He is currently engaged in overseas activities, including performing twice overseas in one month.
Hanafu, a virtual singer affiliated with KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO/PHENOMENON RECORD, released “EAT THE PAST (English Ver.)” on Wednesday, June 11th.
“EAT THE PAST (English Ver.)” is the entire English version of “Eating the Past,” which was released on YouTube in 2019, when Hanafu’s early activities.
The song depicts people confronting their own “past” and trying to move forward by “eating” them. The lyrics, which depict the inner world of the protagonist of this song, have been loved since its release as an important song for Hanafu herself, who has been a virtual singer, and listeners who have seen it.
The English version was presented as a surprise at the first North American performance, “HAJIMEMASHITE in Anime Central,” which appeared at Hyatt Regency O’Hare in Illinois, USA on Saturday, May 17, 2025, and ecstatic to the approximately 2,000 local fans who visited.
(Click here for more information about the performance:https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000355.000106737.html)
Hanafu was also streaming “Answer (English ver.)” (original title: “Answer”) in October last year. With Japanese pop music attracting worldwide attention, please continue to keep an eye on her development as one of Japan’s leading virtual artists, as she meets the expectations of overseas.
■Hanafu “EAT THE PAST” Song information
delivery:https://phenomenon-record.lnk.to/EAT-THE-PAST-English-Ver
Lyrics, composition, arrangement: Kanzaki Iori
English translation: Electic Squid / Lachlan Johnson / Hiroki Ueda / kahoca (Empty old City)
■Hanafu Artist Profile
A virtual singer who started with “KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO.”
He made his debut in 2018 at the age of 14.
Establishes a virtual artist with a unique singing voice and worldview.
The artist collaboration in the “Suite” series has also become a hot topic, with the current number of YouTube subscribers exceeding 1 million and total views exceeding 300 million. The fanatic community of fans is expanding both domestically and internationally.
The songs he produced with Kanzaki Iori, the main composer from the early days of his activities, received high praise, and in August 2022 they held a solo live performance at Nippon Budokan, “Muslim San (Kuru).”
In January 2024, the 4th ONE-MAN LIVE “Kai-song” was held at Yoyogi First Gymnasium, which could be said to be the beginning of chapter 2, and, following Budokan, successfully performed the first arena performance, the largest virtual singer solo performance.
In 2025, overseas performances are being announced one after another, so witness this “continuation of the Juvenile” as it plunges into an unexplored world.
Official Website:https://kaf.kamitsubaki.jp/
■About KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO
It is a creative label that brings together the cutting edge of online culture together with the next generation of creators, and operates a new era of artist management business. We have created an operational structure consisting of management staff who discover and develop artists, as well as marketing staff who have the know-how to operate YouTube and social media.
We collaborate with a variety of creators and artists, including virtual singers, singer-songwriters, composers, filmmakers, story writers, illustrators, designers, and other creators and “co-create” our works together with everyone who receives them, creating new creative live shows and works, and updating the music experience itself.
Official website:https://kamitsubaki.jp/
(Operated by THINKR Co., Ltd.: https://thinkr.jp/)
