Minami Kuribayashi

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Minami Kuribayashi (栗林みな実 Kuribayashi Minami?, born June 11, 1976) is a Japanese singer-songwriter and voice actress (seiyū) from Shizuoka prefecture. Her bloodtype is AB, and her nickname is Kurinoko (栗の子).

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 13 weeks.[1] She has since performed songs for other games and anime, including series such as Muv-Luv, Chrono Crusade, My-HiME, My-Otome, 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.

Contents

[edit] Voice Roles

[edit] TV animation

[edit] OVA

[edit] Internet animation

[edit] Games

[edit] Discography

[edit] Minami Kuribayashi

[edit] Singles
# Single information Sales
Debut MuvLuv
  • Released: April 03, 2002
  • From album: Overture
  • Oricon top 200 position: #97
  • Theme song from: MuvLuv
 1,900
2nd Kaze no Yukue / Yours 4,500
3rd Precious Memories 31,000
4th Hoshizora no Waltz 10,500
5th Tsubasa wa Pleasure Line 23,700
6th Shining Days 24,200
7th Beginning 5,800
8th Shining Days (Re-Product & Remix) 5,000
9th MuvLuv 6,600
10th Blue Treasure 7,300
11h Dream Wing 14,500
12th Crystal Energy 20,600
13th Yell! 9,600
14th United Force 11,000
15th BUT, metamorphosis 2,700
16th Next Season/Sweet Passion +4,200
17th Love Jump 7,000
18th Unripe Hero -

[edit] Albums

  • 2004-12-01: Overture
  • 2006-04-26: Passage
  • 2006-12-21: Fantastic Arrow

[edit] Wild 3nin Musume

  • 2002-11-20: CC♪4U (Chiyoren-channel♪ for you) (featuring m.c Mayo) — Radio Osaka Chiyoren-channel♪ opening & ending theme
  • 2004-02-04: Junjou Fever (featuring Skytemple) — Radio Kiminozo Radio opening & ending theme
  • 2005-04-27: MAGIC — Web radio Kiminozo Radio opening & ending theme
  • 2006-03-08: Love Adventure — Web radio Kiminozo Radio 2nd opening & ending theme
  • 2007-11-07: Cutie Honey — TV drama Cutie Honey The Live opening theme

[edit] exige

  • 2005-12-21: Believe yourself — TV anime IGPX ending theme

[edit] Other

  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Dramatheater vol.1 Suzumiya Haruka
  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Dramatheater vol.2 Hayase Mitsuki
  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Dramatheater vol.3 Suzumiya Akane
  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Dramatheater vol.4 Rajio Special
  • SONGS FROM age
  • "Hello, world."
  • AngelicVale Progress special CD
  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Portrait＊2 Suzumiya Haruka
  • Kiminozo Radio CD
  • Fight～Theme of Rumbling Angel～
  • PC age CD-ROM2 vol.1
  • PC age CD-ROM2 vol.2
  • Galaxy Angel Yaminabe
  • PC age CD-ROM2 vol.3
  • School Days Vocal Album
  • Animelo 2006 ONENESS
  • PC age CD-ROM2 vol.4
  • Animelo 2007 Generation-A

[edit] Soundtrack CDs

  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Soundtrack Plus
  • Muv-Luv Original Soundtrack
  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Original Soundtrack vol. 1
  • Chrno Crusade Original Soundtrack Gospel.I
  • Kimi ga Nozomu Eien Original Soundtrack vol. 2
  • Tideline Blue Original Soundtrack
  • Akane Maniax Original Soundtrack
  • Muv-Luv Alternative Original Soundtrack
  • School Days Original Soundtrack
  • Summer Days Original Soundtrack

[edit] 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"

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Precious Memories", listed at Oricon Style

[edit] External links

(All links except Anime News Network are in Japanese)