| "Gera Gera Po" | ||||
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| Single by King Cream Soda | ||||
| from the album Yo-kai Watch Music Best - First Season | ||||
| Released | April 30, 2014 | |||
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| Length | 4:11 | |||
| Label | FRAME | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Mototaka Segawa | |||
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"Gera Gera Po" (Japanese: ゲラゲラポーのうた, Hepburn: Geragerapō no Uta, lit. "The Hahaha Song"), also known as "Gera Gera Po Song", is the debut single by the Japanese music group King Cream Soda, consisting of Maiko, Gerapper, and ZZROCK.[a] Releasing on April 30, 2014, the song was used as the opening to the 2014 television series Yo-kai Watch through the series' 36th episode in the Japanese version, which aired on August 12, 2016. An English version of the song also served as the theme song in the English version for the first nine episodes, after which it alternated with "Yo-kai Watch feat. Swampy Marsh" before being replaced by the latter song entirely after the 17th episode. The Japanese version was written by Move's Mototaka Segawa and was performed by King Cream Soda; the English version was written by Mark Risley and David H. Steinberg and was performed by Peter Michail and Kathryn Lynn.
Multiple remixes and renditions of "Gera Gera Po" have been released by King Cream Soda and Level-5, the creators of the Yo-kai Watch franchise, such as "Matsuribayashi de Geragerapo",[2] and "Hatsukoi-tōge de geragerapō", "Gera Gera Po" was also included in King Cream Soda's 2015 album Bye Bye Geragerapo.[3]
"Gera Gera Po" peaked at number 4 on Oricon's Singles Chart[4] and was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan.[5]
- ^ "【サタデープラス】「妖怪ウォッチ」主題歌作曲・菊谷知樹さんに聞くアニメのいろは". Sports Hochi (in Japanese). Hochi Shimbun. Archived from the original on November 29, 2014. Retrieved January 6, 2021.
- ^ "ゲラッポ・ダンストレイン(DVD付)" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ^ "バイバイゲラゲラポー(DVD付)" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ^ "ゲラゲラポーのうた" (in Japanese). Oricon. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
- ^ "The Record vol. 659" (PDF) (in Japanese). Recording Industry Association of Japan. October 2014. Retrieved January 5, 2021.
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