Singer-songwriter Otoha released a music video for her upcoming sixth major CD single song “pineapple tart” on her official YouTube channel. The song is now featured as the ending theme for the spring 2025 TV anime YAIBA: Samurai Legend, which premiered in Japan on April 6.
The video was directed by Ao Inoue, who collaborated with Otoha for the first time. The clip depicts Otoha playing acoustic guitar for the first time since her major label debut, with soft light.
Otoha “pineapple tart” Music Video
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The CD single of “pineapple tart” is set to release on May 28, 2025. Prior to the CD release, the title track is now available on digital platforms for streaming and download.
“pineapple tart” digital jacket
Otoha artist photo
Takahiro Hasui (Mob Psycho III) directs the Yaiba anime remake at WIT Studio, with series composition by Toko Machida (Kemono Michi: Rise Up), character designs and chief animation direction by Yoshimichi Kameda (Mob Psycho 100) and music by Yutaka Yamada (VINLAND SAGA) and Yoshiaki Dewa (Hell’s Paradise). The series is based on the Gosho Aoyama manga that ran from 1988 to 1993.
Viz has begun releasing English-language editions of the manga in expanded volumes, describing the story thus:
Yaiba Kurogane has spent his days training in the jungle in order to attain his goal of becoming a real samurai. By a twist of fate, he returns to Japan and starts living with the Mine family, who are connected to his father, Kenjuro. Yaiba constantly baffles the Mines’ daughter Sayaka as she witnesses his wild and reckless ways.
One day, Yaiba tags along with Sayaka to school and has a fateful encounter with Takeshi Onimaru, a kendo expert. Yaiba and Onimaru repeatedly clash, and as if in response to their search for strength, two ancient powers are unleashed: the Fujinken, the Wind God’s Sword, and the Raijinken, the Thunder God’s Sword. Both supernatural blades that have jolted the in world since ancient days have reawakened…and the truth behind them is revealed!
Sources: Otoha official YouTube channel, Press Release
