Yuriko Yoshitaka sang the theme song of her new drama "The Favourite" in October

▲Utada Hikaru

Utada Hikaru's new song was released on September 17 as the theme song for the TV series "The Favourite" starring Yuriko Yoshitaka, which will begin airing in October and air at 10 p.m. at the TBS Friday Theater.

Mitsuru Utada last sang on the TV series by singing the theme song "Time" from "Food Detective Satoshi Goro" that aired on Japan Television in April 2020. She has sung the theme song of the TBS TV series, from "The Witch's Condition" in 1999, "First Love" in 2002, to "I'm Sorry," ごめん, 愛してる" in 2017, which was the first time to sing for the Friday Theater.

In the first half of 2121, "One Last Kiss", the theme song of the movie "Evangelion Theater Edition", won the Oricon chart for the first time as a female singer for three consecutive weeks, and the digital music chart song chart & listening chart double TOP, ranking, download, album, animation theme song four charts all won the first four charts. The song has also aroused heated discussion in 33 countries and regions around the world.

In June, "PINK BLOOD" (the theme song of the anime "To the Immortal You") was released and swept the major charts. Shiseido's global campaign "SHISEIDO" in 88 countries around the world, "POWER IS YOU", uses Utada Hikaru's promotional song "Find Love", which is rapidly disseminating around Japan and abroad.

The show "Favorite" not only uses Utada Hikaru's songs as the theme song, but its production lineup is also very gorgeous. Outstanding producers Born out of the popular works of Friday Theater "Unnatural Death" (2018) and "Mobile Search Team 404" (2020), Junko Arai and actress Yayuko Tsukahara, together with Sadoko Okutera and Yuko Shimizu, who co-wrote the screenplay in Friday Theater 'Inversion (2017), the four of them joined forces to create an original suspenseful love story. Coupled with starring Yuriko Yoshitaka, what kind of storyline this gorgeous combination will unfold, let's wait and see.

After the first episode of the TV series is broadcast, everyone will hear the song of the theme song and see the title of the song. (ねこタコ/Translation)