Kōji Wada

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Kōji Wada (和田 光司 Wada Kōji) (born January 29, 1974) is a Japanese rock singer, best known for his work in the Digimon series. He was born in Kyoto. His height is 1.75 m, his weight is 58 kg, 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". He Also performed 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 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. Most recently, he has released an album called "The Best Selection ~Welcome Back!~". It contains several of his earlier works as well as two new songs, titled "Pierce" and "Kimi no Keshiki."

Kouji Wada returned to the Digimon franchise to sing the second opening theme for the fifth series, Digimon Savers. The song is entitled Hirari (Nimbly; Lightly)

In July 2007, Wada Kouji made his first show in Brazil, doing a solo presentation and singing along others invited Japanese singers on the "Anime Friends". This happened one year after Ayumi Miyazaki visits Brazil in another convention "ExpoAnime Brasil". He also visited the state of Rio Grande do Sul in Brazil in October 14th 2007, during the Anima Weekend event.

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[edit] Kouji Wada Digimon singles

[edit] Digimon Adventure & Digimon Adventure 02

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

Seven (featured in episode 14 of Digimon Adventure) (23 April 1999)

Target ~Akai Shougeki~ (ターゲット～赤い衝撃～) (Digimon Adventure 02 Opening Theme) (26 April 2000)

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

[edit] Digimon Tamers

The Biggest Dreamer (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)

Kaze (風) (featured in Episode 24")

Egao (笑顔) (OST Run Away Express)

[edit] Digimon Frontier

FIRE!! / With the Will (Opening Theme / Evolution Theme) (24 April 2002)

Innocent ~Mujaki na mama de~ (イノセント～無邪気なままで～) (Ending Theme 1) (22 May 2002)

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

[edit] Digimon Savers

Hirari (ヒラリ) (Opening Theme 2) (November 5, 2006)

[edit] Digimon World

Miracle Maker (Digimon World 3) (February of 2003) (feat. AiM & Takayoshi Tanimoto as "Spirit of Adventure")

[edit] Other songs from Digimon

Boku wa Boku Datte (僕は僕だって) (c/w "Target ~Akai Shougeki~")

Daybreak (c/w "Innocent ~Mujaki na Mama de~")

for the future (c/w "Hirari")

Haruka na Okurimono (遥かな贈りもの) (c/w "an Endless tale") (featuring AiM)

Yūki wo Uketsugu Kodomotachi e (勇気を受け継ぐ子供達へ) (Digimon Memorial)

[edit] Other series songs

[edit] Transformers: Robots in Disguise

Honoo no Overdrive ~Car Robot Cybertron~ (炎のオーバードライブ～カーロボットサイバトロン～) (Opening Theme) (May 24, 2000)

Kimi no Yume (君色の未来-ゆめ-) (c/w Honoo no Overdrive)

[edit] Kouji Wada original songs

Modern Love

Pierce

Shoujo no mama de (少女のままで)

Starting Over / Say Again (November 7, 2001)

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