The official X (formerly Twitter) account for Japanese singer-songwriter and actor Gen Hoshino announced that the music video for his sixth digital single song “Comedy” has surpassed 30 million views in two years and six months since its release. The song was newly written by Hoshino as the ending theme for the first season of the SPY X FAMILY TV anime. “Comedy” was released digitally on April 8, 2022, ranking No.1 on Billboards Japan’s download song charts “Download Songs” and Oricon’s weekly digital single charts in its first week. As reported in January 2023, the song reached a milestone of 100 million streams of the song itself in 39 weeks.
Gen Hoshino “Comedy” Music Video
SPY x FAMILY Season 1 Creditless Ending Movie Featuring “Comedy”
“When I received the offer, I had just finished reading the original manga, so it felt like fate,” Hoshino said of the song on the anime’s official website. “I enjoyed reading it very much, so I was very excited to be able to write the ending theme song for this anime.” The theme of the song is “family.” He said, “The production staff gave me the message to use ‘family’ as the theme, so I wrote a song about my idea of family, keeping in mind the sense of family value that the story has. I had previously composed a song called ‘Family Song’ on the same theme, but I think I was able to create something completely different with this ‘Comedy’.” The music video for “Comedy” depicts a form of a certain “family” in which Hoshino and the mysterious creatures live together and go about their daily lives.
Gen Hoshino artist photo
Tatsuya Endo began serialization of the original SPY x FAMILY manga on Shonen Jump+ in March 2019, with 14 volumes released in Japan to date. VIZ Media releases the English version of the manga. The first season of the SPY x FAMILY TV anime aired between April and then October 2022, with the second season premiering in October 2023. Kazuhiro Furuhashi directed Season 1 at both CloverWorks and WIT Studio, with Takahiro Harada joining on for directing duties on Season 2. As previously reported, a third season is in the works.Takashi Katagiri directed the latest anime movie SPY x FAMILY CODE: White at WIT STUDIO and CloverWorks, with the original story by manga author Tatsuya Endo and screenplay by Ichiro Okouchi. The film released in Japan in December 2023, with Crunchyroll releasing the film worldwide the following April.Crunchyroll streams both seasons of the SPY x FAMILY TV anime in sub and dub formats, and describes the series:
World peace is at stake and secret agent Twilight must undergo his most difficult mission yet—pretend to be a family man. Posing as a loving husband and father, he’ll infiltrate an elite school to get close to a high-profile politician. He has the perfect cover, except his wife’s a deadly assassin and neither knows each other’s identity. But someone does, his adopted daughter who’s a telepath!
Source: Gen Hoshino official X (formerly Twitter)
