OneRepublic and Kaiju No. 8 are preserving an excellent factor going. A yr after the American pop-rock stars soundtracked the acclaimed Japanese anime’s first run of episodes with “Nobody (Kaiju No. 8 ED Theme),” which gained the 2025 Japan Gold Disc Award for “Song of the Year by Download,” they’re returning April 18 with “Invincible (from Kaiju No. 8),” a single for a particular episode of Kaiju No. 8 at the moment airing in North American film theaters.
“Invincible” finds OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder singing about these moments after we really feel unstoppable regardless of the chaos round us: “Round and round and round we go/ Wherever we stop, nobody knows/ In the end, we lose control/ But right now, we’re invincible.” In January, Tedder posted a video from his lodge room in Tokyo asserting that he’d simply completed the tune by writing the bridge. The subsequent evening, OneRepublic gave “Invincible” its debut efficiency throughout their present at Ariake Area.
Kaiju No. 8 started as a manga, launching in 2020 and attaining vital business and significant success. The anime adaptation aired its first season from April to June of 2024. It has since been packaged right into a feature-length film for worldwide audiences, with a abstract of the primary season adopted by Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon, a particular episode centered on the favored character Hoshina, viewable solely in theaters. Throughout the USA and Canada, theatrical screenings of Kaiju No. 8’s first season and Kaiju No. 8: Mission Recon conclude April 16. The anime’s second season will premiere in July 2025.
Fashioned in 2002 in Colorado Springs, OneRepublic shortly discovered success on Myspace earlier than shifting to Los Angeles and dealing their approach to the center of the music business. The band teamed with Timbaland on their 2007 breakout hit “Apologize,” a No. 2 hit which appeared on their very own debut album Dreaming Out Loud and Timbaland’s Shock Worth. The band grew to become a constant presence close to the highest of the Billboard Sizzling 100, together with with 2013’s “Counting Stars,” which additionally peaked at No. 2. Tedder, the band’s frontman, has additionally emerged as probably the most profitable songwriters and producers on the planet, working with stars together with Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Adele amongst many others.
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