Fire bomber
| Fire bomber | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Founding members | |
Lead vocals, guitar |
Basara Nekki |
Vocals, bass |
Mylene Flare Jenius |
| Ray Lovelock | |
| Veffidas Feaze | |
Fire Bomber is the name of a fictional rock band from the Macross series and film universe, which held the title role from the series complex Macross 7 , which consists of a television series, an original video animation and a movie. A large number of albums and singles for the Japanese record market have been released under the name of the band.
biography
The real line-up behind the fictional characters was the Japanese rock formation Humming Bird and the seiyū of the characters Mylene Flare Jenius and Nekki Basara, Tomo Sakurai and Nobutoshi Hayashi . Even if the group Humming Bird is behind the recordings, the media relating to the episodes and films around Macross 7 were published in full under the name of the fictional band.
For more information on the characters in the series and their history, see the article on the Macross 7 series .
Discography
A total of eleven music albums, one best-of album and five single CDs have been released under the name of the band Fire Bomber :
- Albums
- 1995 - Galaxy Network Chart Vol. 1
- 1995 - Mylene Jenius sings Lynn Minmay
- 1995 - Docking Festival ~ Ka ha ginga wo sukū
- 1995 - Let's Fire !!
- 1995 - Live Fire !!
- 1995 - Second Fire !!
- 1995 - Karaoke Fire !!
- 1996 - Galaxy Network Chart Vol. 2
- 1996 - Acoustic Fire !!
- 1998 - Dynamite Fire !!
- 1998 - English Fire !!
- 1998 - Radio Fire !!
- 1999 - Ultra Fire !! Fire Bomber Best Album ( Best-of-Album )
- Maxi singles
- Seventh Moon
- My friends
- Heart and Soul
- Dynamite explosion
reception
The band gave at least one concert under the name Fire Bomber, at which the seiyū were also present, who were mainly recorded for setting the dialogues without singing, but occasionally also performed some of the vocal work within their roles. A concert recording was pressed on CD and released as an album Live Fire !! released.
At another event for the 25th anniversary of the first television series Chōjiku Yosai Macross , the band appeared again on August 18, 2007 at a concert in the Nippon Seinenkan Grand Hall , which was announced under the name Minmay meets Fire Bomber .
The fictional band is also listed as the artist in the credits when their song Totsugeki Love Heart (Japanese 突 撃 ラ ブ ハ ー ト ) can be heard in the background in the second episode of the Macross 7 television series Macross Frontier . In the 17th episode, the songs My Soul for you and Try again are played with the name of the band.
Individual evidence
- ↑ totsugeki LOVE HEART! :: MACROSS 7 - | Fire Bomber | -. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 21, 2009 ; accessed on March 28, 2009 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Live Fire !! Fire bomber. (No longer available online.) Ex: The Online World of Anime & Manga, archived from the original on July 12, 2009 ; accessed on April 1, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Macross 25th Anniversary Concert to Be Held in Tokyo. Anime News Network, May 27, 2007, accessed April 1, 2009 (Japanese source linked there is offline.).
- ↑ End credits of the respective episodes of the series
- ↑ Macross Frontier (TV). Anime News Network, accessed April 1, 2009 (English, trivia collection for the series, e.g. cross-references to other series in the Macross universe.): “In episode 2, Fire Bomber's Totsugeki Love Heart「 突 撃 ラ ブ ハ ー ト 」song from Macross 7 is playing in Ozma's car. The song is also listed in the credits for the episode. "
