The official YouTube channel for voice actor Rikako Aida, best known as Riko Sakurauchi in Love Live! Sunshine!!, started streaming a music video for her new song “Is this love?” The song is now featured as the second ending theme for the winter 2025 TV anime Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms, where she is also cast as Tsubomi Haruno’s older sister.
Rikako Aida “Is this love?” Music Video
Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms
Creditless Ending 2 Video
While performing as a member of the Love Live! Sunshine!! franchise’s nine-member unit Aqours, Aida made her solo singer debut from DMM.com and A-Sketch’s music label DMM music in March 2019, releasing one CD single, two digital singles, one mini-album, one full album, three EPs and two live concert DVD/Blu-rays to date.Her comments about “Is this love?” on her official website reads: “The song ‘Is this love?’ is littered with lyrics that evoke the state of mind of the main character, Mona Kawai-chan. This is the cutest and most adorable song about the strong side of her, ‘I’m so cute, how can you not see me?’ and the feelings of a girl in love! Please enjoy the song along with the anime!”“Is this love?” released digitally on February 18, 2025, and will also be included in her upcoming fourth EP “Soushoku” (“Decoration”) to release in Japan on March 26.
“Is This Love?” digital jacket
“Soushoku” CD jacket
The TV anime adaptation of Ran Kuze’s romantic comedy manga series Medaka Kuroiwa Is Impervious to My Charms premiered in Japan on January 6, 2025. Crunchyroll is streaming the series for members in North America, Central America, South America, Europe, Africa, Oceania, the Middle East and CIS.Crunchyroll describes the series as such:
For Mona Kawai, winning hearts and turning heads comes naturally. Everything changes when Medaka Kuroiwa, a new transfer student, arrives. He won’t even give Mona a second look, and it turns her life upside down! Mona tries everything she can to win Medaka over, even going to the extreme at times. Tune in to a new rom-com about a queen bee and an unfazed boy among the school’s halls.
Source: Rikako Aida official YouTube channel / website
