Araki

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Araki (あらき) is an  with a strong, clear chest voice that can easily hit high notes. He is also capable of doing harmonies and often screams in his covers. He can also sing English songs without a noticeable accent, as shown in his cover of "About me".

His most popular solo cover is "ECHO" with 6.7 million views and 59k mylists, and his most popular collab cover is "Mousou Kanshou Daishou Renmei"  with nqrse, which has gained 3.1 million views and 33k mylists as of January 2019.

He tends to change the keys of songs he covers, and often includes little melodic sequences within them. He also categorizes his covers using a 5-star system ranging from '☆☆☆☆☆' (no arrangements & harmonies) to '★★★★★' (full arrangement), which can often be found in the description of his covers.

The name Araki was derived from the creator of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Hirohiko Araki. In addition, he is often depicted with an apple for a head due to the fact that his home prefecture, Aomori, is well-known for its apples.

Affiliations and Collaboration Projects

 * Member of AXIZ with Shino (guitar) and A1 (bass)
 * XYZ Tour cast member
 * 1)  (Released on July 16, 2014)
 * 2)  (Released on March 15, 2015)
 * 3)  (Released on December 31, 2015)
 * 4)  (Released on March 16, 2016)
 * 5) NEGATIVE (Released on December 31, 2016)
 * 6) Tasogare Archive (Released on December 29, 2017)
 * 7) High End Prince (Released on December 29, 2017)
 * 8) Synchronicity (Released on August 10, 2018)

Collaboration Units

 * Aranaru (あらなる) with nqrse

Discography
For Aranaru albums see here

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Trivia

 * He was born in Aomori, and is currently living in Tokyo.
 * His favorite band is Fall Out Boy. He attended their concert at Shinkiba STUDIO COAST on March 23, 2017.
 * He is lactose intolerant.
 * He enjoys cooking, and often posts pictures of the food he makes on his Twitter and Instagram.
 * He owns two ragamuffin cats named Rafute and Mozuku. Rafute is a male red tabby and Mozuku is a female silver chinchilla. Rafute has his own LINE stickers.