Biography

Misono is a Japanese pop singer who has seldom acted. She followed her older sister Kumi Koda into the music business, but she has not achieved the sales or fame of her sister (who has been a superstar in Japan for over a decade). In an industry in which performers often try to capitalize on any association they have with someone more famous, Misono made the unusual choice to deemphasize her connection to Kumi Koda by using only her given name professionally. So she is known as Misono, not Koda Misono (in Japan, family names precede given names.) Misono made her professional debut in 2002 as part of the group Day After Tomorrow. She became a solo performer in 2006 when the group broke up. She has released several top-10 singles and six albums.
- IMDb mini biography by: Abe Rikki

Misono is a solo singer, former vocalist of day after tomorrow, and a former member of B.B.WAVES. In 2014, she announced that she would retire as a solo singer if her album, Uchi Album ga 1-Man Mai Urenakattara misono wa Mou CD wo Hatsubai Suru Koto ga Dekimasen., didn't sell at least 10,000 copies. It failed to meet the goal and she has not released music since, but remains active in entertainment.
- IMDb mini biography by: Japanese Music Wiki

Misono, currently going under the moniker Me, is a Japanese pop-rock singer-songwriter, talent, and actress from Kyoto. In 2002 she began in the music business as the vocalist and lyricist of the pop band day after tomorrow. She stayed with the unit for three years until the group disbanded in 2005. A year later misono started her solo career with the single "VS" in March. She has been acting in commercials since 2003, though it was in 2006 when she was cast in a feature film, Obachan Chips. Despite originating from Kyoto in Japan, misono went to study at the prestigeous Okinawa Actors School in the southern islands of Japan. While at the school, she was a member in a popular group entitled B.B.WAVES. After being signed to the label avex trax, misono would debut in 2002 as the lead vocalist of a new band; day after tomorrow. Their self titled debut mini-album reached up to #10 on the Oricon weekly charts, and a following mini-album in November (day after tomorrow II) reached even further (peaking at #3). Despite this success, it would not be until 2003 when day after tomorrow would reach their peak in popularity. Their single "moon gate", used as the theme song to the Namco game Tales of Symphonia, brought them their first #2 single. Six months after the debut of day after tomorrow, misono began to gain weight. Her chubby face was a reason for their diminishing popularity and the eventual disbandment of day after tomorrow.

Two years later in 2005, the band would disband. By this time they had achieved a total of two singles at #2 and two albums at #2 on the Oricon charts. In late March 2006, misono would return to the music scene as a solo artist with the single "VS". Interestingly enough, this single was released on the same day as fellow labelmate and former Do As Infinity member Van Tomiko's debut solo album. By the end of the week, misono reached #4 on the Oricon weekly charts (with her sister's album BEST ~second session~ also charting at #4 in the very same week, but on the album charts).

"VS" would be quickly followed in a month's time by a second single, "Kojin Kugyou", a third two months after that, titled "Speedrive". In September of 2006, she joined a dieting program (MTV Girls Meets Beauty supported by Takano Yuri) on October 5th through MTV Japan. During this time she put out her fourth single "Lovely Cat's Eye". These singles were not as successful as "VS", but still charted within the top #20.

After five singles misono released her debut album, titled never+land. Unfortunately, the album flopped and debuted with low sales. The low sales have been thought to be from the lack of number of new songs on the album (only 4 songs out of 12 were new) and lack of promotion from avex trax. This in turn caused avex to cancel a previously mentioned mini cover album. In total, the album reached #20 on the Oricon weekly charts and sold 12,789 copies

misono released her sixth single "Pochi" in May of 2007 which later charted at a low number of #36 on the Oricon weekly charts. In September of the same year misono began the Rock Singles Project which would be rock themed singles produced by some of Japan's best rock acts. The first single in the project, "Zasetsu Chiten", was produced by STRAIGHTENER's bassist Hinata Hidekazu. In November of 2007 misono released the second single, "Juunin Toiro", which was produced by GO!GO!7188. Two months later misono released the third with a single produced by onso9line titled "Mugen Kigen". None of those singles entered the top ten on the Oricon charts. The release of her second album was announced in early 2008, but it was unexpectedly pulled. It was later announced that in June misono would be releasing the main theme song for the game Tales of Symphonia -Ratatosk no Kishi- titled "Ninin Sankyaku". The single was the last of the rock project singles and had moderate success, charting at #10 on the Oricon weekly charts. Her second album say was released in June 2006, but failed to make an impact much like her debut album due to lack of promotion.

In October of 2008, misono released her 11th single, "Kazoku no Hi / Aburazemi (Osaka Version) -Piano Version-". In November of 2008, misono collaborated with Satoda Mai and Toshifumi Fujimoto on a Christmas single called "Mou Sugu Christmas" in the new unit Satoda Mai with Goda Kazoku. The single was very well received and went to number #3 on the Oricon weekly charts. In January of 2009, they released a second single which was also well received and went number to #4 on the Oricon weekly charts, "Bye Bye". In February of 2009, she released her 12th single "Kyuukon / ?cm" and collaborated with her sister, Kumi Koda, on a joint "Kumi Koda x misono" single titled "It's all Love!" on March 31st, 2009.
- IMDb mini biography by: Generasia

She was vocalist and lyricist of day after tomorrow (sung one of the ED of Inuyasha "Itazurana Kiss"), a band that disbanded on 2008.

On July 16, 2017, Misono married Nosuke, who is the drummer for Japanese rock band HighsidE.

After being hospitalized from March 29 to April 5, 2019, due to an unknown illness, it was revealed that Misono had been diagnosed with Ménière's disease in October 2019.

She has retired from the entertainment industry and started a YouTube channel on October 2018.