Aimyon

is a Japanese singer and songwriter. Her agency is ENS Entertainment, and her label is Unborde under Warner Music Japan.

Career Aimyon was influenced to become a singer-songwriter, because her grandmother aspired to be a singer or actress, and her father is an audio engineer. She grew up with music and started writing songs when she was in middle school.

She began writing lyrics on her second year of middle school, and around the same time, her father gave her an electric guitar. However, it was not the acoustic guitar she wanted, so she quit after playing for less than a month. When she was in her third year of middle school, an English teacher who was an ALT (Assistant Language Teacher) left her an acoustic guitar when they left Japan. While she was in school, she appeared on a music program that a friend uploaded on YouTube and performed the song in public for the first time. She also made it to the final rounds of an audition that her friends had sent her application to without her knowledge. Therefore, she has not been active on the street or at live houses. However, as she wanted to "grow into an artist who will be loved for a long time rather than making a debut in a hurry", it was decided that her first release would be under an indie label as test marketing. Training including performances started.

On February 4, 2015, she debuted as a lyricist with "Time Goes By" on Johnny's West's third single "Zundoko Paradise". She made her indie debut on March 4 with the single "Anata Kaibō Jun'aika ~Shine~" (貴方解剖純愛歌 〜死ね〜), only available at Tower Records. Its extreme lyrics became a hot topic, and although TV and radio stations refrained from broadcasting, it ranked 10 on the Oricon Indies Weekly Chart. On May 20, she released her first indie mini-album tamago, which was her first nationwide distribution release; she released her second mini-album Nikumarekko Yo ni Habakaru later in December.

On February 16, 2016, Aimyon was selected by Space Shower TV as one of ten new artists expected to break out in the new future and performed at Space Shower New Force. On April 10, she had her first live performance in front of 8,000 people at the event "Coca-Cola presents unBORDE 5th Anniversary Fes 2016" commemorating the fifth anniversary of Unborde. On November 30, she released her major label debut single "Ikite Itanda yona" under Unborde. The staff at Unborde unanimously chose this song as her debut single with the theme of a high school girl's suicide.

On February 4, 2017, Aimyon released her theme song Renai Kitan Shu, used for the film Bleach. On August 2, she released her third single "Kimi wa Rock wo Kikanai", which won power play/heavy rotation in August on 42 AM/FM radio stations nationwide, setting a record after achieving it after 4 years and 3 months. On September 13, she released her first full-length album Seishun no Excitement which recorded long sales for more than two years on Oricon charts. On June 22, Aimyon held her first overseas performance with "Aimyon Tour 2018: Telephone Lobster – Additional Show 'Taiwan'" in Taipei, performing "Ikite Itanda yona" due to the popularity of Kichijōji dake ga Sumitai Machi Desuka?. Around one thousand people attended the concert. On August 8, she released her fifth single "Marigold", which recorded 1st on the streaming chart for 20 consecutive weeks. On December 31, she made her first appearance on the 69th edition of NHK's Kōhaku Uta Gassen, performed her song "Marigold". Chief producer Yoshihito Shibuya said that Aimyon was chosen because "[Marigold] is popular in distribution. It's popular with people in their 10s and 20s who are said to be 'digital natives', and this year's activity is remarkable."

On January 25, 2019, Aimyon released the theme song "Ra, no Hanashi" for the feature animation Ashita Sekai ga Owaru to Shitemo (Even if the World Ends Tomorrow). On April 17, she released her seventh single "Harunohi" which was used as the theme song for Crayon Shin-chan: Honeymoon Hurricane ~The Lost Hiroshi~. She wrote and composed "Dare ni Datte Wake ga Aru" (Everybody Has a Reason) and "Tachimachi Arashi" for the film Sayonara Kuchibiru (Goodbye Lip), which was released on May 31. The song was sung by the guitar duo Harureo, consisting of Nana Komatsu and Mugi Kadowaki, from the movie. From October, she held a hall and arena tour "Aimyon Tour 2019: Sixth Sense Story".

On July 24, 2020, she was in charge of the special program "Aimyon's All Night Nippon" on Nippon Broadcasting System.

On November 15, 2022, it was announced that she would be in charge of the theme song for serial TV novel Ranman in the first half of 2023. It was the first time a solo artist had been in charge of the theme song for a serial TV novel, and it had been seven and a half years since a singer who was born after the start of the Heisei era.

On December 8, 2024, it was announded that she would be in charge of the theme song for Doraemon: Nobita's Art World Tales, it marked the first time in 10 years since "Nobita's Space Heroes" (2015) that a female solo artist has been in charge of the theme song. She is the third artist to perform the theme songs for both the Crayon Shin-chan and Doraemon films series, following mihimaru GT and Yuzu, but it is the first time that she has first performed the theme song for Crayon Shin-chan and then the Doraemon theme song.

Aimyon will be in charge of "Ichi ni tsuite", the theme song for the July 2025 drama The 19th Medical Chart, starring Arashi's Jun Matsumoto.

Artistry Her musical influences include Spitz, Shōgo Hamada, Takuro Yoshida, Eigo Kawashima, Yutaka Ozaki, Flipper's Guitar, Kenji Ozawa, and Ken Hirai among others. She looks up to male singer-songwriters who choose words with opposite sensibility, emphasize lyrics rather than melodies, and prefers artists who are good at metaphorical expressions. Her first musical goals were similar to those of Kenji Ozawa and Flipper's Guitar.

She said that after watching the film Crayon Shin-chan: Fierceness That Invites Storm! The Adult Empire Strikes Back she was drawn to Tower of the Sun, Tarō Okamoto, Takuro Yoshida, and Betsy & Chris. Later, she sympathized with Tarō Okamoto's view of life and made it her goal to sing under the Tower of the Sun. Song production and arrangers expand the image based on lyrics written by Aimyon and the demo song played with guitar.

Voice actor Wasabi Mizuta has professed to being a fan, and Aimyon has also been spoken highly of by Yurano Ochi of Atarashii Gakko!. Both of her parents were 21 when she was born. Her favorite food is ikura, and she dislikes fish and mushrooms, the latter of which is the result of choking on it when she was little. Aimyon likes animals, and she said that she used to often visit Ueno Zoo.

Discography

Studio albums + List of studio albums, with selected chart positions, sales and certification Title Details Peak positions Sales Certifications JPN JPNComb JPNHot TWNEA Excitement of YouthReleased: September 13, 2017 Label: Unborde Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 10 10 13 —JPN: 123,000RIAJ: Gold Momentary Sixth SenseReleased: February 13, 2019 Label: Unborde Label: Lastrum Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 82 49 JPN: 10,000 Nikumarekko Yo ni HabakaruReleased: December 2, 2015 Label: Lastrum Formats: CD, digital download, streaming 106 86 JPN: 4,000 Ai o Tsutaetaida to ka Remix EPReleased: May 23, 2018 Label: Unborde Formats: digital download, 12-inch single 108 — "—" denotes items which did not chart.

Singles As lead artist