Itou Kashitarou

Itou Kashitarou (伊東歌詞太郎, Kashitarou Itou), formerly known as weezer, is a singer-songwriter and known for his strong, clear, "refreshing", and earnest-sounding voice, with a narrow, almost quavering vibrato. Although this distinct vibrato is occasionally described as being fluttery and slightly "peculiar", his voice is commonly considered to be "warm" and pleasant to listen to. He is a technically sound singer, capable of hitting notes cleanly and effortlessly as well as having a decent vocal range; he is also very good at controlling his singing volume.

His first upload was in fact not an cover, but an original VOCALOID song titled "Namida ga Koboreru Mae ni" using, after which he was given the  honorific and dubbed FuwamokoP (ふわもこP). In addition to VOCALOID work, he posted a few acoustic and arranged covers on the side under the utaite name weezer; but though they were well-received, their view counts almost never broke the 10K mark. His cover of "Melt", posted in early 2012, was his first breakthrough hit - shortly afterwards, he created a new account, changing his utaite name to Itou Kashitarou. He has since deleted his old account (thus halting his activity as a producer), but despite this, the videos posted on it remain viewable.

He is good friends with Amatsuki, with whom he often collaborates, and is also friends with the illustrator and mangaka Kuwahara Souta, who has illustrated some of his twitter avatars. He is a close, longtime friend of LeftyMonsterP (with whom he forms the unit Itowokashi) and often collaborates with him, including composing songs or having lives together. They have known each other since childhood, and performed together in middle school. Whenever he performs live as Itou Kashitarou, he wears a fox mask, while LeftyMonsterP wears one of several other masks.

His first entry into the utattemita category was an acoustic cover of the pillows' "Strange Chameleon", however his first cover under his present name was "Narisumashi Gengar" , which currently has 198K views and 8.5K mylists. His first hit cover was "Shiwa", which currently has over 381K views on NND and 21.5K mylists, and is the most popular cover of that song; while his most popular solo cover to date is "Children Record" , which currently has 795K views and 32.5K mylists.

Affiliations and Collaboration Projects

 * 1) Member of Smiley*2GS
 * 2) Member of ShimeFive (〆5)
 * 3) Member of Circle of Friends
 * 4) Member of Itowokashi with LeftyMonsterP
 * 5) Natsuiro Lonely Days (ShimeFive (〆5) single) (Released on September 05, 2012)
 * 6) Circle of Friends Vol.1 (Released on December 22, 2012)
 * 7)  (Released on December 31, 2012)
 * 8)  (Released on December 31, 2012)
 * 9) Gakuen Shisoutan (Released on December 31, 2012)
 * 10)  (Released on March 13, 2013)
 * 11)  (Released on April 24, 2013)
 * 12) 2GS First Trip (Released on May 08, 2013)
 * 13) QuaLia with Soraru and Ryo-kun (Released on May 29, 2013)
 * 14)  (Released on May 29, 2013)
 * 15)  (Released on May 29, 2013)
 * 16)  (Released on June 12, 2013)

Discography
For Circle of Friends albums see here For ShimeFive (〆5) albums see here For Smiley*2GS albums see here

Trivia

 * His name comes from the name of the famous Edo period samurai Itou Kashitarou (伊東甲子太郎) with the only difference being the kanji for "kashi" in each; he replaced the kanji 甲子 in the historical Itou Kashitarou's name with 歌詞, the kanji for "lyrics".
 * He is about 180 centimeters (approximately 5'11") tall.
 * He is left-handed.
 * He was born in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, and currently lives in Tokyo.
 * He is an alumni of Aoyama Gakuin University, considered one of the top Christian universities in Japan.
 * His blood type is A.
 * One of his hobbies is memorizing the names of flowers.
 * He considers his strong point "being able to eat anything", while his weak point is his impulsiveness.
 * His favorite food is sushi, and in keeping with his claims of being able to eat anything, he states that he doesn't have a least favorite food.
 * His favorite color is green.
 * His favorite sport is baseball.
 * His favorite manga are Kaiji and Akagi.
 * His favorite book is The Dancing Girl of Izu.
 * His favorite movie is Josee, the Tiger and the Fish.
 * His favorite song is Moriyama Naotarou's "Natsu no Owari".
 * His favorite video games are Persona 3 and Persona 4.
 * Humorously, his favorite animals are listed as "all of them".
 * His favorite thing to say is the English word "something", pronounced phonetically in Japanese, while his favorite word is "fushigi" (不思議, lit. mysterious).
 * His favorite brands are Gibson and Gretsch, both makers of guitars.
 * His favorite place is Tokyo, which he also considers his ideal date location.
 * His favorite thing to do on his days off is composing songs.
 * He claims to have a scent fetish.
 * He considers his type to be "anyone to really listens to a song", and a major turnoff to be "not paying attention to anything but a song's bassline".
 * If he could have one wish of his come true, he would wish for world peace.
 * He is at his happiest when singing a song he likes, and feels happy whenever he sings.
 * The one thing he would "never give up to anyone" is his singing voice.
 * If he won the lottery, he would use the money to build schools in Africa.
 * If the world was about to end, he would spend the last day singing.
 * If he was an animal, he would be either a snake or a fox.
 * He aspired to be a singer ever since he was a child.
 * He considers himself a very bad liar.
 * The most expensive thing he's ever bought is a Gibson J-45 acoustic guitar.
 * He wants to climb Mount Fuji one day.
 * He would like to visit Las Vegas one day.
 * He states that he wouldn't be able to live without an acoustic guitar.
 * If he could eat one thing every day for a month, he would eat kaisen-don (a sashimi rice bowl).
 * He has two white cats named Pon and Mimi.
 * He is known to like Studio Ghibli very much.
 * He often wears a fox mask during lives when performing as Itou Kashitarou (presumably to preserve a sense of anonymity, though this is not the case when he is performing with the sailers).