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; joining the group in 2005. She has performed a number of theme songs for anime television series including '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle'', ''

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'' and ''

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''; and for video games by

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Biography

In 2005, Oda became involved in a music project called Harajuku BJ Girls, later named Chix Chicks. She also started collaborating with

under the project name FictionJunction Kaori. She sang on the insert songs "Tsubasa" and "Dream Scape" for the anime television series '' Tsubasa: Reservoir Chronicle''. As part of

, she has been a regular vocalist on their albums and concerts, and attended Anime Expo 2012 in the US as part of the group. She also joined the Japanese fantasy music group

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in 2006 and sang in their hit single "Shonen wa Tsurugi wo..." as well as tracks on their story CD albums ''

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'' and '' Moira''. In 2007, she had her solo debut with the single "Brilliant World", which was the theme song for the video game ''

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''. Her second single, "Calling", was used as an ending theme to the anime television series ''

'' In 2011, she announced she had graduated from university. She joined TEAM Entertainment in 2012. Her first solo album. ''Place'', released in February 6, 2013, includes songs since "Brilliant World" as well as original works. She held her first solo live concert on April 14. Her third single, "Akatsuki no Butterfly", released in 2013, was used in the ''Amnesia'' video game series title ''Amnesia Crowd''. Her fourth single, "Reverberation" was used for ''Amnesia V Edition''. Her fifth single, "Hana wa Utsutsu ni", was used as a theme song for the video game ''Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu''. Her second album, ''Colors'', was released in 2014 and reached No. 58 on the Oricon charts. She promoted the album by hosting a radio show called ''Colorful Mode''

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's A&G Artist Zone network. Oda released her sixth single "Tsuiso Kanon" later in 2014, and that contained more ''Amnesia'' theme songs including for ''Amnesia World''. She performed at

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2014, an anime convention in Germany. In 2015, she released her seventh single "Futari Ayatori" which was used for the video game ''Shinobi, Koi Utsutsu -Setsugetsuka Koi Emaki''. Her single "Zero Tokei", released February 10, 2016, was used as the theme song for the ''

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'' anime television series. She released her third album, ''Make It'', in April, and held her 9th solo live concert in August. In September, she joined fellow Sound Horizon vocalist

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on the latter's 10th Anniversary Live Tour in Taiwan. Her single "Mugen no Dystopia" was released in 2016 and was the theme song for a smartphone video game ''Yodohoshi Dystopia''. Her singles "Theatrium", "Run-Limit" were used as a character CDs of the similarly named series. She released her fourth album, ''Gift'' in 2017. and also had a 10th anniversary concert called ''10th Birthday Solo Live''. On radio, she promoted her works on the A&G Artist Zone show. In 2018, she released several songs "Suibi", "Towa no Yakusoku", and "Utakata", which were used in the Otomate video game ''Tensei ni mai, Sui na Hana''. She released her compilation album ''The Best -Replay-'' which peaked at No. 66 on Oricon. On September 20, 2018, Oda announced on her Lineblog that she left the Space Craft agency, having been with them for 20 years including her time with Tokyo Children's Theater Company. She sang the ending theme for the fifth ''

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'' OVA series that was released in 2020. She also released her fifth solo album, ''Flowers'', which reached No. 100 on Oricon.

Discography

Solo singles

Solo albums

Compilation albums

References

External links

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Kaori Oda profile
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Kaori Oda profile
at Space Craft (archive) {{Authority control Living people Japanese women pop singers 21st-century Japanese singers Anime singers Yuki Kajiura 21st-century Japanese women singers Year of birth missing (living people)