-i ni Odosarete Imasu, “Fukanzen Mono logue” (Incomplete Mono logue), composing the song with Mafumafu.

UraShima SakataSen

Urashimasakatasen is a male Japanese music group consisting of four members, Uratanuki, Shima, Tonari no Sakata (Aho no Sakata) and Senra. The group’s name was created from a combination of the members’ names. They are mainly active on YouTube.

The band formed in 2013; they began by posting sing ing videos on video sites. In 2015, they made their CD debut with the release of the mini album Hajimari no Aizu (はじまりの合図). In 2016, they

released the album Cruise Ticket from music label JVCK enwood Victor Entertainment and made a major debut. The 5th (3rd major) album V-enus released in 2018, The albums both topped the Oricon and Billboard Japan music charts. In 2019, they won a gold disc with the album $HUFFLE, and their newest release L∞VE (2021) topped the Oricon a few days after its initial release.

Luz

luz is an artist that cut his teeth in the social music scene. He started uploading videos as a singer (utaite) in 2010 on niconico and now he has over 820,000 followers on Twitter and 610,000 subscribers on YouTube. He’s also part of the creative group “Royal Scandal” together with illustrator/video producer RAHWIA and VOCALOID producer KANON69. From 2015 onward, luz has been organizing regular live concert events called “XYZ TOUR” that had seen steady growth until finally in September 2019, he hosted an incredible blowout event in Kanagawa at the Yokohama Arena. Celebrating the 11th anniversary since he began, luz performed throughout Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka in July 2021 after a 2-year break for his “luz 5th TOUR -ELEVEN-” event. Without missing a beat, he went on to release his first new album in 4 years on October 27th, 2021, called “FAITH.” He closed out a wildly successful year by going on a national 7 city tour titled “luz 6th TOUR -FAITH-” in December to accompany the album release.

Amatsuki

Since 2010, he has been posting videos on video sharing sites, and his high-pitched, boyish singing voice has a re freshing yet sweet charm. capture people’s hearts. In addition, he has conducted a nationwide LIVE tour that he himself planned, and has expanded his range of activities such as theater and recitation dramas, expanding his fan base not only in Japan but also overseas, and is receiving a series of offers to perform at events both in Japan and over seas.

Amatsuki is known to be close friends with Hashiyan, Sha muon, Kony, and Yuuto. He often holds lives with Kony, such as he when he held a live to announce a collaboration album, Colorful Mic. He is very good friends with Hashiyan, and they often hang out at each other’s houses and go on trips to gether. When he hangs out with Kony and Shamuon, they are known as “Shamukonytsuki”.

Amatsuki is also close friends with Mafumafu, Soraru, Itou Kashitarou, and 96Neko. Some days Mafumafu would go to the gym with Amatsuki to hang out with him but usually Amatsuki would do the actual exercising while Mafuma fu would be playing around in the gym. Although they have known each other for 5 years, Amatsuki and Soraru have just recently begun collaborating. Itou Kashitarou and Amatsuki are seen around each other quite a lot, and they have formed multiple units together (such as Circle of Friends and Ama tou Kashitsuki). 96Neko and Amatsuki have collabed to do a radio talk show named “96tsuki no Wagamama Radio,” where they talk about various topics and invite guests. The two also play APEX together.

After 2 self-produced msuic albums, Eve released the national distribution board album <OFFICIAL NUMBER>.

The indie album <Culture> re leased on December 13, 2017 was his first all-self-com posed songs, <Dramaturgy> <As You Like It> which was included in this album, has exceeded 100 mil lion plays.

The number of YouTube sub scribers exceeds 4 million.

The one-man live shows in 2018, 2019 including the <winter tour 2019-2020 tur bulent dining table> mobi lized 12,000 people, The tickets were sold out im mediately.

On February 6, 2019, the

Eve

Album <Otogi> was released, <Smile> released on February 12, 2020 won the 2nd place on the Oricon album chart, and <Kaikaiki tan / Aono Waltz> released on December 23, 2020 won the 1st place, and the record ed song “Kaikai Kitan” ex ceeded 300 million the streaming, and YouTube exceeded 250 million playbacks.

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