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"Idol" (Japanese: アイドル, Hepburn: Aidoru) is a song by Japanese duo Yoasobi from their third EP, The Book 3 (2023). It was released as a single on April 12, 2023, by Sony Music Entertainment Japan, serving as the opening theme to the first season of the 2023 Japanese anime series Oshi no Ko.
The anime series also won the Grand Prize at Japan's Internet Buzzword Awards. [100] At the 8th Crunchyroll Anime Awards in 2024, Yoasobi's "Idol" won the award for Best Anime Song while the anime series was nominated for eleven other categories including Anime of the Year. [101]
Yoasobi released their first two extended plays in 2021—The Book and The Book 2—with the concept of a "reading CD" with a binder package. [1] [2] The EPs peaked at number two on the Oricon Albums Chart, [3] [4] In 2021, the duo collaborated with Naoki Prize-winning four novelists Rio Shimamoto, Mizuki Tsujimura, Miyuki Miyabe, and Eto Mori for the short story collection Hajimete no ...
The main characters of Oshi no Ko as depicted in the second season of the anime adaptation. From left to right: Kana Arima, Aqua Hoshino, Ruby Hoshino and Akane Kurokawa. The Oshi no Ko manga series features an extensive cast of characters created by Aka Akasaka. The story follows a doctor and his recently deceased patient are reborn as twins ...
[2] [3] From May 2023 to February 2024, the duo released four English-language singles: "Idol", an opening theme for the anime series Oshi no Ko (2023); [4] "Biri-Biri", a collaboration for the first anniversary of role-playing video games Pokémon Scarlet and Violet; [5] "The Brave" ("Yūsha"), the first opening theme for the anime series ...
Yoasobi [A] is a Japanese pop duo formed in 2019. It consists of musician and record producer Ayase and singer-songwriter Lilas Ikuta, under the moniker Ikura.With the slogan "novel into music", the duo originally released songs based on selected short stories posted on Monogatary.com [], a social media website for creative writing operated by Sony Music Entertainment Japan.
"Idol" was an immediate commercial success in Japan and worldwide, topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100 for 22 weeks (21 were consecutive), [5] becoming the longest-running number-one song in the chart history, [6] and the best-performing song of 2023.
In January 2024, an anime adaption of two sagas of light novel series Monogatari—"Off" and "Monster" seasons—was announced, set to premiere in the same year. [2] Later, on May 1, the official website of the anime series teased the upcoming announcement by countdown with an image of the letter "Y" on a red-pink background, as well as posted the image by the official X (formerly Twitter ...