Shouta Aoi, born Shouta Yanagawa, is a Japanese singer, actor, and voice actor. Under the mononymous stage name Showta (stylized as "SHOWTA. "), he debuted as a singer with the song "Negaiboshi" in 2006 and released his first studio album, Eve, in 2008. In 2009, he left his agency and began releasing music independently under the pseudonym Noboru Ryugaki.