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Obituary: Koji Wada died and sang the classic theme song of Digimon

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Click on the music above, do you feel like you are back in childhood? This "Digimon" op "butter-fly" can be said to be one of the most familiar Japanese anime songs in China's post-80s and 90s, and this song can be said to accompany our childhood.

Obituary: Koji Wada died and sang the classic theme song of Digimon

Just today, a sad news came, and the official website of The Japan Solid Vox Office issued a notice that the famous singer, the royal singer of the "Digimon" series, the singer of "butter-fly" and The dankoji died of throat cancer on the morning of April 3 at the age of 42.

Obituary: Koji Wada died and sang the classic theme song of Digimon

At last year's Digimon 15th anniversary event, he appeared sick and sang "butter-fly".

Koji Wada previously announced on October 4, 2011 that he would stop his singer activities due to illness. But two years later, on October 3, 2013, Wada announced his comeback on Twitter and on his personal blog. However, in several concerts after his comeback, Koji Wada's voice problems caused by throat cancer made people wonder whether his body had completely recovered. On July 1, 2015, Koji Wada, who had planned to participate in the B station offline event in Shanghai on July 25, announced that he could not participate due to physical reasons, and was finally replaced by Masaaki Endo. Perhaps at that time, Kōji Wada was deeply troubled by illness.

Obituary: Koji Wada died and sang the classic theme song of Digimon

Koji Wada was born in Fukuchiyama City, Kyoto Province, and when he was alone in Tokyo, he saw the news that a studio in a magazine was recruiting staff and went to apply for a job. During this time he worked as an extra for many TV series and movies. After that, he thought that being an actor did not help his development and left the firm. He has formed bands, held lives, sent his musical works to various music companies, companies, record stores, and sometimes even sent 100 copies at a time, but all of them were lost in the sea. After experiencing one failure after another, the production director finally called him and asked him to show his first encounter with digimon and the hope of meeting again. After repeated revisions, he finally came up with his debut work, "Butter Fly".

Obituary: Koji Wada died and sang the classic theme song of Digimon

In 2003, pharyngeal cancer was discovered and was announced in a live in the final series of the Digital Beast series held in April, but a comeback was announced after the following year of recuperation. After 2011, the recurrence of the cancer was discovered, and the activity began to be suspended again from October of the same year, and in October 2013 blogs and twitter published a resurrection. Because of the powerful resurrection appearance, he began as an anime singer of the debut song "Immortal Butterfly".

Obituary: Koji Wada died and sang the classic theme song of Digimon

"Digimon" is the post-80s and post-90s people's minds and "Pokémon" status is equivalent, especially the first "Digimon Adventure", the theme song "butter-fly" and the background of evolution bgm "brave-heart" is also a popular track for friends.

Obituary: Koji Wada died and sang the classic theme song of Digimon

In any case, the "Digimon" op - "Butterfly" that has accompanied us for many years is our common memory, and many of his subsequent songs have accompanied us for many years. r.i.p, may the deceased enjoy eternal peace, may he be well in heaven.

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