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Yuna Ito; ~2nd Single Out March 1st~
Topic Started: Feb 3 2006, 09:02:44 PM (501 Views)
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I'm obsessed with Yuna Ito since SONY announced she'd be the REIRA SERIZAWA from NANA ~the movie~ so since I love her so much, I decided to make an topic on her :) I'm admin of Yuna's first and only forum~ Endless Journey! So come check out if you are interested ^_^

General Info

Yuna Ito is the new rising star in Japan's music business. The 22-year-old half Japanese, half Korean Hawaiin has debuted under the synonym of "REIRA starring YUNA ITO" with her song "Endless Story", which landed on number 2 of ORICON SINGLE RANKING. As Reira Serizawa from the most famous manga NANA, created by Ai Yazawa, Ito's idenity was kept a secret until the very last...

Yuna Ito was born on September 20th, 1983, between a Japanese father and a Korean mother. She grew up in the United States, Hawaii, and even spent her High School time there. When Yuna was little she used to sing to songs of both Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson and had always one dream: Becoming a star!

In early 2005 then Yuna auditioned for the role of charismatic vocalist Reira from TRAPNEST and eventually was chosen for the role. To make her debut even more exciting Yuna's label SONY BMG JAPAN did everything to keep any information about Yuna a secret.

When finally NANA the movie opened in Japan, people were going crazy about the wonderful, "high-pitched", voice of Yuna and the movie song "Endless Story" ended on its first day of selling on number 2 of Japan's bill-board charts. Yuna was everywhere! On magazine covers, posters and eventually had her first TV appearance on MUSIC STATION, singing with all her love "Endless Story". Even famous singer Mika Nakashima who was starring as NANA wrote a message toYuna, wishing her good luck for the performance and that she herself was sitting in front of the TV to follow her!

SONY BMG soon created a hype around Yuna and her debut song still lingers in the TOP 10 of daily and weekly rankings! She has now her own blog, writing messages to her fans and will star in NANA 2 the following year as well!!!

Her 2nd single, a double A-side, entitled "Faith/Pureyes" is set to be released on March 1st and has high expectations to take after ENDLESS STORY has nearly sold 500.000 copies by now...

Discography

1st ~ Endless Story (Realase Date: 07.09.2005)
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01. Endless Story (NANA OST)
02. Journey
03. Endless Story - Instrumental
04. Journey - Instrumental

Entered Oricon Weekly Charts at: # 2
Highest Oricon Weekly Charts position: # 2
Highest Oricon Daily Chart position: # 1
Oricon´s Yearly Chats 2005: #20
Entered/Highest position at World Charts: # 8
Sales: 438,503 (Till: 2nd February 2006)
1st @ Top 10 Love Songs on Oricon



2nd ~ Faith/Pureyes (Realase Date: 01.03.2006)
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01. Faith ("Unfair" theme song)
02. Pureyes (Bioclen Zero CM theme)
03. Faith - Instrumental
04. Pureyes - Instrumental

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3rd~ Precious (Realase Date: 03.05.2006)
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01. Precious ("LIMIT OF LOVE 海猿" theme song)
02. I'm Free
03. Secrets
04. Precious –Instrumental-

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External Links

Yuna Ito Official Site
NANA-NANA.net fansite
Endless Journey Forum
Best English Fansite
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AditZ
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AHHH! I missed the 2nd single! I'll request it in media section!

And yeah, I like this singer, both song in her 1st single rock!
She's great, in her debut, taking over 2nd position in Oricon.

One of my fave singer!
I'm very proud with the way this forum develops without me.
It's way better then when I started.
Great job to our current active admins and mods.
I can rest assured that this forum is in safe hands!
 
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the songs aren't out yet :o only a TV-Size version of "Faith" and a CM-Version of "Pureyes" :o
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ItIsHerWhoDidIt
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Ideas are bulletproof.

lol, i only know Endless Story, thanks for providing the info though
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LOVELYUNAITO
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>>CLICKY<<

Best Yuna Ito site on the net ^_^
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jojo
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*RoLLiNg StAr!*

I'm a huge fan of Ito Yuna!! Are you heard her new song "Precious"? It's a very beautiful song (specially the chorus part)! I love also Endless Story and Faith^^. If anyone want her songs, let me know and I'll upload it ^^
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Itou Yuna is AWESOME!! :)

She has such a beautiful voice, and juding by interviews, she seems like a really nice person too!! It's awesome that she is fluent in both English and Japanese. I heard that English is actually her first language!! It makes sense though, being that she grew up in Hawaii.

The cooloest part is, if you spell her name as "Yuna Itou" and you connect the two words together it spells "Yunaitou" which is the Japanese pronunciation of the word: UNITE. Isn't that so cool!?!? :thumbsup:
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jojo
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*RoLLiNg StAr!*

blue cat
Apr 30 2006, 04:01 PM
The cooloest part is, if you spell her name as "Yuna Itou" and you connect the two words together it spells "Yunaitou" which is the Japanese pronunciation of the word: UNITE. Isn't that so cool!?!?  :thumbsup:

Wow it's true! I didn't notice that^^


It's cool that she can speak both languages, and her songs has english phrases^^. And yeah in the interviews seems like she is a really cool and nice person. I'm waiting for her debut album^^
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ZiN
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YUI's ZiN :P

In conjunction with her single release today... Here's PRECIOUS
 
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Yunachan has co-written the song "Secrets" from the "Precious" Single...there's more english in it than in the others but I think her voice fits that better *_* Anyway, did anyone also see her MusicFair21 performance for "ENDLESS STORY" & "Precious"? I think her vocals have really improved since her first TV live on MUSIC STATION.

Yuna's friends from Hawaii are so nice! I've been in contact with a girl who always did Yuna's prom make-up and she says that Yuna is actually a shy person...can u believe that? I think she seems very open-minded and nice in all her interviews and live specials *_*

I'm a huge fan of hers since it was announced she should debut...and I have to say that "Precious" is her best single so far...and it debuted on #2 of ORICON Daily Single Ranking! Ganbatte Yunachan!!!

And as u guys are Yunafans, why dun join her first and biggest forum? http://www.nana-nana.net/yunaforum ^_^
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YUI Marks My Spot ^^

w0w that's fast, Zin!

This is my first post on this thread..Want to tell u guys that I'm into her as well...Sometimes I dun like singer who sings with falchett, but hers is just simply beautiful...One of the most beautiful in Japan ^^
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:o but the whole single was out 1 and a half week ago already o.o
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jojo
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Omg! She's 2nd in the ORICON daily chart! I'm so happy for her, because this single is the best!

I saw her performance in CDTV, and like DAI says, her vocals have improved. (I'll try to upload it^^)

And I'm going to join in the yunaforum^^
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YUI's ZiN :P

Do As Infinity
May 3 2006, 05:33 PM
:o but the whole single was out 1 and a half week ago already o.o

But the official release was 3rd of May...
 
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ZiN
May 5 2006, 11:52 AM
Do As Infinity
May 3 2006, 05:33 PM
:o but the whole single was out 1 and a half week ago already o.o

But the official release was 3rd of May...

XD u dun have to tell me that...I'm admin of Yuna forum XDDDDD
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