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Yuiko Ōhara Performs New Opening Song for Hana Kappa Anime
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
New song "Egao no Mahō" debuts on April 1
The official website of the Hana Kappa children's television anime announced on Friday that Yuiko Ōhara will perform the anime's new theme song "Egao no Mahō" (The Magic of Smiles). The new song will debut on the show on April 1.
The anime adapts Tadashi Akiyama's Hana Kappa-kun picture books and newspaper manga about a kappa (mystical Japanese river creature) who happens to have a flower (hana) growing out of his head. Hana Kappa lives with his father, mother, grandfather, and grandmother in a verdant village known as Yamabiko.
The anime has been running on NHK Educational since 2010.
The anime inspired an anime film in 2013.