Furui Riho released her new single “Hello” on July 30. The eponymous title track on the single is the opening theme song for CITY THE ANIMATION, a new TV anime (and the first from Kyoto Animation in some time) which began airing on July 6. This is Furui Riho’s first-ever anime tie-up song. “Hello” is a brisk, exciting song whose theme is “reunion,” but it also has a lot of depth. The artist has said that she wrote the lyrics while struggling with the question of what kind of relationship she should have with the process of creating music. That’s why she made it a song with a positive message that would immediately resonate with listeners. Billboard JAPAN recently had the opportunity to talk with Furui Riho about her music.

You’ve just released your new single, “Hello,” the theme song to C

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