Video game voice actress/singer Nana Mizuki sold 55,000 and 52,000 copies of her “Scarlet Knight” and “Pop Master” singles, respectively, to rank them #2 and #3 on Oricon’s CD singles chart for the April 11-17 week in Japan. Thus, she became the first voice actress or actor (seiyu) to put two singles in the weekly top 3 simultaneously under her real name.
"Pop Master" served as the theme song for mobile game Idol wo Tsukurou, while "Unbreakable," the second song on the "Pop Master" single, is the opening theme song for the UnchainBlades Rexx game for the Nintendo 3DS and Sony PSP systems.
The official website for 37-year-old anime voice actress/singer Nana Mizuki announced on April 16 that her new song "ACROSS" is used as the theme song for the upcoming fourth chapter of Bandai Namco Entertainment's smartphone game Tales of Asteria, "Tsuioku no Eden/Eden in Reminiscence," to be available before the end of this year and that she will again reprise her role as Colette Brunel (the main heroine in the Tales of Symphonia series) in the chapter.
Popular Japanese singer Nana Mizuki's new album (currently untitled) will be released on December 21. The album will consist of her new song "UNLIMITED BEAT", which has been chosen as the theme song for smart phone game 'Senki Zessho Symphogear XD UNLIMITED."
I always find it odd how articles like this are approved, especially with no comments. I mean, I would place hard money on the fact that 99.9% of people have no idea who this person is or what game this is.
You are quite right most readers here would probably know little if anything about the Japanese anime and gaming industry. Even if some people here like anime most would wait for the Dub in their language so they would never be aware of the actual Japanese voices.
Even though I have very little understanding of the Japanese language I know enough to know if subtitles are actually following the gist of the story and on some occasions I actually prefer the Japanese voices with good subbing to the actual English (my primary language) dubbing.
One thing that I do know with Japanese anime market is that it is becoming more popular (maybe to do with cost saving) for the primary voice actresses (can also apply to voice actors) to actually sing the title and/or ending songs, although this does depend on the anime. This, in turn makes them very marketable in that they can do voice acting as well as singing. If you look at the Bio of Nana Mizuki https://en.wikipedia.org/wi... you will be able to see that she has done plenty of voice acting for anime and games since 1998.
She also has been one of the main voice actress/singer of the Senki Zessho Symphogear series (3 seasons) so it's no real surprise she was chosen as a voice actress/singer for Senki Zessho Symphogear XD UNLIMITED.
Japanese singer Nana Mizuki's upcoming single will drop in stores on July 13. The single will contain a total of three tracks; The second number "Antiphona" is the theme song for smartphone game app "THE TOWER OF PRINCESS."
It's interesting that Japan has a lot of video game theme songs make it to the top of the music charts, while in many Western countries the idea would seem laughable. It would be pretty awesome if one day the English theme songs were played on the radio and on tv in the West.