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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] |
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 ... [...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] |
J-pop
J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in traditional music of Japan, and significantly in 1960s pop and rock music. J-pop replaced '' kayōkyoku'' ("Lyric Singing Music", a term for Japanese popular music from the 1920s to the 1980s) in the Japanese music scene. J-rock bands such as Happy End fused the Beatles and Beach Boys-style rock with Japanese music in the 1960s1970s. J-country had popularity during the international popularity of Westerns in the 1960s1970s as well, and it still has appeal due to the work of musicians like Charlie Nagatani and venues including Little Texas, Tokyo. J-rap became mainstream with producer Nujabes and his work on ''Samurai Champloo'', Japanese pop culture is often seen with anime in hip hop. Other tre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tekkaman Blade II
is a 1992 Japanese anime television series produced by Tatsunoko Production and Sotsu Agency. The series was directed by Hiroshi Negishi and written by Mayori Sekijima and Satoru Akahori. The story follows an organization called the Space Knights and their war against aliens known as the Radam. The Space Knights are assisted by Takaya Aiba, who has the ability to transform into an armored warrior known as Tekkaman Blade. The first series, of 50 episodes (including episode 0), aired in Japan from February 18, 1992, to February 2, 1993, on TV Tokyo. This was followed by two specials. A sequel series called ''Tekkaman Blade II'', which is set ten years after the first series and follows the events of the second Radam invasion, was a series of six Japanese original video animation (OVA) releases from July 21, 1994, to April 21, 1995. A video game based on the series, titled ''Uchū no Kishi: Tekkaman Blade'', was released in Japan on July 30, 1993. The original series was re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mariko Koda
is a Japanese actress, voice actress, J-pop singer and radio personality. She graduated from Kasukabe Kyōei High School and went on to major in Communications at Tamagawa University in Machida City, Tokyo, graduating in 1990. Kouda has had at least one song appear on the program ''Minna no Uta''. She was a member of the J-pop voice acting group, Drops, until they disbanded. They were most well known for singing the ending theme to the anime ''Doki Doki School Hours'' although they did perform a couple of concerts one of which was released on DVD. She works for the talent management firm Aoni Production. Her most notable roles include Okinu from ''Ghost Sweeper Mikami'', Miki Koishikawa from ''Marmalade Boy'' and Shaorin from ''Mamotte Shugogetten''. Filmography Television animation *''Anime World Fairytales'' (Gretel) *''Black Jack'' (Rei Asato) *''Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo'' (Ruby, Denbo) *''Chance Pop Session'' (Reika) *''CLAMP School Detectives'' (Miyuki) *'' Crayon Shin-chan'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghost Sweeper Mikami
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina. It was published in Shogakukan's ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from May 1991 to September 1999, with its chapters collected in thirty-nine '' tankobon'' volumes. The series explores some folk religion themes such as possession, exorcism, shamanism, Yurei, and Yōkai. The series was adapted as a 45-episode anime television series by Toei Animation called ''Ghost Sweeper Mikami'' which ran on TV Asahi and the Asahi Broadcasting Corporation from 1993–1994, covering most parts of the first nine volumes of the Manga (total 39 volumes). The anime lead to the release of a movie, which had been the only existence of Mikami in the United States (released by Manga Video). The TV series has been licensed by Sentai Filmworks. In November 2013, Toei Animation released all of the episodes with English subtitles to YouTube. In 1993, ''Ghost Sweeper Mikami'' won the 38th Shogakukan Manga Award for the ''shōnen'' categor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saeko Shimazu
is a Japanese actress, voice actress and narrator from Isehara. Shimazu is notable for having had voice roles in all four of the major anime television series based on the works of Rumiko Takahashi - she played Shinobu Miyake in ''Urusei Yatsura'', Sayoko Kuroki in '' Maison Ikkoku'', Kodachi Kuno in ''Ranma ½'', and Abi-hime in ''InuYasha''. Shimazu is currently a freelancer. Filmography Television animation ;1980 *'' Space Warrior Baldios'' (Emily) *''Rescueman'' (Nana) *'' Mighty Atom'' (Midori) ;1981 *''Urusei Yatsura'' ( Shinobu Miyake) *'' Golden Warrior Gold Lightan'' (Emi Takakura, Aishi Raitan) *'' Dr. Slump'' (Hiyoko) *'' Dokonjō Gaeru'' (Pato) *'' Muteking, The Dashing Warrior'' (Kiyomi) ;1982 *'' Gyakuten! Ippatsuman'' (Mikaduki Nana) *'' Sasuga no Sarutobi'' (Kirigia Mako) *'' Combat Mecha Xabungle'' (Rag Uralo) *''Don Dracula'' (Chocola) *''Miss Machiko'' (Ririi Sugishita) *'' Magical Princess Minky Momo'' (Merijien, Chimuru, Teia) ;1983 *'' Cobra'' (Eris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku
is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Yuzo Takada. It was serialized in '' Weekly Manga Action'' for only three issues in 1991, with the three published stories later compiled in a single volume collection in December 1997. The story begins when genius inventor Kyusaku Natsume transplants the brain of a cat found by his son Ryunosuke on Christmas Eve, into a schoolgirl android that he created and subsequently stole from his former employer, Mishima Heavy Industries (owned by his estranged wife and Ryunosuke's mother, Akiko Natsume). The result, Nuku Nuku (also known as Atsuko Natsume), is a ''nekomusume'' or cat girl. The manga was licensed by ADV Manga and published as a single volume on August 24, 2004. ''Cat Girl Nuku Nuku'' has been adapted into two OVA series and one anime television series. All three anime adaptations were also licensed in North America by ADV Films. An English language version of the OVA was released by Crusader Video in the United Kin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neon Genesis Evangelion (anime)
, also known simply as ''Evangelion'' or ''Eva'', is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax and animated by Tatsunoko, directed by Hideaki Anno and broadcast on TV Tokyo from October 1995 to March 1996. ''Evangelion'' is set fifteen years after a worldwide cataclysm, particularly in the futuristic fortified city of Tokyo-3. The protagonist is Shinji Ikari, a teenage boy who is recruited by his father Gendo to the shadowy organization Nerv to pilot a giant bio-machine mecha named " Evangelion" into combat against beings known as "Angels". The series explores the experiences and emotions of Evangelion pilots and members of Nerv as they try to prevent Angels from causing more cataclysms. In the process, they are called upon to understand the ultimate causes of events and the motives for human action. The series has been described as a deconstruction of the mecha genre and it features archetypal imagery derived from Shinto cosmology as well as Jewish and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1995 Debut Albums
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