Hikaru Utada

Hikaru Utada releasing vinyl version of all albums, pop-up store opening in Shibuya

Nightly Hikaru Mix DJ events to stream online.

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Utada Hikaru announces new album, streaming concert

J-pop megastar’s new album is available for pre-order now, will include themes from Evangelion and To Your Eternity anime.

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Japanese-American singer Hikaru Utada opens a discussion on racism on Japanese Twitter

The singer hopes that this will be a turning point for racial issues in America. 

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Hikaru Utada previews new song as she hikes through the achingly beautiful Japan Alps【Video】

J-pop megastar returns to the central Japan mountain range with “Dare ni mo Iwanai” (“I Won’t Tell Anybody”).

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Final Evangelion movie coming in December, claims quote from Japanese magazine

Depending on how you do the math, anime fans have now been waiting somewhere between three and 20 years for the upcoming, and supposedly final, Evangelion movie. The franchise began as a TV series in 1995, with its most recent installment, the third film in the Rebuild of Evangelion reboot and/or sequel, having debuted in Japanese theaters in 2012.

A release date has yet to be officially announced for the fourth Rebuild movie, but a weekly Japanese news magazine recently published a quote from an industry insider who claims he knows when the last Eva film is finally coming out.

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New video for Hikaru Utada’s ‘Beautiful World’ is a slice of Evangelion awesomeness【Video】

Hikaru Utada’s anniversary cover album is out next week, and to celebrate, Evangelion co-director Kazuya Tsurumaki has made this music video for the Japanese American artist’s song ‘Beautiful World’.

The resulting video is made of beautifully spliced-together Evangelion clips, and it fits Utada’s track perfectly.

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