is a four-member Japanese musical unit, formed in 1997 and part of Team Fairithm. Their music contains elements of electro, EBM

Electronic body music

Electronic body music or industrial dance is a music genre that combines elements of industrial music and electronic dance music...

, darkwave

Darkwave

Dark Wave or darkwave is a music genre that began in the late 1970s, coinciding with the popularity of New Wave and post-punk. Building on those basic principles, dark wave added dark, introspective lyrics and an undertone of sorrow for some bands...

, neoclassical, ethereal

Ethereal Wave

Ethereal Wave, also called ethereal darkwave in Europe and ethereal goth or simply ethereal in the US, is a term that describes a subgenre of Dark Wave music...

 and ambient

Ambient music

Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...

, with a Gothic

Gothic rock

Gothic rock is a musical subgenre of post-punk and alternative rock that formed during the late 1970s. Gothic rock bands grew from the strong ties they had to the English punk rock and emerging post-punk scenes...

 style at its core. Their works include the theme songs of the 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....

 shows Mirai Nikki

Mirai Nikki

is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Japanese manga author Sakae Esuno. The manga was first serialized in the Japanese shōnen manga magazine Shōnen Ace on January 26, 2006, and is published by Kadokawa Shoten. As of April 26, 2011, eleven tankōbon volumes have been released in Japan...

, Magical Pokan, Innocent Venus

Innocent Venus

is a post-apocalyptic science fiction anime TV series which began broadcasting on the WOWOW network in Japan on July 26, 2006 at midnight. The series makes use of some 3D cel-shaded animation, which achieves a more "hand drawn" look than traditional 3D animation. At Anime Boston 2007, ADV Films had...

, Kurokami: The Animation, Seikon no Qwaser

Seikon No Qwaser

is an ongoing action manga series authored by Hiroyuki Yoshino and featuring art by Kenetsu Satō. It is notable for its heavy violence and use of graphic fanservice, and in particular, the use of breast milk as an actual plot device. The manga is serialized in the shōnen manga magazine Monthly...

,and the Mai-HiME videogame soundtrack. They have released several independent albums and four major release albums with their current publisher Lantis

Lantis (company)

is a Japanese company that specializes as a music publisher label for Japanese musicians, anime soundtracks and video game soundtracks. It was established on November 26, 1999, and in May 2006, it was bought by, and became a subsidiary of, Bandai Visual...

: Gothic Lolita Propaganda

GOTHIC LOLITA PROPAGANDA

Gothic Lolita Propaganda is Yōsei Teikoku's first major debut album, released on April 25, 2007. It features the singles Ashita wo Yurushite, Valkyrja, Noble Roar and Senketsu no Chikai as well as most of the coupling songs from each and some previously unreleased material.- Track listing :# Gothic...

, metanoia

Metanoia (Yosei Teikoku album)

metanoia is Yōsei Teikoku's second major debut album, released on November 7, 2007. It peaked at #49 on the Oricon album ranking charts. It features all new material.- Track listing :CD# Wahrheit - 4:49# Hades: The rise - 4:47# Eternal Waltz - 3:40...

, Gothic Lolita Doctrine and Gothic Lolita Agitator.

Concept

Through music, Yōsei Teikoku is attempting to revive the Fairy Empire that exists between the human world and the spiritual realm known as Spiritua. The purpose of their music is "to make humans remember the pure heart inside them that believes in fairies, forgotten before we knew it". "Gothic

Goth subculture

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" and "empire

Empire

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" are key words in their musical ideas.

Members

- vocals, chorus, and lyric writing. It's still unknown if Yui is associated with the group Denkare. - keyboards, guitar, composition, arrangement and lyric writing. Has worked with Kukui

Kukui (band)

Kukui is a Japanese band consisting of Haruka Shimotsuki and Myu . They have produced songs for anime and games, most notably the Rozen Maiden anime series.-History:...

 in the past. - bass guitar. - drums.

Prior to the release of Baptize, Yui and Tachibana were the group's only members. Nanami and Relu have since been added.

Albums

(1996) (1997) (1998) (1999)

• Stigma (2005)
• Gothic Lolita Propaganda
  GOTHIC LOLITA PROPAGANDA
  Gothic Lolita Propaganda is Yōsei Teikoku's first major debut album, released on April 25, 2007. It features the singles Ashita wo Yurushite, Valkyrja, Noble Roar and Senketsu no Chikai as well as most of the coupling songs from each and some previously unreleased material.- Track listing :# Gothic...
  
  (2007)
• Metanoia
  Metanoia (Yosei Teikoku album)
  metanoia is Yōsei Teikoku's second major debut album, released on November 7, 2007. It peaked at #49 on the Oricon album ranking charts. It features all new material.- Track listing :CD# Wahrheit - 4:49# Hades: The rise - 4:47# Eternal Waltz - 3:40...
  
  (2007) (2009)
• Gothic Lolita Doctrine (2009)
• Gothic Lolita Agitator (2010)

Singles

(2006) (2006)

• Noble Roar (2006)
• Valkyrja (2006) (2007)
• Schwarzer Sarg (2008)
• Hades: The Bloody Rage (2008)
• Weiß Flügel (2008) (2009)
• One (2009)
• Baptize (2010)
• Rebellion Anthem (2010)
• Asgard (2010)
• Mischievous of Alice (2011)
• Kuusou Mesorogii (2011)

Other

• Promotional CD (2004)

given out at only one of their live shows. Includes short, alternately arranged versions of Garden, Last moment, Torikago (トリカゴ), Haru he (春へ), Gekka Kyōsō (月下狂想), Deep sea and Moonlight magic.

• My-HiME
  My-HiME
  is an anime series, created by Sunrise. Directed by Masakazu Obara and written by Hiroyuki Yoshino, the series originally premiered in Japan on TV Tokyo from September 2004 to March 2005...
  
  game soundtrack
• Ending songs for the PC game Tsui no Yataka

External links

• Yōsei Teikoku official website, Fairithm -Gothic Lolita Propaganda-