Strawberry Flower


Strawberry Flower is a Japanese virtual band created to perform music for the Nintendo video game franchise Pikmin. In the first years, it was a trio of three Pikmin, the red, yellow and blue Pikmin, and debuted on 6 December 2001 with the single "Ai no Uta". The purple or white Pikmin did not join the group until their 3rd single, "Tane no Uta". Since then, the group has been a quintet until 2017 when they returned with their new single “Song of Hey! Pikmin" and the winged pikmin and rock pikmin joined the group. The vocals for Strawberry Flower are provided by Be.

Members

On 6 December 2001 the group released their debut single Ai no Uta under Nintendo. The song only appeared in the commercials for Pikmin and did not appear in the game itself and these commercials only appeared in Japan and did not appear overseas. It is also featured in Super Smash Bros. Brawl as a hidden song for the Distant Planet stage.
About three months after "Ai no Uta" was released, the group continued with another single, Pikmin Dance, featuring three dance versions of their 2001 single "Ai no Uta".
After a two-year break, the group released another single, Tane no Uta. It was used in the commercials for Pikmin 2. This is also the first Strawberry Flower single with more than three tracks on it. The single also contained a Laugh remix of Ai no Uta. The b-side song is called "Shabondama". This single is rare and out of print. The band later returned in 2017 for the single Song of Hey! Pikmin for Hey! Pikmin, the Pikmin game for the Nintendo 3DS. The song was only used in commercials for Hey! Pikmin in Japan and did not appear overseas.

Discography

Singles