Shikao Suga (スガ シカオ Shikao Suga, born July 28, 1966) is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter from Tokyo known for writing the theme songs for several anime, movies and commercial ads. His name in kanji is 菅 止戈男. He uses katakana as his professional name.
"Yozora no Mukō", the song he wrote the lyrics to, and was sung by SMAP, has appeared in several Japanese music textbooks. Both SMAP's "Yozora no Mukō" (1998) and KAT-TUN's "Real Face" (2006) either debuted at or reached quickly the top spot in the Oricon charts, and sold over 1 million units each. (夜空ノムコウ) (Japan Top Singles)
Several of his songs have been used in anime television series and live action dramas and movies adapted from manga. Honey and Clover included songs from his album "Clover", like "Hachigatsu no Serenade", "Tsuki to Knife" and "Yubikiri". The song "Manatsu no Yoru no Yume" has appeared in the first Death Note live action movie as an insert song. His song "Yūdachi" was used as the closing theme for the movie Boogiepop and Others, and as the opening theme for the 2000 anime series Boogiepop Phantom. "Hajimari no Hi" was used as the first opening theme to Letter Bee , and after a year and three months, he released "Yakusoku", which would be the opening for the "Letter Bee" sequel, Letter Bee Reverse. In 2019's live action adaptation of the manga "Yotsuba ginkō Harashima Hiromi ga mono mōsu!~ Kono hito (on'na) ni kakero ~", his song "Tōi yoake" would be the first song he's written as a theme song for a TV Tokyo dorama.
He also did the theme songs to the XXXHOLiC anime series from CLAMP, including its movie xxxHOLiC: Manatsu no Yoru no Yume (Sanagi ~theme from xxxHOLiC the movie~), its first TV series season (Jūkyū-sai), and from "XXXHOLiC Kei", its second season (Nobody Knows). "Sofa" was the song used in the OVA "xxxHOLiC: Shunmuki" in February 17, 2009. In February 2013, XXXHOLiC live action drama started on WOWOW, and Suga's "Aitai" was used as its opening theme song. In 2015, CLAMP made the drawings for the music video for "あなたひとりだけ 幸せになることは 許されないのよ" (Anata hitori dake shiawase ni naru koto wa yurusarenai no you, also known as "Anayuru"), including in it images of characters from "XXXHOLiC", to celebrate his debut anniversary.
His songs have also been included in non-manga movies, like Dark Water ("Aozora") and Sweet Little Lies ("Ame agari no asa ni"), as well as countless of TV ads, like those of insurance agency Sony Sompo, and some car brands and housing businesses.
In Gintama, his name has been mentioned on episode 115, and his song "Progress" has been included in a parody in the series' "Shirogane no Tamashii" arc 2nd season's episode 9. "Progress" has also been included in a parody in episode 69 of Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion The Animation.
His name has also been included in Haruki Murakami's novel After dark, with reference to his song "Bakudan juice".(バクダン・ジュース)
He is involved in the poster campaign for Chica Umino's seinen manga series, March Comes in Like a Lion with Anne Watanabe. His song "Kizashi" was used in the commercial ad for the manga, and has appeared in it, as requested by Umino herself.
For Suga's 2013 album "Aitai", the cover and artist photo was made by Photographer and Film Director Mika Ninagawa
Shikao Suga Asia Circuit 2017 in Tokyo
As for his trips, in 2009 he made his first trip overseas, to London. It was to be the first time he appeared before a non-Japanese audience.
September 2017 he made his official first appearance in the American Continent, participating in the Greenroom Festival in Hawaii, which he repeated the following year
December 2017 he made his first trip within Asia, visiting Singapore on the 8th and Taiwan on the 17th, under the tour named "Shikao Suga Asia Circuit 2017". On the 26th of December he ends the tour in the city of Tokyo.
There is no schedule or ticket right now.
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