FripSide
Japanese pop and trance duo
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::summary Japanese pop and trance duo ::
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| Field | Value |
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| name | fripSide |
| image | FripSide Logo.jpg |
| caption | Official logo |
| landscape | yes |
| origin | Japan |
| genre | J-pop, trance, synth-pop, pop rock |
| years_active | 2002–present |
| label | |
| website | |
| current_members | |
| past_members | |
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| name = fripSide | image = FripSide Logo.jpg | caption = Official logo | landscape = yes | alias = | origin = Japan | genre = J-pop, trance, synth-pop, pop rock | years_active = 2002–present | label = | associated_acts = | website = | current_members = | past_members = fripSide is a Japanese pop and trance duo originally formed by composer Satoshi Yaginuma (Sat) and singer Nao in February 2002.
History
In a 2008 interview, Satoshi said that he was a fan of TM Network and its member Tetsuya Komuro in his elementary and junior high school days and began to produce his music at the age of 14.
When the group started, they were releasing their songs on the Japanese amateur and indie community, Muzie. fripSide's albums were always high in sales at Muzie's online CD shop. As of July 2006, more than 6,000 copies of the three original albums have been sold.
They officially became a part of Visual Arts in 2006. They released their works under elseena-music entertainment and many of their songs were created for Visual Arts' games, as well as other erotic game companies. In addition, fripSide had a side group, called "fripSide NAO Project" which started on March 30, 2007. fripSide NAO Project released songs different from the usual style of fripSide, and did not follow fripSide's motto of "creating songs that everyone can relate to". One album and one single were released under fripSide NAO project.
On March 15, 2009, Nao stated on the fripSide Official Website that she had graduated from fripSide. Sat and Nao want to pursue different musical careers, as Nao intends to pursue a solo singing career. Meanwhile, Sat will continue in fripSide with a new project called, fripside: THE NEXT PROJECT.
Voice actress Yoshino Nanjō replaced Nao as the new lead singer of fripSide. They re-debuted under the record label Geneon Universal Entertainment with single "Only My Railgun", the opening theme to the anime series A Certain Scientific Railgun, on November 4, 2009. The single debuted at the number-three position on the Japanese Oricon weekly single charts with the first week sales of about 26,000 copies, which was higher than the position of single "Flower of Bravery" (No. 26) in 2008. On May 8, 2013, fripSide release their 6th single, "Sister's Noise" which was used as the first opening theme for A Certain Scientific Railgun S and was their first-ever to reach #1 spot single in the weekly charts, #9 on the monthly charts, with 42,632 units sold for May beating Uta-Pri Maji Love 2000% Idol Song Singles.
On August 21, 2013, fripSide released their 7th single, "Eternal Reality" which was used as the second opening theme for A Certain Scientific Railgun S. The single was made in collaboration with Tetsuya Komuro for its composition and arrangement and was released into 3 editions, the Regular (CD only), Limited (CD+DVD edition) and Anime editions.
During the fripSide Announcement Special livestream on October 31, 2021, Nanjō announced her retirement from fripSide. She still performed with Yaginuma in a virtual concert on January 8, 2022, and will join him again at a concert tour in April.
On April 24, 2022, the fripSide Phase 2 Final Arena Tour ended with the announcement of Phase 3's two new singers, Mao Uesugi and Hisayo Abe. Phase 2 singer, Yoshino Nanjo, performed "infinite synthesis" then was joined by Phase 3's singers during the song. The emcee then introduced the duo before they performed their debut song "dawn of infinity", which premiered as the opening theme to the anime series The Dawn of the Witch on April 8. The single was released on May 18.
Members
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Fripside_at_Anime_Festival_Asia_2012_Stage_(cropped).jpg" caption="Fripside at Anime Festival Asia 2012.
from left to right : Yoshino Nanjō, Satoshi Yaginuma."]
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Main members
- Satoshi Yaginuma (nickname "Sat") (composer, arrangement, vocals, lyrics, synthesizer, guitar, programming)
- Mao Uesugi (vocals, lyrics) – announced as one of the two lead singers of fripSide on April 24, 2022.
- Hisayo Abe (vocals, lyrics) – announced as one of the two lead singers of fripSide on April 24, 2022.
Former members
- Nao (vocals, lyrics) – graduated on March 15, 2009
- Yoshino Nanjō (nickname "Nanjolno") (vocals, lyrics) – announced as the new lead singer of fripSide on July 28, 2009. Graduated on April 24, 2022.
Sound staff
- Kenji (sound director)
- Takumi Okamoto (sound director)
- masa (chorus, synthesizer)
- Mayu (guitar)
- Takahiro Toguchida (guitar)
- a2c (guitar)
- Shinichiro Yamashita (lyrics)
- Graphica3810 (design)
- Kula (management)
- riko (chorus)
- Kai Kawasaki (nickname: "DJ Hentai") (arranger, DJ, synthesizer)
- shin kurokawa (lyrics, composition)
- Shinya Saito (arranger)
- Hoshino takeshi (guitar)
- Yagi kazumi (drum)
- Kitamura Yuta (bass guitar)
Discography
fripSide (Nao)
Singles
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| Release date | Title | Tracklist | Charts | 1st | |
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| July 16, 2008 | Flower of Bravery | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #26 | |||
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Original albums
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| Release date | Title | Tracklist | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | |
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| April 12, 2003 | First Odyssey of fripSide | |||||||
| March 28, 2004 | 2nd Fragment of fripSide | |||||||
| June 23, 2005 | 3rd Reflection of fripSide | |||||||
| August 24, 2007 | Binarydigit | |||||||
| Bonus disc(初回盤のみ付属) | ||||||||
| ソフトウェア流通盤 | ||||||||
| September 16, 2008 | Split Tears | |||||||
| メジャー流通盤 | ||||||||
| September 17, 2008 | ||||||||
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Other albums
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| Release date | Title | Tracklist | Best | Best | Remix | CD-box | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 15, 2006 | The Very Best Of fripSide 2002–2006 （Coterie board） | Disc1 Nao Side | |||||
| Disc2 sat Side | |||||||
| December 29, 2006 | The Very Best Of fripSide 2002-2006 （commercial distribution board） | Disc1 Nao Side | |||||
| Disc 2 sat Side | |||||||
| December 28, 2008 | Re:product mixes ver.0.1（Comic Market 75 Limited） | ||||||
| First edition | |||||||
| Limited edition 2009 | |||||||
| July 17, 2009 | Nao Complete Anthology 2002-2009 – My Graduation | * 105 songs | |||||
| Edition | |||||||
| Comic market 77 pre-sale | |||||||
| December 29, 2009 | |||||||
| Edition | |||||||
| General sale | |||||||
| March 26, 2010 | |||||||
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fripSide NAO project!
Singles
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| Release date | Title | Tracklist | Oricon | 1st | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| August 20, 2008 | Yappari sekaiha atashi☆legend!! | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #32 | |||
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Original album
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| Release date | Title | Tracklist | 1st | |
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| January 25, 2008 | ** Rabbit Syndrome** | |||
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fripSide (Yoshino)
Singles
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| Release date | Title | Track listing | Charts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | 11th | 12th | 13th | 14th | 15th | 16th | 17th | 18th | 19th | |
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| November 4, 2009 | only my railgun | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #3 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| February 17, 2010 | Level 5: Judgelight | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| October 13, 2010 | Future Gazer | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #4 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| August 24, 2011 | Heaven is a Place on Earth | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #19 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| December 14, 2011 | Way to Answer | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #15 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| May 8, 2013 | Sister's Noise | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #1 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| August 21, 2013 | eternal reality | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| May 14, 2014 | black bullet | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #6 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| May 20, 2015 | Luminize | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #11 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| December 2, 2015 | Two Souls – Toward The Truth | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| February 10, 2016 | White Forces | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #7 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| May 3, 2017 | clockwork planet | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| February 28, 2018 | killing bites | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #16 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| May 16th, 2018 | divine criminal | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #11 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| November 7th, 2018 | Love with You | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| February 26th, 2020 | final phase | Japanese Oricon weekly singles charts #10 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| August 19th, 2020 | dual existence | Japanese Oricon weekly singles charts #11 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| November 4th, 2020 | legendary future | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #12 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| February 2, 2022 | Leap of faith | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #9 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Albums
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| Release date | Title | Songs | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | 4th | 5th | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9th | 10th | |
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| December 1, 2010 | infinite synthesis | ||||||||||||
| January 1, 2012 | fripSide PC game compilation vol. 01 | ||||||||||||
| December 5, 2012 | Decade | ||||||||||||
| September 10, 2014 | infinite synthesis 2 | ||||||||||||
| August 26, 2015 | fripSide PC game compilation vol. 02 | ||||||||||||
| October 5, 2016 | infinite synthesis 3 | ||||||||||||
| October 4, 2017 | crossroads | Disc 1 | |||||||||||
| Disc 2 | |||||||||||||
| October 10, 2018 | infinite synthesis 4 | ||||||||||||
| October 30, 2019 | infinite synthesis 5 | ||||||||||||
| March 23, 2022 | infinite synthesis 6 | ||||||||||||
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Collaboration Singles
- 僕は僕であって (Boku wa Boku de Atte) [as angela x fripSide]
- Release date : 19 October 2016
- 僕は僕であって (Boku wa Boku de Atte)
- 僕は僕であって (TV size)
- 僕は僕であって (off vocal version)
- The end of escape [as fripSide x angela]
- Release date: 7 December 2016
fripSide (Mao & Hisayo)
Singles
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| Release date | Title | Track listing | Charts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 18, 2022 | dawn of infinity | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #18 | |||||
| October 11, 2023 | Red Liberation | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #35 | |||||
| August 21, 2024 | Secret Operation | Japanese Oricon weekly single charts #26 | |||||
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Albums
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| Release date | Title | Track listing | Charts | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| October 19, 2022 | double Decades | Japanese Oricon weekly album charts #12 | |||||
| infinite Resonance | |||||||
| November 8, 2023 | infinite Resonance 2 | Japanese Oricon weekly album charts #19 | |||||
| October 9, 2024 | infinite Resonance 3 | Japanese Oricon weekly album charts #15 | |||||
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Video games
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| Release date | Title | Single |
|---|---|---|
| December 29, 2007 | ALcot Vocal Arrange Album Growing | |
| February 27, 2009 | RADiO Twinkle☆Crusaders vol.3 | |
| December 11, 2009 | Hidamari Basket Vocal Collection | |
| March 26, 2010 | ''Areas～Koi Suru Otome no 3H～ Theme Song CD''' | |
| July 7, 2010 | Dance Dance Revolution X2 | |
| Jubeat Knit (July 29, 2010) | ||
| Pop'n Music 19 (December 9, 2010) | ||
| Gitadora (February 14, 2013) | ||
| Sound Voltex Vivid Wave (February 28, 2019) | ||
| August 27, 2010 | ''Prism☆Magical | |
| August 26, 2011 | "Ren’ai Katei Kyoushi Rurumi★Coordinate!" Original Soundtrack | |
| November 16, 2011 | Dance Dance Revolution X3 vs. 2ndMix | |
| Reflec Beat Limelight | ||
| February 24, 2012 | Hatsuyuki Sakura Special Soundtrack | |
| May 25, 2012 | Hatsuyuki Sakura Complete Soundtrack | |
| December 24, 2012 | Koiken Otome Vocal Collection | |
| November 29, 2013 | Izayoi no Fortuna Original Soundtrack CD | |
| March 28, 2014 | Clover Heart's -Reproduct mix- | |
| April 25, 2014 | Koiken Otome | |
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Contributions
- magic "a" ride Vocal CD (Opening theme for magic "a" ride) - Released on July 4, 2008. This vocal CD was only a bonus disc for those who pre-ordered the game. Only the first track is done by fripSide.
- Katakoi no Tsuki First Edition Special Vocal Collection – Tracks 2–4 were done by fripSide (Split Tears, Tomorrow, and Never no Astray).
- spiral of despair – resurrection – (Opening for Chikan Senyou Sharyou 2 – Houfiku no Chijyoku Densha) – Under the name fripSide featuring Rita. This song was made after Nao left.
- brave new world (insert song from the Key/Visual Arts drama CD adaptation of Planetarian) was done by fripSide.
- Ryuusei no Bifrost (opening theme of the first Hyperdimension Neptunia game) was done by Nao in 2011, after she graduated.
- re:ceptivity (featured in Decade Album) is vocalized by Nao.
References
References
- (2008-09-24). "アニメ『恋姫†無双』の主題歌を手がけるfripSideがCD発売記念イベントを開催". [[Animate (retailer).
- "Toranoana's SUMMER MIX Vol. 1". [[Comic Toranoana.
- "sat's fripSide blog, 8-26-2007". sat.
- "fripSide". Nao.
- (2009-11-10). "To Aru Kagaku no Railgun's Opening Theme Lands at #3". Anime News Network.
- Loo, Egan. (October 31, 2021). "Voice Actress Yoshino Nanjō to Leave fripSide Music Duo".
- "南條愛乃卒業、第2期fripSideの約13年を振り返る2日間。「fripSide Phase2 Final Arena Tour 2022 -infinite synthesis:endless voyage-」さいたまスーパーアリーナ2days公演オフィシャルライブレポートが到着！".
- "flower of bravery {{!}} fripSide".
- "only my railgun {{!}} fripSide".
- "LEVEL5-judgelight- {{!}} fripSide".
- "future gazer {{!}} fripSide".
- "Heaven is a Place on Earth {{!}} fripSide".
- "way to answer {{!}} fripSide".
- "sister's noise {{!}} fripSide".
- "eternal reality(初回限定盤) {{!}} fripSide".
- "black bullet(初回限定盤) {{!}} fripSide".
- "Luminize(初回限定盤A) {{!}} fripSide".
- "Two souls -toward the truth- {{!}} fripSide".
- "white forces {{!}} fripSide".
- "clockwork planet {{!}} fripSide".
- "killing bites {{!}} fripSide".
- "divine criminal {{!}} fripSide".
- "Love with You(初回限定盤CD+DVD) {{!}} fripSide".
- "final phase＜初回限定盤 CD+DVD＞ {{!}} fripSide".
- "dual existence＜初回限定盤＞ {{!}} fripSide".
- "legendary future {{!}} fripSide".
- "Leap of faith {{!}} fripSide".
- "dawn of infinity {{!}} fripSide".
- "Red Liberation {{!}} fripSide".
- "Secret Operation {{!}} fripSide".
- "double Decades+infinite Resonance {{!}} fripSide".
- "infinite Resonance 2 {{!}} fripSide".
- "infinite Resonance 3 {{!}} fripSide".
- Nao is listed as vocalist in the booklet.
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