Best of Soul is Korean pop singer BoA's second Japanese greatest hits album. This is her first greatest hits album to contain her Japanese songs. The album was released on February 2, 2005, under Avex Trax. The album contains singles from her debut Japanese album, Listen to My Heart to her third album, Love & Honesty. It also contains two singles that were released for the album, "Quincy / Kono Yo no Shirushi" and "Meri Kuri". The album was released in two versions; the regular stranded CD version and a "perfect" version, which was packaged with a DVD that contained a few of her music videos.
"First Love" is a song by the Japanese-American singer-songwriter Hikaru Utada. It was released on April 28, 1999, as the third Japanese language single from her second studio album, First Love, which was issued a month previously. It was certified double platinum for 800,000 copies shipped to stores in Japan.
Kobukuro (コブクロ), a Japanese band, formed in 1998 and made its major label debut in 2001. The name is a portmanteau of the two family names, Kentarō Kobuchi and Shunsuke Kuroda.
Takayoshi Tanimoto, is a Japanese vocalist known for his theme song performances in Digimon, Zatch Bell! and Dragon Ball Kai, the last of which he sang "Dragon Soul" and "Yeah! Break! Care! Break!" as one-half of a special unit, Dragon Soul.
Sugar Soul was a Japanese three-member R&B group which formed in 1996. They soon made their debut in January 1997 on the Flava Records label. The members featured DJ Hasebe (programming), Aiko Machida (vocals) and Kawabe (composer). The band achieved success with the single "Garden" in 1999, which featured Kenji Furuya of Dragon Ash. The band was seen as one of the prominent new R&B-style musicians in Japan in the late 1990s.
Dragon Ball Z Game Music is a series of soundtracks of various video games based on the popular anime series Dragon Ball Z for the Famicom, Super Famicom, PlayStation, and Saturn consoles. They were produced from 1993 to 1996. Most, with some exceptions, were distributed by Forte Music Entertainment, and were released in Japan only.
"Yeah! Break! Care! Break!" is the eighth single by Japanese pop artist Takayoshi Tanimoto and the second with Takafumi Iwasaki as the unit "Dragon Soul". It was released on CD on June 24, 2009, as both a regular edition and a limited edition which included a Dragon Ball Kai Dragon Battlers trading card game card. The A-side is the first ending theme for the anime Dragon Ball Kai. The B-side is performed by Saki Oshitani, and was used as an insert song for Kai. The single remained on the Oricon charts for 8 weeks, peaking at #23. In 2010, when Kai was licensed by Funimation, they produced an English version of the ending, sung by Jerry Jewell.
Takafumi Iwasaki is a Japanese guitarist, lyricist, music arranger, and musical artist from Kumamoto Prefecture. He is signed to Columbia Music Entertainment, for which he is known for writing and performing various anime and tokusatsu theme songs. He is known for his solo performance of the theme song of Mahou Sentai Magiranger and for performing guitar for the Dragon Ball Kai theme songs "Dragon Soul" and "Yeah! Break! Care! Break!", which he also composed as one-half of a special unit, Dragon Soul. He is part of Columbia's Project.R group for Super Sentai theme songs.
Three Questions is the third studio album by Japanese electronica singer Mitsuki Aira, released on November 17, 2010, in Japan by D-Topia Universe with distribution by Universal Music Japan. The album includes songs that were previously unreleased. This is also the first album to be released under D-topia Entertainment's new label, D-Topia Universe. The promotional singles for the album were "Aishi Aisarete Ikiru no Sa" and "Why Two?". The album peaked at the number 45 position on the Oricon weekly charts, selling a total of 2,758 copies.
Kenji Yamamoto is a Japanese composer and arranger who has been responsible for producing and composing soundtracks, including opening and ending sequence themes for various anime, tokusatsu and video game projects in the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, mostly related to the Dragon Ball franchise. He has worked on soundtracks of various Dragon Ball video games.
Dragon Ball Z is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation. Part of the Dragon Ball media franchise, it is the sequel to the 1986 Dragon Ball television series and adapts the latter 325 chapters of the original Dragon Ball manga series created by Akira Toriyama. The series aired in Japan on Fuji TV from April 1989 to January 1996 and was later dubbed for broadcast in at least 81 countries worldwide.
"The Bird Without Wings" is a song by Japanese musical act Superfly. It was released as a double A-side single along with "Kagayaku Tsuki no Yō ni" on August 15, 2012. It was used as the theme song for the film Ushijima the Loan Shark.
Czecho No Republic is a Japanese band. Their album Santa Fe reached the 19th place on the Weekly Oricon Albums Chart and their singles "For You" and "Oh Yeah!!!!!!!" reached the 24th place on the Weekly Oricon Singles Chart. "Oh Yeah!!!!!!!" was also the third ending song for the second season of the Dragon Ball Kai anime television series. Their single "Forever Dreaming" is the fourth ending theme for Dragon Ball Super.
Dangerman is the second Japanese studio album by South Korean recording artist Seven. It was released on December 7, 2016, under Victor Entertainment. His first studio album in ten years since First Seven (2006), the record is meant to showcase a different perspective of the singer. Dangerman was released in three editions: Regular, Limited, and Premium Editions.
Euro Shizuka Kudo is the first and only remix album by Japanese singer Shizuka Kudo. It was released on September 20, 2000, through Pony Canyon. The EP features four of Kudo's hit songs remixed into Para Para-ready Eurobeat numbers. It was released as part of the Euro series by Pony Canyon, which only includes one other release, the EP Euro Onyanko, which gives the Eurobeat treatment to four songs by Onyanko Club. The EP was released after Kudo left Pony Canyon and moved to Extasy Japan and is not considered an official release on her side.
"Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitte Iru Itsutsu no Hōhō" is a song recorded by Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto, from the album Follow Me Up. It was released as a double A-side single alongside the song "Shikisai" by FlyingDog on January 28, 2015. The song was composed by Rasmus Faber, who also produced the track. The lyrics were written by Yuho Iwasato, marking the first collaboration between Sakamoto and Iwasato in four years, since "More Than Words". "Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitte Iru Itsutsu no Hōhō" is the opening theme to the TBS anime series Gourmet Girl Graffiti.
"Shikisai" is a song recorded by Japanese singer Maaya Sakamoto. It was released as a double A-side single alongside the song "Shiawase ni Tsuite Watashi ga Shitte Iru Itsutsu no Hōhō" by FlyingDog on January 28, 2015. The song was written by Sakamoto and composed and produced by the Japanese band La La Larks. "Shikisai" is the theme song to the Android and iOS role-playing game Fate/Grand Order. The song also serves as the theme song to the animated television film based on the game, Fate/Grand Order: First Order.
Misia Soul Jazz Session is the second extended play by Japanese singer Misia. It was released on July 26, 2017, through Ariola Japan. The album was entirely produced and arranged by Takuya Kuroda. It features reworked versions of her previous material with a soul-jazz arrangement, as well as two new songs and a cover of Kai Band's "Saigo no Yogisha", from the album Kono Yoru ni Sayonara (1977).
