24 Facts About Kimeru

Kimeru is a Japanese pop musician, singer, and stage actor.

Kimeru is most famous for his work with The Prince of Tennis.

Kimeru adopted the stage name Kimeru, which means "to decide" in Japanese, before debuting.

Kimeru followed up this release one year later with "Make You Free", which was used as an opening song for later episodes of TeniPuri.

The rising popularity of the musical brought rising popularity to his music, and on November 27,2003 Kimeru released his first mini-album, The Beginning.

Kimeru was struck so hard by his friend's accident that when he released his third single, "OVERLAP", he dedicated its coupling song, "Oath in the Storm", to Yanagi.

Kimeru returned to his role of Fuji when Yuya Endo was brought in as the new Echizen.

At the beginning of 2005, for his last show in Tenmiyu - Side Fudomine - Kimeru was reunited with a recovered Kotaro Yanagi, who would share the role of Echizen with Endo.

Not losing any steam, Kimeru released his fifth single "The Pleasure of Love", as well as toured yet again, adding two new stops to his route.

Kimeru's popularity was growing, and on May 21,2005, he performed in his first seated live house.

Kimeru added an extra stop in Hiroshima as well as performed on two different days for Nagoya and Tokyo.

At the start of 2006, Kimeru departed on another tour to promote Glorious, kicking off at the Kouseinunkin Hall in Tokyo on New Years Day, and hand-signing over 1000 posters that would be given out to each attendee.

Kimeru was rewarded the "Rookie of the Year" award from Nippon Crown.

Kimeru's visit resulted after his fans in China continuously mailed letters and presents to a place in Beijing called the "Japanese Music Information Center ".

Kimeru had Yoshinori Sugimoto, former guitarist and founder of the J-Rock band Waive, as a special guest.

Anticipation rose for the single when Kimeru announced the PV for Timeless would feature some of his old castmates from Tenimyu: Sota Aoyama, Eiji Takigawa, and Naoya Gomoto.

At the beginning of 2007, Kimeru released his much anticipated 2nd album, Galaxy Kiss.

Shortly after the release of the album, Kimeru performed at his second "Ark" special celebrating his 5th Anniversary.

Kimeru shared the role with his Tenimyu replacement, Hiroki Aiba.

Kimeru returned to the stage to star in the musical Titanic.

Kimeru released a new album, entitled Discover, on his birthday.

Kimeru returned to his role as Shusuke Fuji and reunite with the 1st generation Seigaku cast to perform in Tenimyu's Dream Live 7th.

Kimeru then took part in another stage play called Shounen Hollywood, which co-starred fellow TeniMyu cast member Takashi Nagayama.

Kimeru was a guest at Tenimyu's Dream Live 2013,10 year anniversary.