R&B singer Crystal Kay (22) has lined up her first anime theme song. Her song “One” will be used as the main theme for this summer’s Pocket Monsters movie. The 11th theatrical release, “Pocket Monsters Diamond and Pearl. Giratina to Sora no Hanataba: Sheimi” (Giratina and the Bouquet of the Sky), opens in theaters on July 19. The production team had wanted to team up with the singer since her song “Lost Child” was used for the 2001 movie “Satorare”. In turn, Kay says she was a fan of the English dub of Pokemon when she was a student at a Tokyo international school. “One” will be released for mobile phone downloads on March 8, when the movie trailer hits cinemas.
• Yesterday pop group Exile were presented with the Gold Disc Award for Artist of the Year. The award goes to the artist with the highest CD sales for the year, and for a change it wasn’t Koda Kumi. The 7-member group sold 2.3 million albums and 1.1 million singles in 2007, and with downloads included they had a sales total of ¥15.4 billion.
• Singer Oishi Madoka (35) announced yesterday that she married a securities company employee (35) on Monday. The date was the anniversary of her arrival in Tokyo from her hometown of Hakodate back in 1991. The couple, who first met in the autumn of 2006, are planning a wedding ceremony this autumn.