Japanese singer-songwriter Sayuri, who performed theme songs for anime like Lycoris Recoil and Scum’s Wish, has passed away at the age of 28.
The news was announced on the singer’s X (formerly) Twitter account by her spouse and fellow music artist Amaarashi. According to the statement, Sayuri passed on September 20 JST.
In a repost, Amaarashi said that Sayuri had been grappling with a chronic illness.
Sayuri began performing as a teenager, with her Apple Music profile noting that she dropped out of high school to perform as part of the acoustic duo LONGTAL. She received the Grand Prix at the Yamaha Music Revolution competition in 2012.
The singer made her major debut in 2015 with “Mikazuki,” the ending theme of Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace. Her first full album, Mikazuki no Kokai, was released in 2017.
Aside from “Mikazuki,” anime viewers would have recognized Sayuri’s distinctive voice from songs like “It is like a small light” (the ending theme of Erased), “Moon & Bouquet” (the ending theme of Fate/EXTRA Last Encore), “Parallel lines” (the ending theme of Scum’s Wish), “Sekai no Himitsu” (the ending theme of Edens Zero) and “Hana no Tou” (the ending theme of Lycoris Recoil). Sayuri also collaborated with MY FIRST STORY for the Golden Kamuy Season 2 opening “Dawn.”
The profile section of Sayuri’s website describes the late artist as “2.5D-parallel singer/songwriter who strums her acoustic guitar as shesings, as ‘Sanketsu-girl’ (hypoxia girl) – an icon of the ‘Sanketsu generation’ who feel the sense of inferiority and just the same amount of superiority to their own sensibility and values that are different from others.”
Source: @taltalasuka
