Person: Maekawa Youko

Maekawa Youko is an anime song and jazz singer from Saga Prefecture. She debuted as early as 1963 during her first year in middleschool with the title song for NHK's puppet theater show Hyokkori Hyoutanjima. In that time a solo child singer was quite unusual, it was common practice that children's shows' theme songs were sung by choirs and choral groups of boys and girls. She continued her career by singing for 60's anime like Mahou Tsukai Sally and Ribbon no Kishi. During the 70's her performance included songs for shows like Cutey Honey and Majokko Meg-chan. She then did a maternity leave and returned to singing in 1982 for the anime Asari-chan. In more recent times she could be seen performing her sideline jazz singing and appearing actively on certain anime events.