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, Magical DoReMi, 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.

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

Compilation albums + List of albums, with selected chart positions Title Album information OriconPeakposition BEST-EST Release date: June 4, 1999 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-723/4 1st live album 21 Li-Book 2000 Release date: November 22, 2000 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-831 2nd live album 61 S-mode#1 Release date: March 21, 2001 Label: Starchild Cat. No.: KICS-873/4 1st compilation album 26 S-mode#2 Release date: February 25, 2004 Label: King Records Cat. No.: KICS-1068/9 2nd compilation album 50 S-mode#3 Release date: February 23, 2005 Label: King Records Cat. No.: KICS-1148/9 3rd compilation album 76 Release date: February 6, 2008 Label: evolution Cat. No.: EVCA-0006 78

Other albums + List of albums, with selected chart positions Title Album information OriconPeakposition Angel's Voice Release date: November 22, 2002 Label: King Records Cat. No.: KICS-982 1st mini-album 67

Singles + List of singles, with selected chart positionsYear Title / Notes Oriconpeak position Album — Gyuu 1993 "Yume ni Konnichiwa -Tanoshii Willow Town-" — BEST-EST 1994 "I Was Born To Fall in Love" 92Gyuu 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) 48V-sit 1996 "Shake It" 81 1996 "Jama wa Sasenai" 9 1996 "Naked Mind" 38Ma-KING 1997 "J" 79 1997 "Rondo-Revolution" 26 1997 "Souda, zettai." 45 1998 "Birth" 32Do-Can 1998 "Shu -Aka" 32 1998 "Never Die" 32Her-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" 44NEEI 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" 28Devotion 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" 37God Speed 2006 "Mitsu" 79 2006 "Zero -G-" 64Evolution 2006 "Wild Spice" 82 2007 "Remote Viewing" 96Masami Life 2007 "It's My Life" 97 2007 "Ring" 160 2007 "Insanity" 57 Akasha 2008 "Melted Snow" 121 2009 "Starting Over" 92i-magination 2009 "Miracle Upper WL"(featuring May'n) 67 2009 "Sparking/No Dream, No Life" —— 2010 "Renka Tairan" 35Love Axel 2012 "Sora no Uta" 38 2015 "Takarabako -TREASURE BOX-" 15Symbolic Bride 2017 "Innocent Bubble" 124HAPPY END 2017 "Sophia" 152HAPPY END

Videos Star Child Ma-KING Concert '97 Do-can Diary A-Day Live in Hibiya -no cut- B-Day Document '00 Birth Live '01 C-Day Live Devotion King Records V-mode −10th Anniversary- Evolution GIGS 2004 ReBirth GIGS 2005 Dragonfly GIGS 2006 GodSpeed GIGS 2006 Evolution

References

External links

record label Masami Okui at J-Music Italia