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.

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Name (English)

Ichirō Mizuki

Name (Japanese)

水木一郎

Reading

みずき いちろう

Born

January 7, 1948 – December 6, 2022

Origin

Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan

Height

170 cm

Occupation

lyricist / actor / singer-songwriter / seiyū / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rat

Agency

イエローバード

Active years

1968 - 2022

High school

Setagaya Gakuen Junior & Senior High School

Works summary

Appearances

319 (1968–2023)

By year

1968: 1, 1969: 2, 1970: 2, 1972: 2, 1974: 1, 1976: 1, 1978: 1, 1979: 3, 1984: 1, 1986: 1, 1987: 1, 1989: 1, 1990: 2, 1991: 4, 1992: 3, 1993: 1, 1994: 2, 1995: 1, 1997: 2, 1998: 1, 1999: 5, 2000: 1, 2001: 3, 2002: 2, 2004: 4, 2005: 5, 2006: 3, 2007: 6, 2008: 2, 2009: 5, 2010: 6, 2011: 7, 2012: 7, 2013: 1, 2014: 3, 2015: 1, 2016: 3, 2017: 1, 2018: 3, 2019: 3, 2021: 3, 2022: 2, 2023: 1

Debut work

君にささげる僕の歌

Filmography / notable works

• Official sitehttps://www.mizuki-spirits.com
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/ichiromizuki/
• Xhttps://x.com/aniki_z
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichirou%20Mizuki
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E6%B0%B4%E6%9C%A8%E4%B8%80%E9%83%8E
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34580

Tags

• Tokyo
• lyricist
• actor
• singer-songwriter

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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