JO☆STARS

JO☆STARS is a Japanese vocal unit formed by Hiroaki "TOMMY" Tominaga, Coda, and Jin Hashimoto. Before forming the group, the members of the trio individually sang the opening themes for JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: The Animation and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders.

They formed the JO☆STARS trio in 2015 for the second half of the Stardust Crusaders anime, performing the opening theme song "JoJo Sono Chi no Kioku ~end of THE WORLD~".

Biography

JO☆STARS won the theme song award of The 20th Animation Kobe in 2015. They held their first single live concert at Zepp Diver City Tokyo on May, 2016. Due to the popularity of that concert, they held an additional live concert at Akasaka BLITZ. For the final episode of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable on December 24, 2016, they sang Great Days UNITS ver. together with THE DU, batta, Karen Aoki, and Daisuke Hasegawa, altering their group name to be JO☆UNITED.

In March 2017, JO☆STARS performed an acoustic live tour at eight locations in Japan entitled "JO☆STARS Acoustic Session 2017 ~ Season 1". Along with Daisuke Hasegawa, they made their debut in the United States as guests for Saboten Con 2017 in Phoenix, Arizona, marking the first time that a JoJo's Bizarre Adventure concert was held in the US.^[1]

In 2022, JO☆STARS released their debut mini-album to accompany their national tour of Japan in May 2022. They are releasing 3 of the songs as digital singles leading up to the album's release, starting with "A man called a Hero" for January 1, 2022, which is TOMMY's image song as written by JIN; other songs from the mini-album will be released over the following 3 months.^[2] The second single "You make me..." released on February 1 and is Coda's song as written by TOMMY.^[3] The third single "Dramatic Blue" released on March 1 and is JIN's song as written by Coda. A fourth single "Never End (Acoustic Ver.)" was released on April 1, 2022, as well as the announcement that the mini-album would be titled Sessions to be released on May 21, 2022.^[4] On April 14, 2022, the FIREWORKS Twitter account put up a pre-order page for the Sessions mini-album, revealing the 5th track on the album would be "JO☆STARS Net Zadankai Theme Song" (JO☆STARS ネット座談会テーマソング), as featured in their monthly live streams.

Discography

#	Album / Single Name	Artist	Use	Release Date
1	JoJo Sono Chi no Kioku ~end of THE WORLD~ (ジョジョその血の記憶～end of THE WORLD～)	JO☆STARS ～TOMMY, Coda, JIN～	SC Episodes 25-48	January 28, 2015
2	Great Days UNITS ver.	JO☆UNITED (Hiroaki "TOMMY" Tominaga, Coda, Jin Hashimoto, Jun Shirota, Taisuke Wada, Jeity, Tatsu Hoshino, Karen Aoki, Daisuke Hasegawa)	DU Episode 39	December 24, 2016
3	Never End	JO☆STARS ～TOMMY, Coda, JIN～	N/A	Unreleased
4	A man called a Hero	JO☆STARS	N/A	January 1, 2022
5	You make me...	JO☆STARS	N/A	February 1, 2022
6	Dramatic Blue	JO☆STARS	N/A	March 1, 2022
7	Never End (Acoustic Ver.)	JO☆STARS	N/A	April 1, 2022
8	Sessions	JO☆STARS	N/A	May 21, 2022