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Singing Cosplayer Hikari Covers 'Atai' with the illustration by Illustrator Tama Specially for Hikari!

Singing Cosplayer Hikari has been actively promoting Japanese culture by singing cover songs and cosplaying characters from Anime and Vocaloid. Hikari is releasing the cover song “Aitai/ I want to meet you” by Gumi to the world through both music and video distribution. This song is a Vocaloid song which was released on Nico Nico Douga in August 2010. This song is composed by Dios/Signal P and the lyrics were made by Deadman. Singing Cosplayer Hikari released a music video for the cover song “Aitai /I want to meet you” on the 30th of March this year. She wore a Japanese school uniform by LucyPop that carried a nostalgic feeling about the memories of her own school days. Which has been played over 350,000 times.

Illustrator Tama, who Singing cosplayer Hikari has been admiring since she was in junior high school, created a portrait illustration of Hikari in school uniform in 2D. She uses this beautiful illustration as her cover picture.

Singing Cosplayer Hikari’s last video of a cover song, “Yume To Hazakura” by Hatsune Miku (lyrics and music by Aoki Gekkoh) has been viewed over 1.5 million times on YouTube.

This cover song ranked in the J-POP chart on iTunes and Apple Music in 19 countries and ranked top in 8 countries. And she ranked in the top 10 on iTunes music video top song ranking on the 27th of May in Japan.

She also ranked the 6th in April and 7th in May on USEN CAN SYSTEM’s next break artists’ discovery ranking.

In addition to Hikari’s latest cover song “Aitai/ I want to meet you” and her last cover song “Yume To Hazakura”, she has also released “Soul’s Refrain” and “A Cruel Angel’s Thesis” on music streaming and downloading sites. With “Aitai/ I want to meet you” and “Yume To Hazakura” also been released on video streaming and downloading sites worldwide.

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