The official Twitter for voice actor Hekiru Shiina, best known as Hikaru Shidou in Magic Knight Rayearth, has posted a performance clip of the anime’s opening theme song, “Yuzurenai Negai,” for her first self-cover album “HARMONY STAR.” To celebrate her voice acting debut’s 30th anniversary, the album released in Japan on May 8, 2024, and ranked ninth in Oricon’s daily album sales charts on its first day. “Yuzurenai Negai” is one of the three bonus songs for the album. She wrote on the post, “I covered it for this album. I will be singing it at my summer concerts, so let’s all get excited together!”
Heikiru Shiina made her voice acting debut in 1993. She became the first female anime voice actor who held a solo concert at Nippon Budokan in 1997 and achieved great success in the 1990s. She has released 44 singles and 16 original albums in her solo singer career.”HARMONY STAR” contains a total of 15 tracks, including 12 carefully selected representative songs of hers. The three bonus tracks are covers of anime theme songs — “Yuzurenai Negai” (Magic Knight Rayearth opening theme), “Blue Water” (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water opening theme), and “JUST COMMUNICATION” (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing first opening theme).
“HARMONY STAR” song list:
“Kaze ga Fuku Oka” (8th single / July 21, 1997)
” -Akai Hana – You’re gonna change to the flower” (13th single / August 4, 1999 / EDEN’s BOwY 2nd opening theme)
“Dameyo! Dameyo! Dameyo!” (5th single / November 21, 1996 / YAT Anshin! Uchu Ryoko ending theme)
“Kusou Metro” (from 2nd album “Respiration” / April 1, 1995)
“Me wo Samase, Otoko nara” (3rd single / April 1, 1996)
“Ganbare” (from 11th single “Konoyo de Ichiban Taisetsu na Mono” / November 26, 1998)
“246” (from the collaboration single “Hyoryusha” / November 21, 1997)
“Graduater” (9th single / January 21, 1998)
“ONE” ( from 17th album “RIGHT BESIDE YOU” / March 8, 2000)
“Sora wo Akiramenai” (4th single / July 1, 1996)
“MOTTO Sweets” (24th single / May 22, 2002)
“Tabidachi no Uta” (32nd single / October 27, 2004)
“Blue Water” (Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water opening theme)
“JUST COMMUNICATION” (Mobile Suit Gundam Wing first opening theme).
“Yuzurenai Negai” (Magic Knight Rayearth opening theme)
CD jacket
Source: Shiina Hekiru official Twitter© 2024 BOARDWALK Inc.
