Official Aimer Thread: 23rd Single『白色蜉蝣』Shiroiro Kagerou + 800

Welcome to this Aimer Thread - let's discover and/or appreciate this very talented singer.

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Did you know that her name Aimer is pronounced "エメ or E-me" because it's taken from the French word for "to like or to love"? She's known for her unique vocal color: a husky and yet clear voice and her ability to convey emotions, especially in ballads.

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Profile & Short Bio

Aimer is a singer and lyricist (using the pen name aimerrhythm in the credits). She's very private (and intends to keep it so, thus limited personal information, which I respect!) She didn't even show her face until several years into her career (she debut in 2011 and the first time she showed her face was in August 2016 on Music Station TV program). Her current label is SACRA Music and her management office is agehasprings. In the first few years of her career, she wrote for other artists and sang cover songs etc. Then she officially debut in 2011 with DefStar Records.

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Discography: 7 albums and 3 compilation albums

For each album, I linked to an official Aimer YT video from that album...either a song or an album highlight digest.

I didn't do a singles listing because most of her singles and B-sides are available on albums and her singles are mostly for collectors and casual or anime fans, since many of her songs are soundtrack songs. Her official website as it broken down by all the available versions - as some singles have up to 3 or 4 versions with different covers and content etc.

Latest Release Information:

Will now be updated in the latest posts etc.

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Official Aimer Web Site: https://www.aimer-web.jp/

Official YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/aimerSMEJ/featured

This was difficult but I've selected 7 of my favorite Aimer songs reflecting her range as introduction to her large discography:

1. 歌鳥風月 (Kachou Fugetsu - literally: Song of Bird, Wind, Moon) - Traditional Asian inspired ballad

2. Insane Dream (Collab w/ (song written by) Taka from One Ok Rock) - Pop-Rock

3. 蝶々結び (Chouchou Musubi - Butterfly Knot) LIVE Orchestra ver. {This song was her break-out hit - Pop}

4. Wonderland - I consider this one as alternative + genre mixing: folk, rock, pop, ballad

5. 残響散歌 (Zankyo Sanka how do I translate this hahah - Song of Reverberation (of sound)) - Big band/jazz pop

6. I Beg You (live audio from Shanghai concert) - alternative - mix of pop/rock/folk ballad

7. Torches - (live performance) - folksy ballad

A cool collab between Aimer, Lilas Ikuta, and milet on The FIRST TAKE program:

They sound so great together singing Omokage by Vaundy

A long preview of Ivy Ivy Ivy from the new mini-album!!

The MV of Ivy Ivy Ivy was released:

It mostly has scenes from the J-drama since it's an OST song.

The covers of the new mini album ‘Deep Down’ has been released. I really love her album covers, all very unique, on point re themes, and has a clear distinct ‘Aimer’ style.

The teaser and MV premiere link is here:

Sounds good and Chainsaw Man snatching Jpn talent for its OST!

The Chainsaw Man Ending w/ Deep Down is out!

Aimer will be participating in this year’s NHK Kohaku too - w/ Miley, Vaundy, Ikuta Lilas etc.

The official MV for Deep Down was released!

I am sooooooo happy re the news that Aimer is singing the OP song called ‘escalate’ for the new Nier Automata anime series - starts on Jan.7th - Nier Automata is one of the best games I ever played.

Amazarashi is also cool and he did a song for Nier before so not surprise he is back to collab again.

Escalate will be Aimee’s 21st single and released on March 1st!

Looks like Aimer will perform twice on NHK Kohaku tonight! She will be performing Zankyo Sanka and Omokage. When the video becomes available, I will update the thread.

Thank you for posting the news re her marriage to music producer Tobinai Masahiro. he has produced or co-produced several of her songs through the years. I wish them all the best and what a way to start the year for Aimer!

Aimer is really on a roll - new collab with MAISONdes and Wanuka for a song called ‘Itsunomani’

Ugh - I tried to see if NHK uploaded the Kohaku performances and they uploaded 37 seconds clip lol. I'll upload the full version if I come across them later. The 37 clips are on the NHK Music YT Channel and it won't even post on this forum.

Itsunomani with Aimer and Wanuka by Maisondes

Aimer is having another new song called Crossovers and it is also been selected as a promo song for the JRA

The full song escalate was released on Aimer's YT.