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Masami Okui
is a Japanese singer and songwriter from Itami, Hyōgo. She began her professional musical career at age 21 as a concert backup singer. From almost the very beginning of her career, Masami has sung themes for anime television and movies. She is especially well known for her songs from ''Revolutionary Girl Utena'', ''Tales of Eternia'' The Animation, ''Slayers'', ''Sorcerer Hunters'', ''Di Gi Charat'', ''Magic User's Club'', '' Jungle de Ikou!'', ''Akihabara Dennou Gumi'', ''Ray the Animation'', ''He Is My Master'' and ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters.'' She has performed material for more than 50 singles and 20 albums to date (including her work with JAM Project and Chihiro Yonekura). Okui hosts ''@Tunes'', an anime music news program, on the Japanese anime television network Animax. Biography Okui began her music career as a concert backup singer for Yuki Saito in November 1989. Her first solo single "Dare Yori mo Zutto" was released in 1993, and was used as a theme song for the a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JAM Project
JAM Project ("JAM" standing for "Japan Animationsong Makers") are a Japanese anison band founded on July 19, 2000 by anison singer Ichirou Mizuki. The band is composed of many vocal artists well known in the anime music industry. Aside from the many anime, tokusatsu, and video game theme songs the band has performed together, each member is famous for their own solo performances of Japanese theme songs. JAM Project is known to worldwide audiences for their theme music contributions to ''Garo'' and ''One Punch Man.'' History JAM Project was founded in 2000 by veteran singer Ichirou Mizuki, who sought to revitalize the fiery spirit of earlier anime songs. He recruited fellow veterans of that space, including Hironobu Kageyama and Masaaki Endoh, who remain members of the group. The following year, JAM Project began a long association with the Super Robot Wars franchise, performing "Hagane no Messiah" for the PlayStation game " Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden. In 2002, Mizuki and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
''Yu-Gi-Oh!'', known in Japan as , is a Japanese anime series animated by Studio Gallop based on the ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' manga series written by Kazuki Takahashi. It is the second anime adaptation of the manga following the 1998 anime television series produced by Toei Animation. The series revolves around a young high school boy named Yugi Muto who battles opponents in the ''Duel Monsters'' card game. The series begins from chapter 60 in volume 7 before loosely adapting the remaining chapters of the original manga by making story changes that conflict with the events of the manga canon. ''Yu-Gi-Oh!'' originally aired in Japan on TV Tokyo from April 2000 to September 2004, running for 224 episodes; A remastered version, highlighting certain duels, began airing in Japan in February 2015. An English-language localization of the anime series was produced by 4Kids Entertainment, and aired in the United States from September 29, 2001, to June 10, 2006, on Kids' WB. The series has ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ma-KING
''Ma-KING'' is the third album by Masami Okui, released on September 26, 1997. Track listing #endless life #* Movie ''Love & Pop'' image song #* PS game '' Advanced V.G 2'' theme song #* Lyrics: Masami Okui #* Composition: Masami Okui, Toshiro Yabuki #* Arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki # #* OVA ''Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko'' opening song #* Lyrics: Masami Okui #* Composition, arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki #A&C #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Tsutomu Ohira #Process #* Radio drama '' Slayers N.EX'' image song #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Tsutomu Ohira # #* Radio drama '' Slayers N.EX'' ending song #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki #Spicy Essence #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Tsutomu Ohira #Naked Mind (dynamix) #* Radio drama '' Slayers N.EX'' opening song #* Lyrics: Masami Okui #* Composition, arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki #Precious wing (light wind version) #* Lyrics: Masami Okui #* Compositio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V-sit
''V-sit'' is the second album by Masami Okui, released on September 21, 1996. Track listing #Mask (masamix) #* Anime television series ''Sorcerer Hunters'' ending song #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki, Tsutomu Ohira # #* Radio drama '' Slayers EX'' image song #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki #Shake it #* OVA ''Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko'' theme song #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki, Tsutomu Ohira # #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki, Tsutomu Ohira #Lonely soul #* OVA ''Starship Girl Yamamoto Yohko'' image song #* Lyrics: Masami Okui #* Composition, arrangement: Tsutomu Ohira #Dreaming Heart #* OVA ''Megami Paradise'' ending song #* Lyrics: Keiko Kimoto #* Composition: Gota Wakabayashi #* Arrangement: Tsutomu Ohira # #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Tsutomu Ohira #Love is Fire #* Lyrics: Masami Okui #* Composition: Tsutomu Ohira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gyuu
''Gyuu'' is the first studio album by Masami Okui, released on April 21, 1995. Information * Includes a self-cover of the first song that Masami Okui composed and wrote the lyrics herself . Track listing #Reincarnation #* OVA ''Tekkaman Blade II'' opening song #* Lyrics: Satomi Arimori #* Composition: Takashi Kudo #* Arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki # #* Cover of Mariko Koda's character song in OVA ''Tekkaman Blade II'' #* Lyrics, composition: Masami Okui #* Arrangement: Toshiro Yabuki #I Was Born to Fall In Love #* OVA ''Compiler'' opening song #* Lyrics: Satomi Arimori #* Composition, arrangement: Hideya Nakazaki # #* OVA Tekkaman Blade II image song #* Lyrics: Satomi Arimori #* Composition: Takashi Kudo #* Arrangement: Masami Okui #Full Up Mind #* OVA ''Compiler'' ending song #* Lyrics: Satomi Arimori #* Composition, arrangement: Hideya Nakazaki #Beats the Band #* Anime film ''Ghost Sweeper Mikami'' soundtrack #* Lyrics: Mamie D. Lee #* Composition: Makoto Ikenaga #* Arrangement: V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oricon
, established in 1999, is the holding company at the head of a Japanese corporate group that supplies statistics and information on music and the music industry in Japan and Western music. It started as, which was founded by Sōkō Koike in November 1967 and became known for its music charts. Oricon Inc. was originally set up as a subsidiary of Original Confidence and took over the latter's Oricon record charts in April 2002. The charts are compiled from data drawn from some 39,700 retail outlets (as of April 2011) and provide sales rankings of music CDs, DVDs, electronic games, and other entertainment products based on weekly tabulations. Results are announced every Tuesday and published in ''Oricon Style'' by subsidiary Oricon Entertainment Inc. The group also lists panel survey-based popularity ratings for television commercials on its official website. Oricon started publishing Combined Chart, which includes CD sales, digital sales, and streaming together, on December 19, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animelo Summer Live
''Animelo Summer Live'', abbreviated as , is the biggest annual anime songs music festival in Japan hosted by Dwango and Nippon Cultural Broadcasting. Animelo Summer Live has been held every summer since 2005. Description Animelo performers are singers and voice actors that specialize in singing anime or game theme songs; however, they also both present and perform new original and tokusatsu songs as well. The performers are not necessarily under the same record label. Animelo has a different theme song for each year, which is sung by all performers in the end of the concert. More general artists who have performed anime songs have also performed, including Rina Aiuchi, m.o.v.e, AAA, Shoko Nakagawa, Kenji Ohtsuki, Gackt, and Momoiro Clover Z. Due to various copyrights and contracts, some performances belonging to certain record labels have sometimes not been included on the video distributed on DVDs and Blu-Rays. This factored into the lack of a video release for 2005. Becaus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geneon Universal Entertainment
(abbreviated as NBCUEJ) is a Japanese music, anime, and home entertainment production and distribution enterprise headquartered in Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo. It is primarily involved in the production and distribution of anime within Japan. The company was founded in March 1981 by Pioneer Corporation as LaserDisc Corporation, a LaserDisc player production company. In 1989, the company was renamed Pioneer LDC, Inc. as it branched into the anime, music, and film industries, and later Geneon Entertainment Inc. (after being acquired by Dentsu in 2003). In 2008, Geneon merged with Universal Pictures Japan to form Geneon Universal Entertainment Japan, LLC; in 2013, the company changed its name to the current NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan. Some of the well-known anime series the company has produced are ''A Certain Magical Index'', ''The Heroic Legend of Arslan'', '' Danganronpa: The Animation'', ''Golden Kamuy'', and ''Seraph of the End'' among many others. Their North American b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scrapped Princess
is a Japanese light novel series by Ichiro Sakaki and illustrated by Yukinobu Azumi, also known as the popular adult dōjin artist Nakayohi Mogudan. In 2003, it was adapted into an anime series produced by Bones. ''Scrapped Princess'' is notable for its music, which is composed by Masumi Itō, and its themes. It begins as high fantasy and then quickly mixes into varying degrees of post-apocalyptic and science fiction elements through the application of Clarke's third law. The atmosphere has undertones of sadness, though many of the characters and situations are superficially light-hearted. Story The story takes place in what appears to be a fantasy world (revealed later to be Earth in the distant future) and revolves around a girl named Pacifica Casull, the sister in a pair of twins born to the royal family of a kingdom called Leinwan. Pacifica is abandoned at birth. The 5111th Grendel Prophecy predicts that she is the "poison that will destroy the world" if she reaches ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Megumi Hayashibara
is a Japanese voice actress, singer, lyricist and radio personality from Kita ward in Tokyo and is affiliated with self-founded Woodpark Office. One of the most prominent Japanese voice actresses since the 1990s, Hayashibara is best known for her roles in ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'', ''Love Hina'', ''Saber Marionette J'', ''Magical Princess Minky Momo'', ''Mashin Hero Wataru'', ''Ranma ½'', '' Cowboy Bebop'', ''Slayers'', ''Detective Conan'', ''Pokémon'', '' All Purpose Cultural Catgirl Nuku Nuku'', ''Video Girl Ai'', and ''Shaman King'' where she also performs the opening themes for the 2001 series, Over Soul and Northern Lights, as well as the 2021 adaptations theme Soul Salvation. Biography Hayashibara was born on March 30, 1967, in Kita Tokyo, Japan. She studied at a Catholic school and at one point was bullied in fifth grade. She was an active club member and participated in the Badminton, Biology, Broadcasting, Drama and English clubs. She played the role of Alice in an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yuki Saito (actress)
Yuki Saito ( ja, 斉藤 由貴, Saitō Yuki; born September 10, 1966 in Minami-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actress, singer and narrator. She attended Kanagawa Prefectural Shimizugaoka High School (now Yokohama Seiryo Sogo High School). She is well known in Japan for being a member of LDS Church, as she refuses to work on Sundays. Saito used a fake cigarette while filming the 1986 film ''Koisuru Onnatachi'' due to her beliefs. In 1985, after making her singing debut with her single '' Sotsugyō'' and her debut album, '' Axia'', she was cast in the lead role of Saki Asamiya in the first '' Sukeban Deka'' television drama series. She later revisited that story by playing Saki's mother in the 2006 movie, '' Sukeban Deka: Codename = Asamiya Saki''. She has starred in and been cast in many television and film dramas and comedies, and has also done voice-over narration work. Saito has released 21 singles and 13 original albums. She has also released a live album, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Animax
, stylized as ANIMAX, is a Japanese animation satellite television network, dedicated to broadcasting anime programming. The channel also dubbed other cartoons in Japanese language. A subsidiary of Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan, it is headquartered in in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, with its co-founders and shareholders including Sony Pictures Entertainment Japan and the noted animation studios Bandai Namco Filmworks,Sunrise official website - corporate outline'' - Sunrise, official corporate outline, ''About Us'' section. Toei Animation,Toei Animation official website - history section'', Toei Animation official website. Toei Animation official website - English section - History'' Toei Animation official website. TMS Entertainment and production company Nihon Ad Systems.Animax's official website - Official Partners [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
