Talizman was a Japanese new wave

New Wave music

New Wave is a subgenre of :rock music that emerged in the mid to late 1970s alongside punk rock. The term at first generally was synonymous with punk rock before being considered a genre in its own right that incorporated aspects of electronic and experimental music, mod subculture, disco and 1960s...

 group perhaps best known for performing the opening and closing songs of Ultraman 80

Ultraman 80

is a Japanese tokusatsu TV show produced by Tsuburaya Productions which aired on the Tokyo Broadcasting System channel from April 2, 1980 to March 25, 1981, lasting a total of 50 episodes. It was the ninth TV show in the Ultra Series and began a week after the conclusion of the anime series The...

and the 1984 OVA Locke the Superman

Locke the Superman

is a manga series by Yuki Hijiri which was later adapted into a movie and three OVA releases. It was given an obscure video release in the United States as Locke the Superpower Ten volumes were published in Poland under the tile Locke Superczłowiek....

. They also did several songs for musicals such as the Japanese version of Hair

Hair (musical)

Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. A product of the hippie counter-culture and sexual revolution of the 1960s, several of its songs became anthems of the anti-Vietnam War peace movement...

. After the band broke up in 1981, Noboru Kimura, the lead vocalist, operated under the name Harry Kimura, doing several anime and tokusatsu themes.

Members

• Noboru Kimura (vocals)
• Starting Nobuo (guitar, vocals)
• Tatsuki Satoshi Ishikawa (bass, vocals)
• Kenzi Zyou Snake (keyboards, vocals)
• Satoshi Ishii (drums)