- 11.30 AM
- July 14, 2026
Bingkai Karya – TOMONARI SORA just reached back into his own teenage years and handed you the song he never meant to show anyone.
He wrote “ペダル PEDAL” in high school and it sat untouched for years until now, rearranged but rooted in exactly where it started: a song about summer, about a bicycle, about being young enough to believe you could pedal anywhere and never run out of road.
Trams cutting through town. The smell of rain right before it hits. The colour the sky turns just before it gives way to night. These are the small details TOMONARI SORA builds the song from, ones you only remember because you actually lived inside them once. That’s what “ペダルPEDAL” gets right: it doesn’t try to perform nostalgia, it just quietly hands you a memory that feels like your own.
The timing isn’t incidental either. TOMONARI SORA wrapped his one-man solo tour on 7 July, and this release lands a day later alongside a new artist profile photo one chapter closing just as an old one gets pulled back into the light. There’s something fitting about an artist ending a tour by returning to who he was before any of this started.
For most of its runtime, the song stays light, airy and breezy, built for a bike ride rather than a spotlight. Then a saxophone solo shifts the mood entirely, and suddenly you’re seventeen again.
TOMONARI SORA didn’t write “ペダル PEDAL” to be a single. He wrote it to remember something. Now, for the first time, so can you.
About TOMONARI SORA
TOMONARI SORA is a next-generation singer-songwriter who burst onto the J-pop scene like a comet, with each release rapidly becoming a viral hit.
Known for his instantly addictive melodies, humour laced with an eerie edge and bite, and a distinctly Japanese aesthetic, he has quickly become a talking point in the industry. His January 2024 release “鬼ノ宴 Demons Banquet” has surpassed 160 million streams, while related social media content has accumulated over 1.6 billion views. His May 2024 track “Niramekko” also went viral, followed by the widely discussed ending theme “咆哮 – HOKO” for the sixth season of the TV anime Kingdom in October 2025. In November 2025, he digitally released his first full album, “文明開化 – East West”.
Since childhood, TOMONARI SORA has dreamed of creating his own “nation”. Believing music to be the closest “world” where people can take refuge from the difficulties of life, he began teaching himself songwriting in the fourth grade of elementary school.
A true multi-talented creator, he handles not only lyrics, composition, and arrangement, but also his own illustrations and artwork.
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