generasia:Featured article for 2014 week 26
Aimer
Aimer (エメ) is a Japanese pop singer-songwriter signed to DefSTAR RECORDS and managed by FOURseam. She made her major debut in September of 2011 with the single "Rokutosei no Yoru / Kanashimi wa Aurora ni / TWINKLE TWINKLE LITTLE STAR".
Aimer released her second single "Re:pray / Sabishikute Nemurenai Yoru wa" on December 14, 2011. The song "Re:pray" was chosen as the ending theme for the anime "Bleach." Her third single "Yuki no Furu Machi / Fuyu no Diamond," released February 22, 2012, had the theme of "winter" on all the tracks. On August 15, Aimer released her fourth single, "Anata ni Deawa Nakereba ~Kasetsu Toka~ / Hoshikuzu Venus", which included the song "Anata ni Deawa Nakereba ~Kasetsu Toka~" used as the ending song of the anime series "Natsuyuki Rendezvous."
On March 20, 2013, Aimer released the single "RE: I AM EP", which was used as the ending theme for the penultimate episode of "Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn." According to an interview, the song title "is an anagram of [her] name (Aimer), and has the meaning of breaking down a word and constructing it into another."
Aimer's second album Midnight Sun as well as her collaboration album UnChild with SawanoHiroyuki[nZk] will be released simultaneously this week on June 25, 2014.
