KOTOKO (real name 堀川ことこ—Horikawa Kotoko), born on January 19, 1980 in Sappo… Read Full Bio ↴KOTOKO (real name 堀川ことこ—Horikawa Kotoko), born on January 19, 1980 in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan, is a female j-pop electronic/dance vocalist whose songs draws on electro rock, techno and trance. She has released five albums (three associated with Geneon and two associated with I've Sound), twelve maxi singles (seventeen overall) and two DVDs that were released in the US.

She also composes and writes lyrics (for herself as well as other singers in I've Sound) for numerous other song collections. She frequently works with the producers I've Sound, and has contributed songs to numerous anime and video games including Onegai Teacher, Mahou Shoujo Tai Arusu, Onegai Twins, Ren'ai CHU!, Maria-sama ga Miteru, Hayate the Combat Butler, Colorful Kiss, Kannazuki no Miko, Starship Operators, Shakugan no Shana, and BlazBlue: Calamity Trigger.

In 1999, she became a professional singer. Her first successful audition was with I've Sound, a team of producers using the talents of various female vocalists for their productions—best recognized for their many dating sim and eroge game soundtracks. Since then, she has performed opening and ending themes for a few anime and has gained significant recognition from her two I've Sound-related album releases. Her second album, Garasu no Kaze, released in June 2005 has been praised within multiple online communities. On October 13, 2005, she released her fourth maxi single, which featured a song from her Garasu no Kaze album, "421: A Will" and its B-side song called "Shuusou" (秋爽, The Refreshing Autumn Breeze), which is featured in her third album, Uzu-Maki.

Although not listed on her official Geneon website, KOTOKO has actually released four albums. Her very first album was called, Sora o Tobetara, which was released in 2000. Many of the tracks on this album were later re-recorded for her first I've Sound album, Hane (羽 -hane-, Feather), and was attributed as her first album. Her first I've Sound CD appearance was on the CD "Dear Feeling" (only released at "Comic Market 59".) with previous singer Aki. She then appeared on I've Girls Compilation Album Vol.3 "Disintegration", a series of albums with various songs from the I've Sound singers.

KOTOKO's first official performance in North America was her highly successful American concert debut at Anime Expo 2005, followed soon after by the KOTOKO Lax Tour. Now that her self-composed hybrid of pop and techno beats—sometimes pop—have crossed the Pacific, KOTOKO's lyrics have elevated her presence among thousands of North American J-pop/anime fans.

In 2009 she did the theme song for the Mamoru Oshii live-action movie Assault Girls. The song 蒼-iconoclast has also been featured as the opening theme song to the console version of the widely popular game Blazblue:Calamity Trigger.
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Personality: Quiet, likes making new friends, optimist, caring, emotional, perfectionist, romantic.

Interests: Movies, shopping (online), photography, flowers, darts, softball, dancing, collecting cute things.

I want to go to: Switzerland, Netherlands, Sweden, Morocco, Greece, Egypt, Tuvalu, Bolivia, Nepal, New Zealand, India, Thailand, Australia.

Favorite food: Cherries, and particularly fond of strawberries, actually likes all fruit except melon, noodles, curry soup, avocado, cheese, milk, pudding, mint, cooked rice, chocolate, cookies, coffee.

Favorite things: Music, poetry, movies, the sky, the sea.

Favorite animals: Rabbits, turtles, sheeps, insects.

Dislikes: The dark, narrow spaces, a bad liar, rain, people without dreams.

Dreams: Go to Los Angeles, plant a lemon tree and build a house in the hills with a view on the sea.

Sociometry
KOTOKO Lyrics

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祈る天星に
夢幻のような時が止まる...

いつか届きますか?
空白だらけもつれる声
千の惑星を繋いだように
付かず離れず
ため息つくたび

崩れて行くバランス
重ねた時間を確かに感じたのに
胸の紅蓮で疼くのは
天地不明のparagramme
君の言葉をそっと繰り返した
真っ直ぐに手を伸ばして
過去も未来も触れてみたい
焼ける思いに懸けた今 I believe

積もる鬱事(うつごと)に
"平凡な今日"を愛し始めた
鼓動の限界決めて何が出来るの?
進むと誓った
気持ち嘘じゃないのに...
胸の紅蓮を貫いた
彼女の声はepigram
恐れ断ち切り
空(くう)を睨みつけた
命さえ差し出せると
頷き合う小さな影
守るもののため壊してくirony

落ちた薄片に
風雪のような時が止まる...

胸の紅蓮で軋むのは
不揃いに並ぶtangram
愚問投げ捨てふっと振り返れば
真っ直ぐに瞳向けた
いつかの声が甦る

出逢うその意味を
知りたくて I cleave

Overall Meaning

In KOTOKO's song "Sociometry," the lyrics describe feelings of uncertainty and imbalance. The singer wonders if their voice and dreams will ever reach the stars they pray to. The tangled voices and empty spaces feel like a jumbled puzzle, but they long for balance and stability. Despite feeling the weight of time, their heart aches with a mysterious pain, and they can't untangle their mixed feelings. The singer recalls the words of someone important, and they reach out with a pure heart to touch the past and future. They stand by their burning desires and believe in the power of their convictions.

Line by Line Meaning

祈る天星に夢幻のような時が止まる...
This line talks about stopping time like a dream with prayers to the stars.

いつか届きますか?
The line expresses hope and anticipation for a message or communication to arrive someday.

空白だらけもつれる声千の惑星を繋いだように付かず離れずため息つくたび崩れて行くバランス重ねた時間を確かに感じたのに
This line portrays the chaos and confusion of emotions and time, where the balance crumbles despite feeling each accumulated moment distinctly and connecting like a thousand planets.

胸の紅蓮で疼くのは天地不明のparagramme
The line implies that the pain in the heart comes from a mysterious, unknown connection, almost like a puzzle or enigma.

君の言葉をそっと繰り返した真っ直ぐに手を伸ばして過去も未来も触れてみたい焼ける思いに懸けた今 I believe
This line talks about believing in reaching for the future and past with a burning passion, repeating words softly and stretching hands towards it with determination.

積もる鬱事(うつごと)に "平凡な今日"を愛し始めた鼓動の限界決めて何が出来るの? 進むと誓った気持ち嘘じゃないのに...
This line describes the feeling of starting to love the ordinary today amidst a pile of depressing issues, questioning what can be done with the limits of heartbeats, and promising to move forward despite feeling genuine emotions.

胸の紅蓮を貫いた彼女の声はepigram 恐れ断ち切り空(くう)を睨みつけた命さえ差し出せると頷き合う小さな影守るもののため壊してくirony
This line is about piercing the heart with a voice that breaks down fear, staring into the vast sky with determination, affirming to sacrifice even life itself for the sake of protection, and breaking down irony to safeguard something.

落ちた薄片に風雪のような時が止まる...
This line talks about the wind and snow-like time stopping as if in a dream with a fallen piece.

胸の紅蓮で軋むのは不揃いに並ぶtangram 愚問投げ捨てふっと振り返れば真っ直ぐに瞳向けたいつかの声が甦る出逢うその意味を知りたくて I cleave
This line talks about experiencing discomfort and confusion as the pieces of life don't seem to fit perfectly like a tangram, but still wanting to know the meaning of why we meet certain voices or people from the past, and looking back to it with a sharp glare and an eager will to understand.

Lyrics © Universal Music Publishing Group
Written by: KOTOKO

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Rezo para as estrelas celestes; o tempo fantasioso pára...

Irá fazer algum dia você ouvir?
A complicada voz preenchida com espaços em branco
Como mil planetas ligados, mas mantedo certa distância

Cada vez que suspiro, o equilíbrio se desfaz
Mesmo que eu sinta o nosso tempo partilhando definitivamente

Um lótus a carmesim são as dores no meu peito
Com um desconhecido paragrama do céu e da terra
Eu suavemente repito as suas palavras
Quero ir em frente com as minhas mãos
Tentar tocar no passado e também no futuro
Suspensa na queima de meus pensamentos, agora eu acredito

Na acumulação de melancolias
Eu comecei a amar o "ordinário de hoje"

Deliberando o limite das minhas pulsações, o que eu posso fazer?
Ainda que a sensação de ter sido escolhida antes não seja mentira...

Sua voz que perfura o vermelho do meu peito é uma epigrama
Ela corta o medo e o brilho no vazio
Pequenas sombras acenam umas as outras,
Mesmo que elas possam oferecer suas vidas
Por razões de coisas que eu quero proteger, eu destruí a ironia

Embora parte de mim caia partemente em camadas,
o tempo pára como uma tempestade de neve...

O rangido com o vermelho do meu peito é um desigual arranjo de tangramas
Se eu puser pra fora as perguntas tolas e, de repente olhar pra atrás
A voz que mandou reta pros meus olhos em outro tempo revive
Eu quero saber o significado da sua união, então eu me decomponho

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Inoru tensei ni mugen no you na toki ga tomaru...

Itsuka todoki me masu ka?
Kuuhaku darake motsureru koe

Sen no wakusei wo tsunaida you ni
Tsukazuhanazeru

Tameiki tsuku tabi kuzurete yuku BARANSU
Kasaneta jikan wo tashikani kanjita noni

Mune no guren de uzuku no ha tenchi fumei no paraguramu
Kimi no kotoba wo sotto kurikaeshita
Massugu ni te wo nobashite kako mo mirai mo furete mitai
Yakeru omoi ni kaketa ima I believe

Tsumoru utsugoto ni
"Heibon na kyou" wo aishi hajimeta

Kodou no genkai kimete nani ga dekiru no?
Susumu to chikatta kimochi uso janai noni

Mune no guren wo tsuranuita kanojo no koe ha epiguramu
Osore tachikiri kuu wo niramitsuketa
Inochi sae sashidaseru to unazukiau chiisana kage
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Mune no guren de kishimu no ha fuzoroi ni narabu tanguramu
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