Minami_Kuribayashi

Minami Kuribayashi

Minami Kuribayashi

Musical artist

Not to be confused with Minami (singer).

Minami Kuribayashi (栗林 みな実, Kuribayashi Minami, born June 11, 1976) is a Japanese singer, songwriter, lyricist and former voice actress from Shizuoka Prefecture. From 2016 to 2019, she performed under the stage name Minami.

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Her involvement in the game and anime Kimi ga Nozomu Eien, where she voiced the role of one of the characters, Haruka Suzumiya and performed and penned the theme songs and other songs relating to the series, has brought her much attention. Her single "Precious Memories", used as the opening theme song for the series' animated version was a success; it had a peak ranking of 17th place on the Oricon charts and charted for 14 weeks.[2] She has since performed songs for other games and anime, including series such as Muv-Luv, Chrono Crusade, My-HiME, My-Otome, Kure-nai, and School Days.

Kuribayashi has performed as part of the group Wild 3nin Musume, whose other present members are Joy Max (a.k.a. Joy Max Maximum) and Kisho Taniyama (a.k.a. Jackie Yang). She also once paired with Chiaki Takahashi to form the group exige, where Takahashi was known as CT. Veronica. Also, she is part of Sound Horizon.

Filmography

TV animation

OVAs

Internet animation

Games

  • Age Maniax (Susie, Fumino)
  • Kaseki no Uta (化石の歌) (Priere)
  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien (Haruka Suzumiya)
  • School Days (Minami Obuchi)
  • School Days L x H (Minami Obuchi)
  • "Hello, world." (Haruka Tomonaga)
  • Muv-Luv (Kasumi Yashiro)
  • Muv-Luv Alternative (Kasumi Yashiro, Haruka Suzumiya)
  • Muv-Luv Altered Fable (Kasumi Yashiro, Haruka Suzumiya)
  • My-Otome: Otome Butoushi!! (Erstin Ho)

Discography

Solo

Singles

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Albums

Studio albums
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Best albums
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DVDs

  • Kuribayashi Minami in BASXI Secret Live "Birthday eve"
  • 2003-11-27: Kuribayashi Minami Music Clip "Precious Memories"
  • 2008-02-27: Kuribayashi Minami 1st Live Tour 2007 "Fantastic Arrow"

References

  1. [1]
    Official Website
  2. [2]
    "Precious Memories", listed at Oricon Style
  3. [3]
    "Music Picks". Newtype USA. Vol. 5, no. 6. A.D. Vision. June 2006. p. 120. ISSN 1541-4817.
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