THE Masayuki Paradise

With another year coming to an end, it's time to summarize what the sensei has done throughout. As much as I am looking forward for next year -- and his 50th career anniversary, it's a bummer that this is the first year in a while that Yamamoto hasn't released at least one album, whether a maxi single or a full-length one, since 2014; all the years between them have album releases, if you wanna count THE Jitaku Live in 2021. To start the second post-COVID year, Yamamoto returned to the stage in January with the Tatsunoko 60th anniversary concert, since he is a prominent person who worked on not the Time Bokan Series, but two super robot shows. Although Ichiro Mizuki was part of the main performers, he sadly passed away one month prior. Thankfully, Birthday Song paid a tribute with a prerecorded video of Mizuki singing the theme to Tekkaman the Space Kinght . Yamamoto still got the energy and stage presence to keep the audience rockin'! Oh, don't forget that he even ...

 December is a big month for Masayukists when it comes to album releases, whether it be original albums or singles. Now that I am free from all those college stuff and it's about time I forget about it for a while, we got another whole week of anniversaries. Starting with.... Megami no Jiyuu  on December 18! In case you haven't checked the album yet, it was released under Yamamoto's own record label at that time, which was unfortunately discontinued shortly after. Yamamoto had once again blended a variety of music genres in time for the new millennium. You can hear two baseball related tracks, a peppy pop song for the title track, a 50s style love ballad, and an anime melody style on the final track to finish the 55-minute runtime. I saw some misinformation that Akemi Takada made the cover illustration. It's clearly Yamamoto's, just by looking at his art style. Takada, known as the character designer for Creamy Mami, actually did cover art for '88. December 19 ...