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In 2018, “Masshiro” gained major attention as a TV drama insert song, reaching No. 2 on the iTunes overall album chart. His opening themes for the Black Clover series have remained long-running hits, with “Black Catcher” ranking in the TOP 10 of Spotify’s “Most-Streamed Songs by Japanese Artists Outside Japan” for three consecutive years from 2020, and he has surpassed 1.5 million monthly listeners. Total streams across streaming services have exceeded 800 million.
On Wednesday, September 4, 2024, he released his fifth full-length album, Knightclub. Internationally, he completed his own headlining North American tour and Latin American tour in 2024. In 2025 he staged the largest tour of his career across the Americas and Japan — the “VK Blanka North America & Japan Tour 2025” — playing North America in May and seven cities in Japan from June, followed by his first-ever Asia tour in Hong Kong, Taipei, and Seoul in October and November.
On Saturday, April 25, 2026, he released his first collaboration with Novel Core with the single “Beast ≠ Knight (feat. Novel Core).” October marks the start of his 10th anniversary year, with major tie-ups and a range of activities planned.
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