{"id":31293,"date":"2025-08-28T01:08:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31293"},"modified":"2025-08-29T12:59:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T16:59:22","slug":"anime-nyc-2025-evangelion-singer-yoko-takahashi-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=31293","title":{"rendered":"Anime NYC 2025 : &#8220;Evangelion&#8221; Singer Yoko Takahashi Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@cinemadailyus\"><strong>Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nobuhiro Hosoki<\/strong> grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning Satellite&#8221; at the New York branch office but he didn\u2019t give up on his interest in cinema. He became a film reporter for via Yahoo Japan News. In that role, he writes news articles, picks out headliners for Yahoo News, as well as interviewing Hollywood film directors, actors, and producers working in the domestic circuit in the USA. He also does production interviews for Japanese distributors of American films and for in-theater on-sale programs. He is now the editor-in-chief of Cinemadailyus.com while continuing his work for Japan.<\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31294\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.34.49\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"Yoko Takahashi\" width=\"764\" height=\"950\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.34.49\u202fAM.png 764w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.34.49\u202fAM-241x300.png 241w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.34.49\u202fAM-696x865.png 696w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 764px) 100vw, 764px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Yoko Takahashi<\/strong> made her debut as a solo artist in 1991 with \u201cP.S. I miss you\u201d, which won her New Artist of the year award in both the Japan Record Awards and the Japan Cable Awards. Her best known songs, \u201cA Cruel Angel&#8217;s Thesis\u201d, the theme song for \u201cNEON GENESIS EVANGELION\u201d released in 1995, and &#8220;Soul&#8217;s Refrain&#8221;, the theme song for \u201cNEON GENESIS EVANGELION: DEATH &amp; REBIRTH\u201d (movie) released in 1997, continues to do well to this day. This talented singer boasts a total of 1.75 million copies sold, 2.3 million downloads, and over 120 million streams throughout, for these two songs.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-31295\" src=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM.png\" alt=\"Yoko Takahashi \" width=\"2142\" height=\"1358\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM.png 2142w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM-1024x649.png 1024w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM-768x487.png 768w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM-1536x974.png 1536w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM-2048x1298.png 2048w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM-696x441.png 696w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM-1068x677.png 1068w, https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Screenshot-2025-08-28-at-12.36.54\u202fAM-1920x1217.png 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2142px) 100vw, 2142px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>If you like the article, share your thoughts below!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/nobuhosokigmail-com\/\">Check out more of Nobuhiro&#8217;s articles.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1774669342741533\" data-ad-slot=\"1211148813\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out more of our YouTube Channel\u00a0 Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick&#8217;s &#8220;A Clockwork Orange.\u201d After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo\u2019s program called &#8220;Morning&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31296,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[28226,24031,8067,28224,28225,28223],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Anime NYC 2025 : &quot;Evangelion&quot; Singer Yoko Takahashi Press Conference<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Yoko Takahashi made her debut as a solo artist in 1991 with \u201cP.S. 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