{"id":633,"date":"2003-02-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-02-04T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2003\/02\/04\/ask-john-are-boa-and-boa-the-same-group\/"},"modified":"2009-03-26T14:38:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-26T18:38:06","slug":"ask-john-are-boa-and-ba-the-same-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/ask-john-are-boa-and-ba-the-same-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask John: Are BOA and b&ouml;a the Same Group?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question:<\/strong><br \/>\nRecently I&#8217;ve been downloading songs by BOA.  She&#8217;s from Korea, sings in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and English.  I was wondering, is she the same girl that sings the opening song for Lain, &#8220;Duvet&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><strong>Answer:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.avexnet.or.jp\/boa\/top.html\" target=\"_blank\">BoA<\/a> is a teenage Korean pop star who&#8217;s achieved celebrity status in Japan.  She performed the song &#8220;Every Heart&#8221; which was used as the fourth ending theme for Inuyasha. The song &#8220;Duvet,&#8221; used as the opening theme to Serial Experiments Lain, was performed by the British pop\/fusion group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boaweb.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">b\u00ef\u00bf\u00bda<\/a>. While their names are similar, BoA and b\u00ef\u00bf\u00bda are totally unrelated artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Recently I&#8217;ve been downloading songs by BOA. She&#8217;s from Korea, sings in Korean, Chinese, Japanese, and English. I was wondering, is she the same girl that sings the opening song for Lain, &#8220;Duvet&#8221;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-john"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15161,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions\/15161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}