Azumi Inoue
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is a Japanese
singer. She graduated from Yugakkan High School in Kanazawa. She is best known for singing the opening and ending theme songs for the Hayao Miyazaki
film My Neighbor Totoro
: "Sanpo" and "My Neighbor Totoro". She is known for having a clear, light voice.
Inoue is managed by the talent management firm Doremi. She is married and has one child.
s themes, anime
theme songs, and anime insert songs, including the following: (1986, Laputa: Castle in the Sky) (1988, My Neighbor Totoro
) (1988, My Neighbor Totoro) (1989, Kiki's Delivery Service
) (1989, Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor
) (1992–1993, Yadamon
) (1992–1993, Yadamon) (1992–1993, Yadamon) (February–March 1992, Minna no Uta
) (Suki Suki Kisugon) (image song
for TV Kanazawa) (August–September 2006, Minna no Uta)
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Japanese people
The are an ethnic group originating in the Japanese archipelago and are the predominant ethnic group of Japan. Worldwide, approximately 130 million people are of Japanese descent; of these, approximately 127 million are residents of Japan. People of Japanese ancestry who live in other countries...
singer. She graduated from Yugakkan High School in Kanazawa. She is best known for singing the opening and ending theme songs for the Hayao Miyazaki
Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese manga artist and prominent film director and animator of many popular anime feature films. Through a career that has spanned nearly fifty years, Miyazaki has attained international acclaim as a maker of animated feature films and, along with Isao Takahata, co-founded Studio Ghibli,...
film My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro
, is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan...
: "Sanpo" and "My Neighbor Totoro". She is known for having a clear, light voice.
Inoue is managed by the talent management firm Doremi. She is married and has one child.
Works
Inoue has performed a large number of radio dramaRadio drama
Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...
s themes, anime
Anime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
theme songs, and anime insert songs, including the following: (1986, Laputa: Castle in the Sky) (1988, My Neighbor Totoro
My Neighbor Totoro
, is a 1988 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and produced by Studio Ghibli. The film follows the two young daughters of a professor and their interactions with friendly wood spirits in postwar rural Japan...
) (1988, My Neighbor Totoro) (1989, Kiki's Delivery Service
Kiki's Delivery Service
is a 1989 Japanese animated fantasy film produced, written, and directed by Hayao Miyazaki. It was the fourth theatrically released Studio Ghibli film.The film won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1989...
) (1989, Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor
Guyver: The Bioboosted Armor
is a Japanese anime series based on the long-running manga series, Bio Booster Armor Guyver, written by Yoshiki Takaya, adapting chapters 1 - 59 of the manga. The production was in association with ADV Films and Kadokawa Shoten...
) (1992–1993, Yadamon
Yadamon
or Yadamon: Magical Dreamer is a 10-minute anime created by Suezen that originally run between 24 August 1992 to 16 July 1993. The series was broadcast every weekday. In the 21-week first run, 110 episodes aired...
) (1992–1993, Yadamon) (1992–1993, Yadamon) (February–March 1992, Minna no Uta
Minna no Uta
, literally Everyone's Songs, is a five minute NHK TV and radio program broadcasting several times daily since 1961. The program is generally used as filler at the end of regular television programs...
) (Suki Suki Kisugon) (image song
Image song
An image song or character song is a song on a tie-in single or album for an anime, game or dorama that is usually sung by the seiyū or actor of a character, in character...
for TV Kanazawa) (August–September 2006, Minna no Uta)
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Singles
/ Message- 2006-02-15, OWCR-1012, CD single, ¥1000, Rock Chipper Records, Japan
- Lyrics by Ryūichi Sugimoto
- Composed by Ryūichi Sugimoto
- Believe is a cover.
- 2008-05-21, KDSD-00207, CD single, ¥1050, Team EntertainmentTEAM EntertainmentTEAM entertainment is a musical hobby group that publishes music that is licensed to them. Motoi Sakuraba's game compositions are best known in this group. The issue with Sakuraba's music is that the games are copyrighted by the companies that own it, many of which have the practice of not...
, Japan
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Albums
- 2005-11-16, KDSD-00082, CDCompact DiscThe Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
, ¥2100, Team Entertainment, Japan - This is an image album with songs from the drama CD release based on the Beyond the Beyond manga by Yoshitomo Watanabe.
- 2006-09-06, OWCR-2029, CD with DVDDVDA DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
, ¥1500, Rock Chipper Records, Japan - Includes a bonus DVD with the Minna no Uta animation which goes with the title song.
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- 2008-07-23, KDSD-00225, CD, ¥1600, Team Entertainment, Japan
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Compilations
Inoue performed one or more songs on these albums. The songs performed are indicated below the album entry.- 1988-06-25, 32ATC-167, CD, ¥2920, Tokuma Japan CommunicationsTokuma Shotenis a publisher in Japan, that was established in 1954.The company was also the parent company for the film studio Daiei Motion Pictures, bought in 1974, and the record label Tokuma Japan Communications, bought in 1972, until both were sold off when Yasuyoshi Tokuma, who established this company,...
, Japan - Inoue performs tracks 7-11.
- 1990-07-25, TKCA-30147, CD, ¥2427, Tokuma Japan Communications, Japan
- Inoue performs tracks 2-3, 8, 10-11, and 13.
- 1990-09-25, TKCA-30147, CD, ¥2233, Tokuma Japan Communications, Japan
- Inoue performs tracks 1, 3-5, 9, and 14.
- 1991-01-25, TKCA-30209, CD, ¥2427, Tokuma Japan Communications, Japan
- Inoue performs tracks 8-10.
- 1991-12-21, TKCA-30488, CD, ¥1748, Tokuma Japan Communications, Japan
- Inoue performs tracks 3, 5, 7, and 8.
- 1992-11-25, TKCA-30706, CD, ¥2233, Tokuma Japan Communications, Japan
- Inoue performs tracks 4, 9, 11, 13, and 16.
- 1998-05-21, TKCA-71381, CD, ¥2913, Tokuma Japan Communications, Japan
- Inoue performs tracks 2-4.
- 2005-04-20, KDSD-00067, CD, ¥2100, Team Entertainment, Japan
- This is an album based on the AtelierAtelier (series)The Atelier series is a series of role-playing video games developed by the Gust Corporation since 1997, primarily for the PlayStation consoles , though portable versions for the Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo DS, and PlayStation Portable have also been made. Two of the games in the...
series of video games from Gust. It contains theme songs from several of the games. - Vocal artists include Inoue, Miki TakahashiMiki Takahashiis a seiyū and singer born on September 19, 1961 in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Together with her friend Chika Sakamoto, she participated in the third incarnation of the radio show Animetopia...
, Haruka ShimotsukiHaruka Shimotsukiis a Japanese singer and dōjin music composer known for her vocal themes in the Atelier Iris and Ar tonelico series. She also wrote the lyrics and sang the ending themes to the two seasons of Rozen Maiden as well as the OVA under the name Kukui, with Myu. Shimotsuki's original music mainly consists...
, Fukiko Ōta, Jun Kageie, and Taku Kitahara.
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Voice roles
- Tengai Makyō II: ManjimaruTengai Makyo II: Manjimaruis a role-playing video game and the second game in the Tengai Makyō series. It was first released in 1992 for the PC-Engine Super CD-ROM² by Hudson Soft and developed by Red Entertainment. It was remade in 2003 by Hudson for the Nintendo GameCube and PlayStation 2, and a later version was released...
(1992-03-26, Kinu) - Tengai Makyō: Fūun Kabukiden (1993-07-10, Kinu)
- Tengai Makyō: Dennō Karakuri Kakutōden (1995-07-28, Kinu)
- Tengai Makyō: Shinden (1995-07-28, Kinu)