※-mai-

Artist

※-mai- is the singing alias of animation director Yoshitomo Yonetani. Known as the director of Sunrise titles such as 'The King of Braves GaoGaiGar' and 'Betterman', Yonetani has used this stage name when providing songs to his own directed works and singing them himself, mainly tracks where he is also credited with the lyrics and composition. The signature contribution is the ending theme 'Shizume -requiem-' for the 1999 anime 'Betterman' that he directed, with Yonetani writing the lyrics and composing the main melody, additional composition by Kohei Tanaka, giving a requiem of deep, lingering emotion to the heavy and dreamlike world of the main story. The name is discussed in the context of anime music as a vocalist face separate from his director credit.