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Yoko Hikasa has announced new single Seek Diamonds with tie-in as the ending theme for baseball anime Ace of Diamond. Its her 3rd solo single and comes on two editions. Single “Seek Diamonds” is scheduled for release on November 13th 2013 – read on for more details and trailer preview for anime Ace of Diamond.

Anime voice actress and singer Yoko Hikasa debuted as a solo artist with single “Utsukushiki zankoku na sekai” (美しき残酷な世界)(2013.05.08) with tie-in as the first ending theme for popular anime TV series Attack on Titan (Shingeki no Kyojin) (more details). She followed that up with her 2nd single “Owaranai uta” (2013.06.05) featured as the theme song for anime movie HAL. The movie is an original production from animation studio WIT Studio and also stars Yoko Hikasa in the lead roll of Kurumi (more details).

Completing 3 months of consecutive solo releases Yoko Hikasa released her first album “Glamorous Songs” on July 17th 2013. The album is a collaboration with several song writers, composers, and arrangers including Tetsuya Komuro and K-ON! music team: Emi Inaba, TOM-H@ck, and Hiroyuki Maezawa (more details).

Anime Ace of Diamond is adapted from baseball manga by Yuji Terajima and follows the story of high school pitcher Eijun Sawamura who along with the rest of his teammates strive to win Japan’s important Koshien championship.

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The anime is produced by Madhouse and Production I.G. Anime Ace of Diamonds begins airing in Japan October 6th 2013 on TV Tokyo. No announcement yet if it will be available outside of Japan on TV Tokyo partner site Crunchyroll. Check our Crunchyroll updates page for all the new anime episodes.

Yoko Hikasa’s 3rd single “Seek Diamonds” comes on two editions that share the same CD track list (details subject to change),

– Limited with DVD that includes music video for title track, 8-page lyrics booklet.

– Regular CD-only

Full track list, jacket covers, are updated. Watch the preview trailer for anime Ace of Diamond after the release details.

Yoko HikasaSeek Diamonds – release date November 13th 2013

Limited [CD+DVD] (¥1800)
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Regular [CD] (¥1200)
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[CD]
1. Seek Diamonds
lyrics: Sachiko Omori, music: Masato Nakayama

2. Love My Melody
3. Seek Diamonds (off vocal)
4. Love My Melody (off vocal)
[DVD]
1. Seek Diamonds (music video)

[CD]
1. Seek Diamonds
2. Love My Melody
3. Seek Diamonds (off vocal)
4. Love My Melody (off vocal)

 

 

Yoko Hikasa Official website (Pony Canyon)

Yoko Hikasa Blog

Ace of Diamond official website