Hemenway to release new theme song for “NARUTO”

Rock band Hemenway will be releasing the new ending theme song to popular anime “NARUTO Shippuuden“. Titled, “By My Side” will be the band’s second single and release on January 25, 2012. The song will be on air starting January 5th.

Vocalist, Issac said that he is very happy that they are doing the theme song to “NARUTO” as he grew up reading manga and watching anime, and Japanese music played a huge part in his childhood.

Hemenway is also having a one-man live in Tokyo and Osaka. they will be at LIVE SQUARE 2nd LINE on March 16th in Osaka, and Shibuya O-Crest on March 30th in Tokyo.

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Kamiji Yusuke receives an original sketch from Kishimoto Masahi at “NARUTO – Blood Prison” premiere

On July 30th, singer/actor Kamiji Yusuke (32) held a meet-and-greet at the premiere event for animated movie “Gekijouban NARUTO – Blood Prison-”.

Kamiji, who sang the theme song for this film, was extremely happy and touched when NARUTO’s author Kishimoto Masahi drew him a colored illustration of Naruto. As a fan, he said, “I am really happy about this! I will definitely put this up in my house without a doubt.”

Actor Kamikawa Takaya (46), who voiced the mysterious character Maroi for the movie, was also happy to receive a drawn picture of Naruto as well. Commenting on the original manga series, Kamikawa said, “This work perfectly portrays friendship, effort, and victory – themes which its weekly magazine, ‘Shounen Jump’, focuses on.” With this, the audience gave him a big round of applause for his insight.

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Yusuke’s PV for Naruto Shippuden’s movie theme song, “Otakebi”, revealed!

Moments ago, the full PV of Yusuke’s new song, “Otakebi” (to be released on August 3rd), was unveiled to the public. As previously mentioned, this song will be used as a theme song for NARUTO’s eighth film, “Gekijouban NARUTO: Blood Prison” (to be released on July 30th).

This song features upbeat sounds and the lyrics focuses on dreams and futures. The actual PV features Yusuke running and is also quite comedic as well.

Check it out below!