JAMnote Japan Animation song (anison) Makers Project is a music supergroup composed of some of the best and most Hot Blooded musicians in the universe. It was founded in 2000 by Ichirou Mizuki (Mazinger Z, Great Mazinger, Devilman, ...), Hironobu Kageyama ("Cha-la Head Cha-la", "Soldier Dream"), Masaaki Endoh ("Yuusha-Oh Tanjou"), Eizo Sakamoto (lead singer of heavy metal bands Anthem and Animetal), and Rica Matsumoto ("Mezase Pokemon Master", "Rival", "OK!", ..., and voice of Satoshi).Currently, the band is composed of Kageyama, Endoh, Masami Okui ("Rinbu -Revolution-", "Shuffle"), Hiroshi Kitadani ("We Are", "Madan Senki Ryukendo") and Yoshiki Fukuyama (Singing voice of Nekki Basara and his single "Makkana Chikai", the OP to Busou Renkin). Mizuki reduced his status to "part-time member" after the group got off the ground, Sakamoto "graduated" from the group and rejoined Anthem, and Matsumoto left in April 2008 to pursue solo work. They are occasionally joined by Ricardo Cruz, Brazilian manga translator and Promoted Fanboy, on various recordings and in concerts in Brazil.See also Super Robot Wars, Awesome Music. Not to be confused with the antagonist aliens in Yukikaze known as the JAM.This band has performed songs for:
Super Robot Wars. A LOTnote To be correct, they've done the opening and ending songs for every SRW since 2000 with the exception of GC/XO and Neo:
éX-Driver ("Kaze ni Nare"- One of the earliest songs from the bandnote Made in 2000/2001, plus several insert songs and openings for the movie and Danger Zone)
And for some tidbits, Ichiro Mizuki lends his voice to voice Super Robot Wars Alpha 3's Big Bad Keisar Ephes.
This band provides examples of:
Anime Theme Song (the name of the band is Japan Animation songnote Anison Makers)
Ascended Extra: Ricardo Cruz. He started off as a concert-exclusive singer for when the band toured in Brazil, and then moved on to help out on some of the band's big songs like "Stormbringer" and "Transformers EVO.".
Cool Old Guys: They are at least in their early 40s (with Mizuki being in his 60s), and they still can rock out like people half their ages. To be fair, their age can show at times during live shows, but does that stop them? Hell No.
Crowd Song: SKILL has a habit of invoking this in concerts. MOTTO MOTTO!. Many of their songs seem to be made for this trope.
The members even acknowledge this, to the point where Masaaki Endoh, Hironobu Kageyama and Ricardo Cruz compete on-stage to see who's the hammiest!!
Massive Multiplayer Crossover: JAM is a fixture at the Animelo Summer Live anime music concerts, which could easily take up a page of their own.
If you have never seen/heard anything from the aforementioned concerts, get thyself to YouTube IMMEDIATELY or go to iTunes and look up "Re:bridge." Your mind will be blown.
Rearrange the Song: Although more a case of lyric recycling, for some reason the hook for the song "GONG" "Gongu wo narase" appears in a lot of their songs before their song "GONG" was even written. Also, parts of "SKILL" show up in "Rescue Fire" (Motto! Motto!) and "Bakuchin Kanryo! Rescue Fire" (I can fly! You can fly! We can fly!).
Red Oni, Blue Oni / Tomboy and Girly Girl (Matsumoto and Okui, before the former left. Matsumoto is consistently more energetic, has a more boyish voice (voicing hotblooded shounen heroes), even has shorter hair and is nicknamed Satoshi, and Makkun is more about feminine appeal and writes softer, more emotional songs like Peaceful One)
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