#Love Live! Sunshine!! Yoshiko VA Aika Kobayashi to Release 1st Album “Gradation Collection” on June 23

The official website for voice actress/singer Aika Kobayashi, best known as Yoshiko Tsushima in the Love Live! Sunshine!! franchise, has announced that her first album “Gradation Collection” is set to be released on June 23, 2021.

While working as a member of the Love Live! Sunshine!! franchise’s nine-member VA unit Aqours, she released her second solo single “NO LIFE CODE” from TOY’S FACTORY in February 2020, eight years after her first single “future is serious,” from Media Factory in April 2012. Then, her third single (second from TOYS FACTORY) “Tough Heart” followed in January 2021. 

In addition to the two single songs from TOY’S FACTORY and the three theme/insert songs for the Farewell, My Dear Cramer anime franchise, the 13-song album “Gradation Collection” will also include eight newly-recorded songs. The jacket illustration for the first production limited edition was drawn by illustrator Rei Kato, who has been working on the jacket illustrations since “NO LIFE CODE.”

Song list:

1. “NO LIFE CODE” (1st single from TOY’S FACTORY)

2. “Heartache soldier”

3. “Secret Feeling

4. “Sora wa Dareka no Mono jya Nai” (Movie “Farewell, My Dear Cramer: First Touch” theme song)

5. “Tatatan Barin Rhythn”

6. “Easy Fizzy”

7. “Tough Heart” (2nd single / TV anime “True Cooking Master Boy” OP theme)

8. “Please! Please! Please!”

9. “Border Rain”

10.”AMBITIOUS GOAL” (TV anime “Farewell, My Dear Cramer” OP theme)

11. “Moonlight Balcony”

12. “Night Camp”

13. “Can you sing along?” (Movie “Farewell, My Dear Cramer: First Touch” insert song)

Source: Aika Kobayashi official website

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