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Airi Kijima
Airi Kijima is a Japanese singer, actress and radio personality from Tokyo. Her career includes solo records, Ebisu Muscats, television drama and photography projects, followed by a new chapter she announced in 2025.
Airi Kijima
The person behind the name
Known to her audience as Kijii, Airi Kijima has worked across recording studios, concert stages and screen productions. She joined the original Ebisu Muscats in 2012 and entered adult film in 2013. Music developed alongside that career, beginning with her first solo single in 2015.
Her later projects include a radio series, a photographic exhibition and a book based on her life. In September 2025, she described moving on from twelve years as an adult performer to focus on work as a singer and entertainer. She continues to describe expression, in its different forms, as an important part of her life.
Photography, memory and a fifth anniversaryAn early place on stage
Kijima joined the original Ebisu Muscats as a ninth-generation member in 2012. The group brought together singing, television and live performance. Her time in that first incarnation was brief; she later returned to a new generation of the group in 2020.
Acting was another early interest. In a 2022 interview, she recalled studying performance and particularly enjoying work built around a dramatic role. She spoke about becoming more confident over time, with encouragement from audiences and friendships with colleagues helping her feel less isolated.
Building a solo catalogue
Kimi e Todoke introduced Kijima as a solo recording artist in February 2015. Her first album, DIARY, followed in February 2016 through Milky Pop Generation, with seven tracks including Melody Road, Rain Story and My Holy Night.
Scarlet arrived as her second single in October 2017. In December 2020, Tokyo resistance marked her major-label debut. Released by Blue Music Entertainment and distributed by Pony Canyon, its six songs included Resistance and Mayonaka no Cafeteria alongside material from her earlier catalogue.
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A band, a guitar and KIJIMANIA
Her first KIJIMANIA solo concert took place in March 2017. For the second edition in 2018, she announced a larger venue and a live-band programme combining her original songs with covers. She also told her audience that she would play guitar.
That plan shows how her stage work extended beyond releasing recordings. Arrangements, a supporting band and the shape of a full concert were part of the experience she wanted to create. A third KIJIMANIA concert followed in May 2019.
Characters on screen, conversation on radio
In 2016, Kijima appeared in A Bride for Rip Van Winkle and played Nana in the third season of Yamikin Ushijima-kun. These credits sit alongside her other screen work and her interest in dramatic performance.
Her radio programme Kiji Raji began in 2019, giving her a recurring space for conversation. In August 2025, its producer confirmed that the programme would continue on an irregular schedule after her adult-industry departure. The announcement kept radio within the next phase of her public work.
A life translated into a book
Kanojo no Real: Dramatic janai nante Shitteta was published by Kawade Shobo Shinsha in October 2023. The book draws on Kijima’s personal experiences and the path toward her professional debut. It combines a narrative account with photography and audio material.
The collaboration has distinct credits: Kijima provided the original story, while novelist Ushio Takai wrote the prose. That distinction matters when describing the work. At 192 pages, it gave her life story a different format from an interview, a performance or a short social post.
The quieter interests around the work
In her introduction on note, Kijima listed reading, films, older music, cooking and walking her dog among the things she enjoys. She began writing there as another way to share thoughts and connect with readers, describing curiosity about experiences still ahead.
Her favourite colour is blue. Asked in an earlier interview about the colour she wanted for her future, she imagined a stronger, many-coloured identity that could hold different kinds of work. Music, acting, conversation and writing have each given that wish a practical form.
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