YUZU

Yuzu is a Japanese pop rock duo who debuted in 1997. Its members are Yūjin Kitagawa and Kōji Iwasawa. Both of the band members come from Yokohama in Kanagawa Prefecture, and attended Okamura Junior High School. Their songs "Hyōri Ittai", "Reason", and "Nagareboshi Kirari" were used as ending themes of the anime series Hunter × Hunter. Yuzu started out as street musicians. At first, the band's name was "Light's", but Kitagawa disliked it, so they changed the name to "Yuzu". At that time, Kitagawa was eating a yuzu sherbet, so he named the band after the fruit. The fans of Yuzu are called "Yuzukko", and the name of the official Yuzu fan club is "Yuzunowa". In 2004, their song "Bridge of Glory" was used by NHK as the official theme song for the Olympic Games. The story-driven ice show "Hyoen 2024 – The Miracle of the Cross Star" – starring Japanese figure skater, Olympic bronze medallist and former world champion Daisuke Takahashi – which was loosely based on the classic philosophical fantasy novel Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa, was entirely told through pre-existing Yuzu songs, which were rearranged by soundtrack composer Kenji Kawai. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_(b...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...)