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21st May 2006, 06:12 PM
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The Official Maaya Sakamoto Thread
 Born March 31, 1980 she has released 5 albums, 2 compliations, 13 singles (with another one on the way), and has participated in over 22 soundtracks. She released her first album: Grapefruit in 1996, and since then there has been a noticeable time gap between her projects (some even 2 years long) but that's not to say that she's been lazy. She began her career at age 16 as a japanese voice actor, playing the role of Hitomi Kanzaki from Escaflowne. She's a well known voice actor, playing in Animes such as: Wolf's Rain Cardcaptor Sakura Escaflowne .Hack FFVII Advent Children (as Areith, she rocked!) Cowboy Bebop Tsubasa Chronicles and more She's also used her voice talents in games such as the Kingdom Hearts Series (as Areith) and Dead or Alive 4 as Lisa. Including Game and Anime voice overs, Sakamoto-san has also done Japanese dubs and played in plays such as the Japanese production of Les Misérables (she played Epinone) and dubbing TV show series like James Cameron's Dark Angel (she played Max!) Discography: Albums Grapefruit 4.23.1997  DIVE 12.14.1998  Lucy 3.28.2001  Easy Listening 9.8.2001  Shonen Alice 12.10.2003  Yuunagi Loop 10.26.2005  NEW ALBUM: 30 Minutes Night Flight 3.21.2007  Compliations: Hotchpotch 12.16.1999  Nikopatchi 7.30.2003  find more about maaya here Official site Lyrics and Translations: Nostalgic Lavendar Downloads Available at: 4.14.07: Maaya Sakamoto Discography PS: if you download something leave a post please! EDIT: 3/16/07 New Release This Month!
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21st May 2006, 06:53 PM
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YAY!! You just made my day!
My favorite singer (other than Ayu) has an official thread!! There are also a lot of lyrics at www.waxinlyical.com
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21st May 2006, 08:08 PM
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Maaya certainly has a wonderful voice
 I just loved her after finding out she sang for CCS (I was a huuuge fan) I can't believe she was in "Les Miserables" (Japan ver.) 
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22nd May 2006, 01:18 AM
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 btw, its "Tell Me What the Rain Knows". I wish that song was longer. She sounds like an angel in there. The first Japanese song that I heard was "Yubiwa" from Escaflowne.  Then I heard Tomodachi and Purachina and I totally fell for Maaya's voice.
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22nd May 2006, 01:42 AM
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22nd May 2006, 07:48 PM
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My first Maaya Sakamoto was, Hemisphere, which is probably one of the best songs to listen to if you want to get hooked on Maaya! Its one of my favorites...
@~Matt~as for her new single I'm not sure if its available for full download since it doesn't come out until June 14, but I'll sniff around (I'm hungry for an early peek too )
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22nd May 2006, 09:22 PM
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But basically, all of the RahXephon songs are good. "Tune the Rainbow" is my absolute favorite. But I also really like "Garden of Everything" and "Ongaku".
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27th May 2006, 11:31 AM
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I found some radio previews for her new single! Just pop on over to the download thread! PS its on YSI so the download will expire on June 2nd; so any mirrors would be great.
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27th May 2006, 11:53 AM
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I just love her when she sings nicely in the kingfisher girl and her shounen alice is her greatest i think..... >.<
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27th May 2006, 05:06 PM
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28th May 2006, 11:13 AM
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does the profile picture above from her Easy Listening album?
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28th May 2006, 11:55 AM
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^ I think so; it looks similar.
I fell in love with Maaya's voice because of Escaflowne...that's my favorite anime series ever (probably the only anime I followed through completely).
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28th May 2006, 01:39 PM
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As CREA.tive pointed out to me she is very young to have created such success (not only her music but her acting too) She's done voiceovers for countless animes, games, preformed live on stage, in movies, and dramas. She started at only age 16 and she's still going strong. Most artists who start out that young, loose their shine when they get older. (with some artists being the exceptions) so she's doing pretty well for being only 26 years old...
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29th May 2006, 03:54 AM
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^ Yup, I agree with you 100% ^^ It is kind of hard to believe she was only 16 when she did voiceovers for Hitomi in Vision of Escaflowne o_o I was surprised!
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29th May 2006, 10:50 AM
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I see
I love almost every tracks from Easy Listening...that was her best album! & the song Grapefruit is also great!  I love her latest ones, Yuunagi Loop so smooth...I love her jazz tunes there...Paprika, Yuunagi Loop...& the rest is also addictive I have never seen her PV though... but for some reason, her voice is really young....I would never know she is 26 judging from her voices...& she has the mature looks but cute voice...
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29th May 2006, 05:09 PM
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I love Maaya Sakamoto.
She's the whole reason I'm into J-pop. She really opened my eyes to a new world, and her music has helped me quite a bit. I owe her so much, but all I can do is be a fan. AHAHAHA! That's ridiculous! I don't really like Yuunagi LOOP or her new single very much though.....for me her best stuff came from Lucy, Shounen Alice and Easy Listening. Oh well.
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29th May 2006, 06:09 PM
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I really like both of her compilation albums.
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