Megan Thee Stallion Recruits Jujutsu Kaisen Voice Star for Tune Introductory, Fulfilling Long Fandom Fantasize

It’s clear that rap artist Megan Thee Stallion is just one of the most significant anime followers in the songs market. Therefore, one track on her self-titled LP, Otaku Hot Woman, not just satisfied anime followers’ desires, yet it likewise confirmed the sizes Megan would certainly go to obtain her anime anthem accepted.

In the lead-up to her 3rd LP’s launch, the forthright anime follower teased followers stating her track, Otaku Hot Woman, would certainly have an anime example that she functioned truly tough to clear. When her cd lastly went down on June 28, followers beelined to the track and found that the anime the out-and-proud “weeb and a baddie” experienced was the business bumper for the 2nd period of the mega-popular shonen anime Jujutsu Kaisen. The Houston rap artist really did not simply quit at the example; she likewise employed Yuji Itadori English dub voice star Adam McArthur to tell the tune’s introduction.

megan thee stallion tasting a jujutsu kaisen track and obtaining yuji itadori’s english VA (adam mcarthur) to tell the introduction like she is so outrageous for this lmfkskdkskdr#MEGAN #JJK pic.twitter.com/eUgCo7l3Sn

— springkies (@jekkibby2) June 28, 2024

It notes a full-circle minute for Jujutsu Kaisen followers due to the fact that it referenced a 2021 fandom meme where McArthur transformed a renowned line concerning Itadori suching as “high chicks like Jennifer Lawrence” to Megan Thee Stallion. It must be kept in mind that McArthur did the fan-requested compensation free of cost, has it pinned to his official X/Twitter page, and has actually been regularly stated by the anime voice star– to excellent praise– at various anime conventions.

Megan’s background with anime, even more particularly Jujutsu Kaisen, runs also much deeper than the fan-requested name decline. Given that Jujutsu Kaisen initially premiered in late 2020, Megan has actually included fan-favorite personality Satoru Gojo to her rotation of Instagram cosplay pictures, offered Jujutsu Kaisen’s Crunchyroll 2024 Anime of the Year Honor, and invited Jujutsu Kaisen cosplayers on the stage to dance while on her Warm Woman Summer season scenic tour. The victory followers are experiencing with Otaku Hot Woman reverberates even more when you take into consideration the “8 million hoops” she needed to go with to guarantee the track saw the light of day.

Megan Thee Stallion talks on taking care of example clearance concerns and needing to alter names and words on a tune the day prior to her cd declines. pic.twitter.com/9lSpaguF6J

— XXL Publication (@XXL) June 27, 2024

Throughout an Instagram reside on June 26– 2 days prior to the cd’s launch– Megan exposed that she encountered last-second clearance concerns with the anime’s workshop. According to Rolling Stone, Megan was informed she would certainly either need to ditch the anime example or eliminate every one of her recommendations to personality names in order to maintain clearance legal rights to the tune. Billboard reports that Megan rerecorded Otaku Hot Woman in a makeshift workshop hours prior to her Dallas program on June 11 to obtain the tune removed.

” I truly wish y’ all assume this crap audio fire, ’cause I needed to leap with 8 million hoops to obtain this crap. When y’ all listen to the example, y’ all are gon na recognize why they was offering us a tough time,” Megan claimed. “This is a huge manufacturing firm so for them to also state yes– and I be cussing and crap– like I claimed, I’m happy. I’m not whining. I truly desired this example. I truly intended to do it, so I’m doing every little thing I reached do to maintain it. However alter the names? Adjustment the names the day prior to the cd out? That was nuts.”

@ign There are a lot of computer game recommendations in Megan Thee Stallion’s BOA video! #megantheestallion #boa #music #video #games #spacechannel5 #crashbandicoot #onepiece #mortalkombat #ddr #roomba #tekken #scottpilgrim #streetfighter #soulcalibur #spongebob #squidward #ign #sidebyside #reference #easteregg #gaming #gamingontiktok ♬ original sound – IGN

Megan’s LP isn’t simply chock-full of smart anime recommendations; she likewise revealed some love to the players of the globe with her video for Boa. In the track– which recommendations One Item personality Boa Hancock– Megancalled back to a plethora of video games Secret amongst them are Accident Bandicoot, Person Kombat, Dancing Dancing Transformation, Road Competitor, and Tekken. In instance Megan’s fondness for computer game was still concerned, Boa’s solitary covers paidhomage to the PlayStation 2’s video game box art

In our evaluation for Jujutsu Kaisen Period 2, we provided the collection a 6/10, stating, “Jujutsu Kaisen uses lots of phenomenon, yet little else throughout the Shibuya Occurrence Arc.”

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Isaiah Colbert is an independent author for IGN. You can follow them on Twitter @ShinEyeZehUhh.