Hiroshi Hotan

Hiroshi Hotan

Wada Kouji, born in Fukuyama, Kyoto, Japan, was a Japanese singer from January 29, 1974 to April 3, 2016. On April 23, 1999, the Royal singer of animation "digital baby" series made his debut in Fuji TV station with the theme song "Butterfly".

In 2003, he was diagnosed with throat cancer and was told that the survival rate was 40% after five years. In April of the same year, he retired after attending the memorial concert of "digital baby" series. In 2005, after receiving treatment, he came back again and sang the theme song of the animated "digital beast savior" in November 2006. In 2011, the patient stopped activity in October due to cancer recurrence. After a long-term struggle with the disease, he made a short comeback on October 3, 2013, so he was known as the "immortal butterfly animation singer".

On June 4, 2015, before the opening of BiliBili Macrolink 2015 Shanghai Concert, he expressed his greetings to bilibilibili audience through video, and on July 1, 2015, he was unable to participate in the performance due to physical reasons, so he came to perform Animation songs through the relay of Masao endo.

On November 21, 2015, he sang the new theme song "Butterfly" for Chapter 1 of "digital beast adventure tri."~ tri.Version ~March 30, 2016, singing the last song of Chapter 2 seven~ tri.Version ~》。

On the morning of April 3, 2016, he died of ineffective treatment of throat cancer at the age of 42.

Character experience

The seeds of music

He didn't come from a musical family. He didn't have music training in high school. However, after hearing his friend's guitar, he fell in love with it and started to make his own music. After graduating from high school, Hotan worked as a salesman in an electrical equipment company in Osaka. He lived in a dormitory in tanmachi. Three months later, he voluntarily transferred to Tokyo Branch instead of his colleagues. However, after only three months, he resigned and went back to his hometown. After that, while working, he decided to be a singer who would sing his feelings of exploring life. He was going to Tokyo. A year later, he worked and saved 400000 yen. On January 12, 1993, 19-year-old Hotan took a bus from Fujiyama station to Tokyo station.

Tokyo alone

In Tokyo, Hotan was alone and unfamiliar with the terrain. He went to a place called Xinqiao and stayed in a 2500 yen a day hotel called "Kapsel Hotel" for two weeks before he found an apartment to rent. He saw the news of a studio recruiting staff in the magazine and went to apply for a job, but he hoped to be an actor. During this period, he worked as an extra in many TV dramas and movies, and even in time dramas. He was tired of this kind of life, homesick under the idea of moving home. At this time, the father, who once said he could go home at any time, said to him on the phone, "is that the way to give up? Try again Hotan was deeply moved and never gave up. In retrospect, he said that it was a sentence that determined his destiny in life. If it wasn't for his father, there would be no Hotan who sings today.

Looking for direction

After that, He Tian Guangsi recognized the road of music. He thought that being an actor would not help his development and left the firm. He once organized a band, held a live, and sent his music works to various music offices, companies, and record stores. Sometimes he even sent 100 pieces at a time, but all of them were dead. After experiencing failures again and again, finally one day, the God of fate opened his eyes. The production director (probably Jiao tongbozhi) called him and asked him to show his first encounter with Digimon and hope to meet again.

He met with the director for many times, and after repeated revision, he finally produced his debut work "Butterfly". The CD was recorded in January 1999 and put on sale in April. It was broadcast on TV on March 17 as the op of digital beast adventure. After that, he insisted on going through a lot of things, and became the current koji HOTA.

Unfortunate illness

In 2003, all patients with laryngeal cancer and laryngeal cancer had no recurrence.

Until 2006, digital baby series animation released the fifth "digital animal savior", all the songs of the lead singer did not have the participation of Takeshi Hotan. In addition, the melody of the theme song of the fifth series was too different from the quality of the previous works. Then the Japanese audience asked to change the theme song, and Takeshi Hotan participated in the animation song again. It can be seen that the voice of Hotan has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. As a matter of fact, he lost his voice for several years because of illness (he did not explain the reason for his illness at that time) and did not get back to his original state until the launch of the fifth part. Therefore, he was the first time to mobilize the lead singer of the theme song.

However, no matter how short the music funding for the fifth film is, the production team of Dongying and Fuji TV station, which are under the pressure of public opinion, decided to replace the series theme songs. Later, the theme songs will be played by koji Hotan again, breaking the precedent that each series of digital baby has only one theme song. However, after the comeback of Hotan, the voice and vocal cords are not as clear and loud as before, and can also be heard from the songs It's where he's struggling when he's singing high.

On October 4, 2011, during the broadcast of Digimon Series 6 "digital beast war", he explained that he was ill in 2003 and announced that he would stop singing because of illness.

Come back again

On October 3, 2013, Hotan announced that he was "back" on his twitter and blog. His good friend Miyazaki, who is also a singer, replied, "welcome back.". Hotan tweeted again that it will be back to live for the first time next month.

The earliest one was suddenly released on the morning of October 3, 2013, two years after Hotan suddenly announced that he was ill on October 4, 2011. The next day, Hotan announced that he would hold a live in November.

On October 5, 2013, Hotan released a video of his comeback manifesto, and the comeback of live was set for November 24.

On August 1, 2014, Dongying held a performance named "yesterday reappearance" in Japan to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the broadcast of Digimon. He appeared on the stage to sing "red shock" and "Butterfly". Because of the obvious weak voice of laryngeal cancer, it caused heartache to countless fans. Some netizens also lamented that "Hotan is really old.".

From August 29 to 31, 2014, the summer large-scale animation Song Concert "animelo summer live 2014 oneness -" held in "Saitama super arena" participated in the performance on August 29.

On October 1, 2014, at the Hong Kong Kowloon Bay International Exhibition and Trade Center MusicZone@E-Max "Animatepresentations" was held with Micang Chihiro, who participated in the two performances of the same day.

On July 1, 2015, koji Hotan, who originally planned to participate in BiliBili offline activities in Shanghai on July 25, announced that he was unable to participate due to physical reasons and was replaced by Masao endo.

He died of illness

On April 8, 2016, solidfox office officially published a sad report. On the morning of April 3, He Tian Guangsi died of upper laryngeal cancer. Due to the wishes of the family, the funeral will be held in secret, and a farewell ceremony of "Hotan Guangsi" will be held in Tokyo in late April.

On April 26, 2016, the official held a farewell ceremony for Mr. Ota. Under the photo frame of Uncle Guangshu, there are flowers in the shape of butterflies. Due to the various reasons of Yoshida and "digital beast adventure", a large number of digital baby toys and peripheries can also be seen at the scene. Other people who sent elegiac couplets used the self declaration of "all the children who inherited their courage", which made people moved.

Acting experience

In April 1999, the theme song "Butterfly fly" of Fuji TV series animation "digital beast adventure" was officially released. It's the first time rock style has been sung, but it's very smooth. In addition to TBS TV station countdowntv's ranking for five consecutive weeks, the song became the 47 th most popular song on Oricon's public trust list, and became Hotan's representative work. Since then, he has mainly played the theme song for the animation "Digimon" series.

In 2000, he served as the theme song of the TV animation "transformer car robot" (transformers), "fire, fire, fire, fire, fire and fire". In December 2001, he released his first album all of my mind.

In April 2003, he was found suffering from laryngeal cancer, and the doctor announced that "the survival rate after five years is 40%". In April of the same year, the Digimon series finale memorial concert was held to announce the suspension of activities. The reason is my own illness, because I can't speak.

In 2006, because I can speak, I came back from convalescence. Although he lost his voice for a while because of surgery and chemotherapy, after he could make his voice, he restarted the concert and other activities. one

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