THE Masayuki Paradise

It was late 2022, and Masayuki Yamamoto recently released three highly anticipate albums. Radio personality Kenji Shimizu formed a new program on Katsushika FM at Tuesdays 11PM (or 23:00 in Japan) dedicated only to Masayuki's songs and nothing else. It was what Masayukists wanted for a very long time. Now before I continue on, I wanted to share a similarly related fact that Masayuki has hosted a special radio program titled "Yoru wa Garagara Dondondon" that aired from April to September 1993, alongside Mikako Shiroyama. The talk segments wherein Masayuki and Mikako talk on random hilarious topics like summer vacations can be heard in The Series Best compilation album. I should really know 1993 is Masayuki's busiest year he has done in his entire career; not only that, but also two original albums, an anime themed mini album, and Time Bokan Royal Revival. November 1 was the first episode of the program known as Katsushika no Masayukist and premiered with the opening n...

 2024 was...indeed a turbulent year. The 50th debut anniversary went bitter, sure, but at least the  Sainou no Kiseki  Blu-ray set released last month saw many Masayukists watching any of his old concerts for the first time as if they were actually seeing him in person. I wish I was born in the late 70s/early 80s... This year had me also go on a different approach since I am also an artist who draws. If I am not doing college duties, I am mostly focused on my art and sharing them across social platforms that I currently run on. In fact, this year, I had little ideas. Little motivation. Little plans in updating my fanpage and providing translations of liner notes, song commentaries and interviews. Those fan pages I made are still sparse and incomplete. I didn't even have the time to write album reviews. DOES THIS MEAN I HAVE STOPPED BEING A FAN OF MASAYUKI??!! IS MY YAMAMOTO-SENSEI FIXATION OVER???!! Absolutely not. I still listen to him almost every day. I'll still love t...

 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...

 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...