Record-Breaking J-Pop Phenom Kenshi Yonezu Debuts New Animated Music Video for Collaboration With Hikaru Utada 'Jane Doe'

FEATURING NEWLY REANIMATED SEQUENCES FROM CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC – WATCH HERE

MEANWHILE HIS CHAINSAW MAN SERIES THEME & RIAA-PLATINUM CERTIFIED SINGLE “KICK BACK” SURPASSES 500 MILLION STREAMS ON SPOTIFY – LISTEN HERE

TOKYO, JAPAN– Chart-topping J-pop superstar KENSHI YONEZU unveils a new, fully animated music video for “JANE DOE,” the ending theme to CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC and collaboration with J-pop icon HIKARU UTADA. Incorporating newly reanimated sequences from CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC, the music video brings the intertwined destinies of the film's main characters Denji and Reze into sharp, emotional focus. A deeply moving visual experience, the new visual begins with Denji and Reze's fateful meeting inside a phone booth during a sudden downpour, capturing the fleeting spark of youth shared between the two and subtly foreshadowing the inevitable, heartbreaking turn awaiting them – watch here.

Today's new video arrives as CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC continues its massive success, playing in more than 100 countries and topping the worldwide box office. Its continued global success at theaters worldwide coincides with yet another milestone for Kenshi Yonezu's opening theme to the film, “IRIS OUT,” which has officially surpassed 100 million streams on Spotify. “IRIS OUT” rocket started at Top 5 of the Billboard Global 200 chart, becoming the highest-ever charting position for a Japanese language song for two consecutive weeks, and ranked No. 2 on the “Global Excl. U.S.” chart, while his ending theme song for the film, “JANE DOE,” in collaboration with HIKARU UTADA, also entered at No. 10 on the same chart, marking the first time a Japanese artist had two songs simultaneously ranked in the Top 10 on the chart. Meanwhile Yonezu's opening theme to the Chainsaw Man series, “KICK BACK” officially surpassed 500 million streams on Spotify, following its historic RIAA Platinum certification, which marked the first-ever Japanese language song to reach platinum certification nearly three years after its release.

His 2020 album STRAY SHEEP set a record of 1.9 million copies sold with the highest-placing Japanese artist ever to appear on the IFPI year-end global ranking chart. He continued to work tirelessly during the COVID-19 pandemic, including performing as the first Asian in a virtual concert hosted by the online game Fortnite. Collaborated globally with UNIQLO on their UT collection with the storefront collaboration displays in NY and other 8 UNIQLO stores worldwide. He was awarded an AAC Award, listed in Forbes' 100 Asian Digital Stars, and received the Minister of NEWS RELEASE Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology's Art Encouragement Prize for New Artists. 

In 2022, he released “M87” as the theme song for the film Shin Ultraman, and “POP SONG” as the theme song for a PlayStation commercial. His single “KICK BACK,” the opening theme for the TV anime CHAINSAW MAN, made Spotify's Global Top 50, and became the first Japanese-language song certified Gold by RIAA®. He was also selected as the first and only Japanese artist to be a part of the “RIAA Class of 2023”, with which the association summarized the artists who had flourished in the year. 

In 2023, Yonezu released “Tsuki Wo Miteita - Moongazing” as the theme song for the RPG game Final Fantasy XVI, and “Chikyugi - Spinning Globe” – the theme song Studio Ghibli's animated film The Boy and the Heron (Academy Award Winner for Best Animated Feature, 2024), directed by Hayao Miyazaki. 

In August 2024, Yonezu wrote “Garakuta – JUNK”, the theme song of the movie LAST MILE, and released his sixth studio album, LOST CORNER. In September, Yonezu released an exclusive line of graphic tees in collaboration with UNIQLO, as part of their ongoing UT series celebrating pop culture from around the world. After 11 years, Hachi (Kenshi Yonezu) himself created a new illustration for the VOCALOID song “Donut Hole”, and a fully animated music video based on the illustration. Original chocolate was also released from Godiva Japan as the “GODIVA x HACHI Donut Hole Collection” from October as the first time for Godiva worldwide to create a chocolate collection lineup in collaboration with an artist. In November Yonezu released “Azalea”, a song written as the theme song for the global Netflix series Beyond Goodbye. For the first time in 6 years, appeared at Kohaku Uta Gassen. 

In 2025, Yonezu released “Plazma”, a theme to the film Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning- and also the theme to its anime series Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX -Beginning-. He then released the theme to the anime series Medalist with a collaboration music video between Kenshi Yonezu and the Winter Olympics gold Medalist Yuzuru Hanyu. Yonezu kicked off his largest-scaled world tour, KENSHI YONEZU 2025 WORLD TOUR / JUNK after performing domes in Japan, toured Asia, Europe, and the U.S., drew a total of 440,000 people. In September, he dropped “IRIS OUT”, the official theme for the new film CHAINSAW MAN – THE MOVIE: REZE ARC, and its ending theme "JANE DOE.” “IRIS OUT” placed at Top 5 of the Billboard Global 200 chart, becoming the highest-ever charting position for a Japanese language song for two consecutive weeks, and ranked No. 2 on the “Global Excl. U.S.” chart, while his ending theme song for the film, “JANE DOE,” in collaboration with HIKARU UTADA, also entered at No. 10 on the same chart, marking the first time a Japanese artist had two songs simultaneously ranked in the Top 10 on the chart. In October he released his new song, “1991,” the theme for the theatrical version of 2007 cult classic 5 CENTIMETERS PER SECOND. Kenshi Yonezu announced his new tour, KENSHI YONEZU 2026 TOUR / GHOST— a 6-city, 14-show arena headliner across Japan. The tour will kick off in Nagano on November 6, 2026, and will travel through Osaka, Aichi, Fukuoka, Miyagi, and Kanagawa, concluding on December 17.

As for Yonezu's music videos, “Lemon” has surpassed 940 million views, continuing to break the records of Japanese artists.  It is one of the 17 music videos of his songs that garnered him a commanding record of surpassing 100 million views each (“Lemon,” “Eine Kleine,” “LOSER,” “Peace Sign,” “Haiirotoao (+Masaki Suda),” “orion,” “Flamingo,” “Kanden,” “Fireworks,” “Paprika,” “Shunrai,” “Uma to Shika,” “Spirits of the Sea,” “KICK BACK,” Foorin's “Paprika” and Masaki Suda's “Machigaisagashi,” “Sayonara, Mata Itsuka! – Sayonara”). He has over 8.21 million subscribers on his official YouTube channel.