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RADWIMPS Band Streams Weekly Shonen Jump Music Video
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine and the band RADWIMPS collaborated to produce a "Weekly Shonen Jump" song and music video. RADWIMPS' staff's official YouTube channel began streaming the music video on Monday. The music video features images of current Shonen Jump manga such as Eiichiro Oda's One Piece, Haruichi Furudate's Haikyu!!, and Kōhei Horikoshi's My Hero Academia.
The song's lyrics begin with:
I had a dream
of a Weekly Shonen Jump future
I was on the watch
for your tough time and my chance
The music video will be available until May 10. RADWIMPS' Ningen Kaika (Human Blooming) album, which shipped last November, included the song. Weekly Shonen Jump's editorial department listened to and approved the song before it was released.
RADWIMPS composed over 22 tracks for the soundtrack of Makoto Shinkai's anime film your name., as well as the film's theme songs "Zen Zen Zense (movie ver.)," "Sparkle," "Yume Tōrō (movie ver.)," and "Nandemo Ii ya (movie edit/movie ver.)." The soundtrack for the film ranked #1 on Oricon's album chart for two consecutive weeks. That was the first time that any of RADWIMPS' albums and singles has ranked #1 for two weeks in a row on Oricon charts, and RADWIMPS' first #1 album. The 58th Japan Record Awards announced in November that the soundtrack won its Special Award.
RADWIMPS is creating all-new English-language versions of the songs it produced for your name. that will be featured in the English-dubbed version of the film. RADWIMPS lead singer Yōjirō Noda spent part of his childhood in the United States. The film will premiere in theaters in North America on April 7.
Source: Comic Natalie
