Ichirō Mizuki

Born Toshio Hayakawa in Setagaya, Tokyo, in 1948, Ichiro Mizuki spent more than fifty years singing theme songs for anime and tokusatsu, recording over 1,200 of them before his death in December 2022. Read that number again. It is barely a human quantity of work. Outside Japan his name may not travel the way the shows did, but if you grew up on Mazinger Z you know the voice: the enormous, unembarrassed shout that opens a song and dares you not to sit up straight. What I admire most is that he never treated music for children as a lesser assignment. He delivered those songs at full power for decades, on television and on stage, still performing into his seventies. That refusal to condescend is why the fans who grew up on him kept calling him Aniki, big brother, long after they had grown up themselves.

Name (English)

Ichirō Mizuki

Name (Japanese)

水木一郎

Born

January 7, 1948 – December 6, 2022

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

Origin

Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Height

170 cm

Occupation

lyricist / actor / singer-songwriter / seiyū / singer

High school

Setagaya Gakuen Junior & Senior High School

Motto

Private

• Official sitehttp://www.mizuki-spirits.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ichiromizuki/
• Xhttps://x.com/aniki_z
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%9C%A8%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E

Tags

• Tokyo
• lyricist
• actor
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

2026-07-27

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.