The official YouTube channel for Japanese boy band JO1 has started streaming a music video for "Meguriboshi," the theme song for the upcoming sci-fi anime feature film AS ONE . Under the artist name RUKI , the song was sung, wrote, composed and self-produced by the band member Ruki Shiroiwa , who also voices the male protagonist of the film, Yoh. RUKI "Meguriboshi" Music Video RUKI shared the following comment on the music video : Based on the movie "AS ONE," we expressed the real world where Yoh lives and the unreal world where Rako lives in this music video. Additionally, we used CG to create a starry sky and a time-leaping atmosphere. It's a catchy song, so we hope you'll listen to it many times! "Meguriboshi" released digitally on August 13. "Meguriboshi" digital jacket AS ONE Main Trailer Featuring "Meguriboshi" RELATED: AS ONE Anime Movie Releases New Trailer Featuring RUKI Theme Song AS ONE is set to release in Japan on August 22, 2025 . Kobun Shizuno ( the Case Closed/Detective Conan film series) serves as director, alongside character designer Yoshiyuki Sadamoto ( Neon Genesis Evangelion , The Girl Who Leapt Through Time ) and mechanical designer Ippei Gyoubu ( Mobile Suit GUNDAM Iron Blooded Orphans , and Mobile Suit Gundam the Witch from Mercury ). The anime film is based on Square Enix's arcade game Starwing Paradox , which originally released in Japan in November 2018. It will serve as a prequel to the game's story, taking place 20 years before the game. The synopsis reads (translated): Present-day Earth. Yoh, a high school student who aspires to become a musician, is troubled by his parents' opposition and his bandmates' relationships, and is undecided about his future. One day, as Yoh walks through a Shibuya intersection, a voice echoes in his brain, “Help!" and he is enveloped in a white light. Meanwhile, Meguriboshi floats in space. Just as a ceremony was about to be held to mediate a truce between the Va Led Sei Kingdom and the Ko Country A Slegga, which had been at war for a long time over the energy source "Hoshi no Chi" ("star blood"), a huge piece of orbital debris fall,s and Vigo of the Purugard team was frantically dealing with the situation. Rako, a robot mechanic, takes off in a plane that is still in the process of being serviced to save Vigo, but she finds herself in a critical situation. After a brief flash of light, Rako's heavily damaged plane is able to move the debris to the surface of the sea, but she loses consciousness. Rako, in a coma, meets Yoh in her consciousness. What is the meaning of the encounter between Yoh and Rako? And what is the fate that awaits Yoh and Rako, two in one? RELATED: AS ONE Anime Film Reveals New Trailer Sources: JO1 official YouTube channel / website , Billboard Japan
