Aqua Timez is a Japanese rock band signed to Epic Records.

Their first independent music mini album, Sora Ippai ni Kanaderu Inori, was released in August 2005.

[3] In 2006, the group were signed to Epic Records Japan and released their second mini album, Nanairo no Rakugaki.

In the same year they released two singles, "Ketsui no Asa ni" and "Sen no Yoru o Koete", which were used as the theme music in the animated films Brave Story and Bleach: Memories of Nobody respectively.

Their music in the films help garnered attention and later they recorded their first full-length studio album Kaze o Atsumete.