Akari Nanawo
Akari Nanawo is a Japanese musician and YouTuber from Osaka who is signed to Sony Music Associated Records. Starting her career as an independent musician in 2011, Akari gained a following performing at various live houses in Japan, as well as through uploading songs on the website Niconico. She was also cast in a stage play adaptation of the mobile game Fate/Grand Order. She made her major debut in 2018, performing the opening theme to the anime television series Happy Sugar Life. She released her first full album in October of that year.
Early life and career
Akari was born in Osaka on November 12, 1995. She had been interested in music for much of her life, and in junior high school, she primarily listened to anison and Vocaloid music. In particular, she had become a major fan of the dōjin music producer Deco*27. She was inspired to become a singer after listening to the music of Bump of Chicken and discovering YouTube.Akari made her debut as a singer in 2011, performing in an indie band which held live shows throughout Japan. After the band broke up, she pursued a solo career. In 2014, Akari beat over 5000 others who had participated in an audition held by Sony Music Artists In 2016, she began uploading dōjin music on the Japanese video-sharing website Niconico. She also became a co-host of a radio program titled Rock Brothers. She quickly gained a following on Niconico: as of March 2018, her videos had been viewed at least 9 million times. She also began collaborating with other dōjin artists for her songs, including DECO*27. In 2017, she was cast as the character Mash Kyrielight in a stage play adaptation of the mobile game Fate/Grand Order. She released a mini-album titled Nekuraroido no Tsukuri Kata in July of that year.
During a live performance in Tokyo, in March 2018, Akari announced that she would make her major debut under Sony Music later that year. Her first single, "One Room Sugar Life/Nantoka Narukunai?/Ai no Uta Nante" was released on August 22, 2018; the song "One Room Sugar Life" is used as the opening theme to the anime television series Happy Sugar Life. The single peaked at #33 on Oricon's weekly charts and charted for nine weeks. She released her first major album Flying Best: Shiranaino? Chimata de Uwasa no Dame Tenshi on October 3, 2018. Her second major single, "Turing Love feat. Sou/Piyo" was released on February 5, 2020; the title song is used as the ending theme to the anime television series Science Fell in Love, So I Tried to Prove It. Her third major single "Higher's High" was released on October 21, 2020; the title song is used as the opening theme to the anime television series Warlords of Sigrdrifa.
In 2022, she had her first overseas performance at Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2022.