Masami Okui

Masami Okui (奥井 雅美, Okui Masami, born March 13, 1968) 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.

Masami Okui 奥井 雅美
Okui performing as part of JAM Project in Paris
Background information
Born	March 13, 1968 Itami, Hyōgo, Japan
Genres	Japanese pop Anison rock
Occupation(s)	Singer songwriter
Instruments	Vocals drums percussion guitar
Years active	1993–present
Labels	Starchild King evolution Lantis
Associated acts	JAM Project r.o.r/s
Website	makusonia.com

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 the anime OAV The Girl from Phantasia. She sang with voice actress Megumi Hayashibara for the anime television series Slayers in 1995. In 2003, she teamed up with fellow artist Chihiro Yonekura to form the group r.o.r/s, an acronym for "Reflections of Renaissance/Sounds". She also became a member of the supergroup JAM Project, which released the single "Little Wing" that served as the opening theme song for the anime television series Scrapped Princess. She left Starchild Records and produced her own record label called "evolution", which lasted from 2003. In 2011, she ended her evolution label, left Geneon Universal Entertainment, and signed with Lantis.

Okui is a regular performer in the Animelo Summer Live annual concerts from "The Bridge" in 2005 to "Rainbow" in 2011. In October 2008, she went to Mexico with JAM Project where they performed at the Expo TNT 16. She also performed in 2012 for EXPO TNT GT 6.

Discography

Studio albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Album information[1]	Oricon peak position[2]
Gyuu	Release date: April 21, 1995 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-482[3]	47[4]
V-sit	Release date: September 21, 1996 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-586[5]	19[6]
Ma-KING	Release date: September 26, 1997 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-642[7]	12[8]
Do-Can	Release date: September 23, 1998 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-695[9]	12[10]
Her-Day	Release date: August 27, 1999 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-744[11]	18[12]
NEEI	Release date: August 23, 2000 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-822[13]	11[14]
Devotion	Release date: August 29, 2001 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-890[15]	30[16]
Crossroad	Release date: September 4, 2002 Label: King Records Cat. No.: KICS-964[17]	34[18]
Masami Kobushi (マサミコブシ)	Release date: May 1, 2003 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-1017[19]	17[20]
ReBirth	Release date: February 4, 2004 Label: King Records Cat. No.: KICS-1061[21]	49[21]
Dragonfly	Release date: February 2, 2005 Label: evolution Cat. No.: EVCA-0001[22]	68[23]
God Speed	Release date: February 24, 2006 Label: evolution Cat. No.: EVCA-0002[24]	111
Evolution	Release date: October 4, 2006 Label: evolution Cat. No.: EVCA-0003[25]	60
Masami Life	Release date: October 3, 2007 Label: evolution Cat. No.: EVCA-0005[26]	110
Akasha	Release date: February 25, 2009 Label: evolution Cat. No. EVCA-0010[27]	68
Self Satisfaction	Release date: August 21, 2009 Label: evolution Cat. No.: EVCA-0014[28] 1st album full of self-cover songs	127
i-magination	Release date: February 23, 2010 Label: Dwango User Entertainment Cat. No.: DGEA-10001[29]	95
Self Satisfaction II	Release date: February 2, 2011 Label: Dwango User Entertainment Cat. No.: DGEA-10002[30] 2nd album full of self-cover songs	113
Love Axel	Release date: July 4, 2012 Label: Lantis Cat. No.: LACA-35215[31]	43
Symbolic Bride	Release date: June 10, 2015 Label: Lantis Cat. No.: LACA-15487[32]	65
Happy End	Release date: August 21, 2018 Label: Lantis Cat. No.: LACA-15740[33]	74

Compilation albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Album information[1]	Oricon Peak position[2]
BEST-EST	Release date: June 4, 1999 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-723/4[34] 1st live album	21[35]
Li-Book 2000	Release date: November 22, 2000 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-831[36] 2nd live album	61[37]
S-mode#1	Release date: March 21, 2001 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-873/4[38] 1st compilation album	26[39]
S-mode#2	Release date: February 25, 2004 Label: King Records Cat. No.: KICS-1068/9[40] 2nd compilation album	50[41]
S-mode#3	Release date: February 23, 2005 Label: King Records Cat. No.: KICS-1148/9[42] 3rd compilation album	76[43]
Ooku (大奥)	Release date: February 6, 2008 Label: evolution Cat. No.: EVCA-0006[44]	78

Other albums

List of albums, with selected chart positions

Title	Album information	Oricon Peak position[2]
Angel's Voice	Release date: November 22, 2002 Label: King Records Cat. No.: KICS-982[45] 1st mini-album	67[46]

Singles

List of singles, with selected chart positions

Year	Title / Notes[47]	Oricon peak position	Album
1993	"Dare yori mo zutto..." (誰よりもずっと…)	—	Gyuu
1993	"Yume ni Konnichiwa -Tanoshii Willow Town-"	—	BEST-EST
1994	"I Was Born To Fall in Love"	92	Gyuu
1994	"Reincarnation"	83
1994	"My Jolly Days"	92
1994	"It's Destiny"	80
1995	"Get Along" (featuring Megumi Hayashibara)	36	BEST-EST
1995	"Mask" (featuring Kasumi Matsumura)	48	V-sit
1996	"Shake It"	81
1996	"Jama wa Sasenai"	9
1996	"Naked Mind"	38	Ma-KING
1997	"J"	79
1997	"Rondo-Revolution"	26
1997	"Souda, zettai."	45
1998	"Birth"	32	Do-Can
1998	"Shu -Aka"	32
1998	"Never Die"	32	Her-Day
1999	"Key"	49
1999	"Tenshi no Kyuusoku"	20
1999	"Kitto Ashita wa"	51
1999	"Labyrinth/Toki ni Ai wa"	29
1999	"Sore wa Totsuzen Yattekuru"	44	NEEI
1999	"Only One, No. 1"	34
2000	"Over The End"	45
2000	"Turning Point"	47
2000	"Cutie"	45
2000	"Just Do It"	60
2001	"Sora ni Kakeru Hashi"	28	Devotion
2001	"Megami ni Naritai ~for a yours~"	43
2001	"Shuffle"	55
2001	"Deportation: but, never too late"	53
2002	"Happy Place"	86	Crossroad
2003	"Second Impact"	56	ReBirth
2004	"Olive"	69	Dragonfly
2005	"Trust"	37	God Speed
2006	"Mitsu"	79
2006	"Zero -G-"	64	Evolution
2006	"Wild Spice"	82
2007	"Remote Viewing"	96	Masami Life
2007	"It's My Life"	97
2007	"Ring"	160
2007	"Insanity"	57	Akasha
2008	"Melted Snow"	121
2009	"Starting Over"	92	i-magination
2009	"Miracle Upper WL" (featuring May'n)	67
2009	"Sparking/No Dream, No Life"	—	—
2010	"Renka Tairan"	35	Love Axel
2012	"Sora no Uta"	38
2015	"Takarabako -TREASURE BOX-"	15	Symbolic Bride
2017	"Innocent Bubble"	124	HAPPY END
2017	"Sophia"	152	HAPPY END

Videos

Star Child

1. Ma-KING Concert '97
2. Do-can Diary
3. A-Day
4. Live in Hibiya -no cut-
5. B-Day
6. Document '00
7. Birth Live '01
8. C-Day
9. Live Devotion

King Records

1. V-mode −10th Anniversary-

Evolution

1. GIGS 2004 ReBirth
2. GIGS 2005 Dragonfly
3. GIGS 2006 GodSpeed
4. GIGS 2006 Evolution

References

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27. "Akasha – 奥井雅美". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
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38. "S-mode #1～シングル集&セルフカバー集 – 奥井雅美". oricon.co.jp. Retrieved August 25, 2016.
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External links

• Official website (in Japanese)
• evolution-m record label (in Japanese)
• Masami Okui at J-Music Italia (in Italian)