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 ...

 Hey y'all! It's been a while since I last made a post for this website, but it's certainly not because I got lazy or something; I am too busy with college and other stuff. This week, we see three releases from Masayuki Yamamoto's discography getting an anniversary. The first one is the first box set The Pokopokkon  on November 22nd . Not only does it contain remasters of Yamamoto's first five original albums, but also the first live album, Namakemono ga Miteta OVA soundtrack, and some extras: image songs from Kyuukyoku Choujin R, three self-covers and selected karaoke tracks. The booklet  also features cool photos of Masa in New York, which I would love to see (I'm guessing half are from New York Whisper)! November 25th will mark the 31st anniversary of Yamamoto's first live album Aah Garagara Dondondon , which was also included in The Pokopokkon. Running a total of over two hours, this is the first of four live albums he's released throughout his disc...

 On this day in 1975, Tatsunoko Production premiered an anime series that not only saved the company from falling in grace, but began a somewhat successful anime franchise. Time Bokan  started broadcasting on Fuji Television on Saturday 6:30PM and the rest is history! This was also the debut of Masayuki Yamamoto as an anime composer and anison singer-songwriter. If not for this series, he wouldn't become popular in the first place. His prominence in this franchise made him a  Tatsunoko Legend , which could explain why he was part of the 60th anniversary concert. May they continue to save and preserve history!

 For (currently) 23 years, Masayuki Yamamoto has been associated with Bella Beaux Entertainment, although that record label is not founded by Yamamoto, but rather his artist manager Akira Kawase. Kawase created Bella Beaux a few years after he left Pioneer LDC. Bella Beaux's first release was from seiyuu and singer Hiroko Kasahara entitled Neo Decadence  in January 2000, and would only take six months for Yamamoto to get his first album from the then-new label. However, there was a time when Yamamoto had his own record label.... Yamamoto's last release under the Pioneer LDC label was Enka no Teiou  in August 1996, then moved to Teichiku for three more releases. After being in numerous major record labels, he wanted to give himself a record label of his own. With his artist manager at the time, Sachio Tanaka, he founded his own record label Susquehanna Record (and this name might sound familiar to Masayukists) around the mid-nineties. His first release for Susquehanna Reco...

 Masayuki Yamamoto was featured in a May 1976 issue of New Lite Music , along with Murasaki, Masamitsu Tayama (misspelled) and Shogo Hamada. "This artist started fame as a composer before becoming a singer. Check out the photo with his innocent expression on the right. Can you guess on which song flavor is he creating? That's right: he was the one delicately expressing the boy's genuine heart with these historical masterpieces "Uguisudani Music Hall" , "Hirake! Tulip" and "Moeyo Dragons!" . It's hard to imagine the folk tone of his debut single where he wrote, composed and sang, but he stated that enka styles, some folk touch and a marching behavior are arguably occurring naturally from that song." (この人も歌手より先に作曲で有名になっちゃった方。まだあどけない表情を残した右の写真をごらんなさい。どんな曲を書く人か、大体想像がつくてしょう? そう、その通り彼こそあの歴史的名曲「うぐいすだにミュージックホール」「ひらけ!チューリップ」を始め「燃えよドラゴンズ」など少年の純粋な心を繊細に表現した …… とまあ冗談はこのくらいにして、彼がこれらの曲を作ったことは事実。作詞・作曲して歌っているデビュー・シングルのフォーク調からは考えもつかないが本人は、演歌調もフォーク・タッチ...

 The Masayukist's Zone  was created one year ago today! I made this fan site as some sort of apologetic response to what caused my original YouTube channel to get terminated in the first place. After surfing and skimming through various fan sites of Masayuki Yamamoto that had been ever made across the internet, both active and dead/archived, I wanted to give myself a take on this. What's also surprising is that there wasn't any fan site that's not Japanese. When browsing around that site, you'll see a round-up of his discography, including a section for anime and image songs that will be up soon. As of this writing, I'm currently working on a rundown of concerts that had been held so far, with some reported setlists if available. The site also provides updates on upcoming events or albums that Yamamoto is involved in. It's been five months since his latest album releases and only two months after his comeback in live concerts, which means he had deserved an...

 An unusual acting appearance of Masayuki Yamamoto in Konomachi Daisuki , an educational TV show that teaches children on social studies. He appeared in the last episode of the Syllabel arc on March 1994, seen in his trademark white cardigan and a keytar. Syllabel is portrayed by Yoshitomo Azuma. He is also known for creating the self-titled theme song, something that Yamamoto-sensei doesn't make that often when it comes to children's shows.