Aucifer
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- For the 1970s British rock band see Lucifer (rock band)Lucifer (rock band)Lucifer was a British solo rock project active in the early 1970s, the alias of Denys Irving. Howard Marks clearly states in his 1997 autobiography that Lucifer was the solo work of Denys Irving, with financial assistance from Marks....
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(stylized as Λucifer) is a rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
group, best known for contributing several of their songs to the popular 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....
, Kaikan Phrase. The band was formed in 1999, and disbanded in early 2003. They officially debuted on 15 September 1999 with their big hit single Datenshi BLUE, and became increasingly popular thereafter.
Lucifer was put together for the Kaikan Phrase anime to promote it. The anime was based on the popular shōjo
Shojo
The term refers to manga marketed to a female audience roughly between the ages of 10-18. The name romanizes the Japanese 少女 , literally: "little female". Shōjo manga covers many subjects in a variety of narrative and graphic styles, from historical drama to science fiction — often with a strong...
manga
Manga
Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...
by Mayu Shinjo
Mayu Shinjo
is a Japanese manga artist. She debuted in 1994 in Shogakukan's Shōjo Comic with "Anata no Iro ni Somaritai". She continued writing for Shogakukan until 2007, with her works appearing in both Shōjo Comic and their other magazine Cheese!...
. The band members of real life Lucifer changed their names to match with their anime/manga counterparts, except for the vocalist, who kept his name instead of changing it to Sakuya (the main character's name). Several of Lucifer's songs were used in the anime, along with songs of other j-rock bands like Glay
Glay (band)
Glay is a rock/pop band from Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan formed by guitarist Takuro and vocalist Teru in high school in 1988. Glay primarily composes songs in the rock and pop genres, but they have also composed songs using elements of different styles such as reggae and gospel...
, Feel
Feel (band)
Feel is a Polish band which was formed in Katowice in 2005.Originally called 'Q2', the band later adopted 'Kupicha Band' as its name and then finally 'Feel'.The group released its debut album 'Feel' on November 26, 2007...
and e.MU
E.mu
E.mu — Japanese rock-group, mostly known because of their music for the Kaikan Phrase anime series.Their first single "Love Around" appeared in 2000 as the ending theme of 35-43 Kaikan Phrase episodes. In the same year they signed the contract with Unlimited Records...
. However, the band decided to go on even after the anime had ended, and continued to release more music afterwards.
Then finally on 25 October 2002, over two and a half years after the anime had ended, they announced that they were breaking up. Following the announcement, they did their last tour entitled "Lucifer Last Live 2002-2003 Energy" from 16 December 2002 to 10 January 2003, which included 9 shows. After that, they appeared for the last time in a TV music show, PopJam, on 11 January and then did their very last show (which was also their first show done abroad) at the Impact Arena in Bangkok
Bangkok
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, Thailand
Thailand
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on 19 January.
At first, on the first album, the music was written by Takuya Asanuma
Takuya Asanuma
, known better by his mononymous stage name TAKUYA, is a Japanese guitarist and record producer. He was formerly the second guitarist of Judy and Mary. He currently works as a solo artist under the name TAKUYA and also had a solo project called ROBOTS which was dissolved in 2009. He was previously...
(Judy and Mary
Judy and Mary
Judy and Mary was a Japanese multi-genre band formed in 1991 in Hakodate, Hokkaido by bassist and vocalist , with drummer and guitarist completing the lineup in 1992. Guitarist replaced Taiji the following year...
), Chisato (Penicillin
Penicillin (band)
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) and Ippei & Taizo (Feel
Feel (band)
Feel is a Polish band which was formed in Katowice in 2005.Originally called 'Q2', the band later adopted 'Kupicha Band' as its name and then finally 'Feel'.The group released its debut album 'Feel' on November 26, 2007...
) but after that, the members of the band started writing more. Beatrip featured one song from Atsuro and one from Santa, and the rest were by Takuya and Chisato, but by the third album, nearly all the music had been done by members of the band, save for one song by Takuya, and two of the songs Makoto did that were done as a collaboration with Masaki.
The lyrics on the first two albums were all done by Mori Yukinojo (except for one song on Beatrip, when Makoto did them). On the third album, only the lyrics to the song by Takuya were made by Mori and the rest were done by the band members.
After the break-up of the band;
- Makoto has gone on a solo career (first using his given name, then used his full name). Towa and Santa also played on his first mini-album "Vibration".
- Towa is in two bands called Olive Sunday and Birth of Life and has done some solo work as well.
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soundtracks and on Anna TsuchiyaAnna Tsuchiyais a Japanese singer, lyricist, actress and semi-retired model.Tsuchiya was born to a Japanese mother and an American father of Polish-Irish descent from Buffalo, New York. In her earliest years, she spoke English and Japanese...
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", to mention a couple of his projects. - Yuki formed Dustar-3 with two ex-members of Sex Machineguns, Noisy and Himawari. He is also collaborating with Janne Da Arc's yasu on his solo project, Acid Black CherryAcid Black CherryAcid Black Cherry is Janne Da Arc vocalist Yasu's solo project, formed in 2007 when they went on hiatus. The band's name is often seen shortened to A.B.C..-Background:...
. In 2010, he joined Rayflower, a rock band started by Sphia's keyboardist Keichii Miyako. - Atsuro has been playing session guitar for j-popJ-pop, an abbreviation for Japanese pop, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s. Modern J-pop has its roots in 1960s music, such as The Beatles, and replaced kayōkyoku in the Japanese music scene...
artists like meg rock, MarikaMarika- Nicknames :Mari, Mariczka, Mariczika, Marka, Riky, Mara, Maja, Mariska, Marcsa, Marcsi, Marica, Rikas, Rastas, Ricky- Famous bearers :*Marika Siewert, a Canadian recording artist and music producer*Marika Kotopouli, a Greek actress...
and Chieko KawabeChieko Kawabeis a female Japanese pop singer, model, radio host and actress. She was born on February 24, 1987 in Tokyo. She is a graduate of Toshima, Tokyo. As of her marriage to producer Masato Ochi on August 8, 2008, her legal name is .- Career :...
. He briefly joined a rock band Tokyo Anastasia.
They were reunited in November 2009 and signed with new label T.N.B. Entertainment.
Members
- Makoto Koshinaka - vocals
- Atsuro (Daisuke Kato) - guitar
- Yuki (Yuuki MasahikoYuuki Masahiko, better known as "YUKI", is a Japanese guitarist. He started his career in 1995 as session guitarist. In September 1999, he joined Λucifer, a real life counterpart from a band with the same name in the anime Kaikan Phrase and was given the stage name YUKI, as he was taking the role of Yukifumi...
) - guitar - Towa (Taguchi Tomonori) - bass
- Santa (Abe Toru) - drums
Discography (with info on how they did in the charts according to Oricon)
- Datenshi Blue (single) – 1999/09/15 (highest ranking: 16th, 12 weeks in the charts)
- C no Binetsu (single) – 1999/11/03 (8th, 7 weeks)
- Limit Control (album) – 1999/12/08 (6th, 8 weeks)
- Tokyo Illusion (Tokyo Gensou)/LucyY (single) – 2000/02/16 (11th, 7 weeks)
- Carnation Crime (single) – 2000/06/07 (9th, 5 weeks)
- Vision File Film: Escape (PVMusic videoA music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
compilation DVD) – 2000/06/28 (4th) - Junk City (single) – 2000/08/02 (9th, 4 weeks)
- Tsubasa (single) – 2000/11/08 (11th, 4 weeks)
- Beatrip (album) – 2001/02/21 (10th, 3 weeks)
- Be-Trip Tour 2001 (live DVD) – 2001/05/30 (1st)
- Hypersonic Soul (single) – 2001/08/01 (16th, 3 weeks)
- Vision File Film: Escape 2 (PV compilation DVD) – 2001/11/07 (no info)
- Regret (single) – 2002/02/06 (18th, 3 weeks)
- Element of Love (album) – 2002/03/13 (17th, 2 weeks)
- Realize (single) – 2002/08/07 (15th, 2 weeks)
- The Best (best-of compilation) – 2002/12/05 (15th, 2 weeks)
- Last Tour 2002-2003 Energy Tour Final at Tokyo Kokusai Forum (live DVD) – 2003/03/26 (no info)