Kōji Wada

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Kouji Wada (和田光司 Wada Kōji) (January 29, 1974), sometimes referred as Koji Wada or Wada Kouji, is a Japanese singer, best known for his work in the Digimon series. He was born in Kyoto. His height is 1.75m, his weight is 58kg, and his blood type is B.

Wada sang the Opening Themes for the four seasons of Digimon, as well as the first Evolution Theme for Digimon Frontier, "With the Will", and the two Ending Themes of Frontier, "Innocent ~Mujaki na Mama de~" (イノセント～無邪気なままで～)and "an Endless Tale" (with AiM). He also starred in various other Digimon songs, such as "Bokura no Digital World" (the "memorial" theme for the Adventure series), "Yuuki o Uketsugu Kodomotachi e" (a song starring all the singers in Digimon, including AiM, Ayumi Miyazaki, Michihiko Ohta, etc.) and several Christmas songs.

In 2003, Wada released his first original album, "All of My Mind", which included some songs from Digimon Adventure, Adventure 02 and Tamers and the Opening Theme for Transformers: Car Robots. He also collaborated in Ohta Michihiko's self-cover album "Mirai e no Message ~Ohta Michihiko Self-Cover~", featuring in two tracks - a cover version of "Hontou no Tsuyosa" (本当の強さ)(Ken & Wormmon's Theme) and in "3 Primary Colors" (the Tamers' theme), along with AiM.

Kouji Wada will perform the second opening theme for the fifth Digimon series, Digimon Savers, beginning in November 2006. The song is entitled Hirari (Nimbly; Lightly)

[edit] Kouji Wada Digimon Singles

Butter-Fly (Digimon Adventure Opening Theme) (23 April 1999)

Target ~Akai Shougeki~ (Digimon Adventure 02 Opening Theme) (26 April 2000

Bokura no Digital World (2001) (also featuring AiM, Digimon All Stars & Narration by Hiroaki Hirata)

The Biggest Dreamer (Digimon Tamers Opening Theme) (2 April 2001)

The Biggest Dreamer - Movie 5 Limited Edition Single (4 July 2001

The Biggest Dreamer - Movie 6 Limited Edition Single (6 March 2002)

FIRE!!/With the Will (Digimon Frontier Opening Theme / Evoution Theme) (24 April 2002)

Innocent ~Mujaki na mama de~ (Digimon Frontier Ending Theme 1) (22 May 2002)

an Endless tale (Digimon Frontier Ending Theme 2) (22 November 2002) (featuring AiM)

Hirari (Digimon Savers Second Opening Theme) (November 5, 2006) (featuring IKUO)

Egao (Digimon Tamers. OST Run Away Express)

[edit] Other Series Songs

Honoo no Overdrive - Transformers : Car Robots (AKA : "Tranformer Carrobot" , "Transformers 2000" , "Transformers : Robots in Disguise (US/European Title))