Akane Osawa

Artist

Akane Osawa is a Japanese female entertainer from Osaka Prefecture. She is active across a wide range of fields, centered on variety shows, and is known for her bright and approachable personality. On the anime front, she performed 'Natsuhiboshi', the ending theme for the TV anime Shura no Toki, based on Masatoshi Kawahara's popular swordsman manga. This also served as her debut single as an artist. Layering her straightforward, crystal-clear vocals over a Japanese-style melody that, as the title suggests, evokes a summer starry sky, she shaped it into an ending number that quietly conveys the destinies of the Mutsu practitioners surviving turbulent ages such as the Sengoku and Bakumatsu periods, along with the feelings of those who gently watch over their departing figures.