generasia:Featured article for 2021 week 45
Nanjo Yoshino
Nanjo Yoshino (南條愛乃) is a Japanese Pop singer, seiyuu, and vocalist of the duo group fripSide and the seiyuu group μ's. She is affiliated with N3 Entertainment as of January 1, 2019. Among her most popular roles is Ayase Eli from Love Live! School Idol Project series.
Nanjo's music career began in 2009 when she replaced the singer nao as the lead singer of the band fripSide. Her first song as a member of the band was "Only My Railgun", which was used as the opening theme to the anime television series Toaru Kagaku no Railgun. In 2010, she was cast in the Love Live! franchise as Ayase Eli, a member of the fictional idol group μ's, as well as a member of its sub-unit BiBi. She released her first solo mini-album Kataru More on December 12, 2012. She released her first solo single "Kimi ga Emu Yuugure" on November 27, 2013; the title song is used as the first ending theme to the 2013 anime television series Tokyo Ravens.
In 2015, she together with the other voice actresses of Love Live!, received the Best Singing Award at the 9th Seiyu Awards for best musical performance group. Meanwhile at the 13th Seiyu Awards, Nanjo won the Influencer Award, she was the first recipient of the award as it was introduced in that year. After the release of three albums and seven singles, she released two best albums simultaneously on July 18, 2018: THE MEMORIES APARTMENT -Anime-, featuring all of her singles to date as well as six covers, and THE MEMORIES APARTMENT -Original- in which fans voted for their favorite song of Nanjo's from her entire discography (singles and covers excluded).
Her twelfth solo single, "EVOLUTiON:", is released this week on November 10th.
