Daoko is a young Japanese singer and rapper who first hit the scene in 2012, at age 15, when she uploaded her songs on the video streaming site called Nico Nico Douga at the time (now it's NicoNico).
This single, a collaboration with Kenshi Yonezu, who wrote the song. Featured on her 2017 album, Thank You Blue as well as the anime Fireworks, Should We See It From The Side or The Bottom, it would go on to top the Japan Hot 100. It would go on to be the 3rd biggest hit on the 2017 Billboard Japan year-end chart.
Here's where it gets crazy.
It would also go on to be the 4th biggest hit on the 2018 Billboard Japan year-end chart.
It would also go on to be the 21th biggest hit on the 2019 Billboard Japan year-end chart.
OK, so now I'm done.
No, wait. It was the 75th biggest hit on the same chart in 2020.
In an all-time hit chart released in 2022, it was the 13th biggest Billboard Japan hit of all time.
The song is sad and beautiful at the same time, and was heralded for that dichotomy. The video is, well, anime.
Daoko isn't an anime, though. She's a real person, who really performs live, as she did in 2018.
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