THE Masayuki Paradise

 Christmas has passed, and now it's time to remember the moments that happened this year.  For Masayuki Yamamoto, this year was kinda rough, but Masayukists were delighted to see another simultaneous album release. To start the third year of COVID, nothing special happened during the first half. And when I say  nothing special happened , I mean  nothing really happened . The end of 2021 was rough for me and Masayuki: I started using my  Xainelle-chan  moniker in uploading his songs to YouTube for the purpose of entertainment and preservation just in case. Then suddenly, Bella Beaux Entertainment decided to take down the videos and strike my channel for a reason: it would ruin his career financially. Learning the lesson on copyright and Bella Beaux and Yamamoto's policy to not share his music on video sharing sites, I eventually moved on. The redress message on sharing his songs to not just YouTube, but other video sharing platforms like Niconico; this messa...

 This is the second part of the biography, where this will focus on his anison career before finding himself into the popular music side. Masayuki Yamamoto found some moderate success with credits as a songwriter and composer for various kayokyoku and comic song artists, as well as his take on contemporary folk music with the release of his Sayonara La-la-la  single. However, there was something missing from his path that he still has yet to take part in: creating theme songs for the entertainment. In 1975, the then-president of Warner-Pioneer sought for a new theme song for a then-upcoming Tatsunoko Production anime work. At that time, Tatsunoko struggled hard to keep its profits going as some recent works were underperforming with TV ratings, like Shinzou Ningen Casshan ,  Uchuu no Kishi Tekkaman and Hurricane Polymar  (Tentoumushi no Uta went well and lasted over 100 episodes). Yamamoto was very interested in making theme songs for an anime, as it was on his bucke...

 I wouldn't start this site without explaining this biography. I'll cover the story of his troubled and challenging past and how he started his passion in making music. This shouldn't sound too personal and I need to revise it by understanding and translating what happened during that time. For the first part of his biography, this post will cover his early days before his music career. Masayuki Yamamoto  was born in Anjo, in Aichi Prefecture on July 11, 1951 , a Wednesday. His parents were Toshinobu [d. 1990] and Fuki [d. 11-02-2002]. His father used to work at the Kansai Electric Power Company or KEPCO. A skyline view of Anjo, where Masa-kun was born and raised in Between the age of around 4 to 6, his mother would take him to a Toei-themed jidaigeki once a week, where he would start his interest in music. In kindergarten class, he took piano lessons from a local teacher by the name of Kiyono Suzuki . He continued piano lessons until he eventually gave up in elementary and...

  When we talk about anime composers, many people will always talk about the most popular ones, such as Yoko Kanno, Kenji Kawai, Kohei Tanaka, Yasuharu Takanashi and others. We're talking about retro anime where music isn't just full-on action or slice-of-life music. Back when anime themes aren't really full-fledged pop/rock tunes and instead explains the premise of an anime show. It was one time when he claimed himself the first anison singer-songwriter . And little did he know that he was right all along... It was the mid-70s. Japan had the likes of Takeo Watanabe, Chumei Watanabe (not related), and Shunsuke Kikuchi providing just the most Showa-esqe tunes to ever grace the anime and tokusatsu period. Little problem is that none of the singers who provided the themes ever had done some lyrics and composing for those themes. Isao Sasaki, Ichiro Mizuki and Mitsuko Horie are such popular singers during that time, but neither of them ever made their own songs until later in t...