Mili (musical group)

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Mili
OriginJapan
GenresIndie
Years active2012–present
LabelsSaihate Records[1]
MembersCassie "Momocashew" Wei
Yamato "Hamo" Kasai
Yukihito Mitomo
Shoto Yoshida
Ao Fujimori
Past membersAme Yamaguchi
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata

Mili is a Japanese indie music group founded in August 2012, consisting of Cassie Wei, Yamato Kasai, Yukihito Mitomo, Shoto Yoshida, and Ao Fujimori. Mili covers electronic classical, contemporary classical, and post-classical genres of music[2] and is not limited to songs in Japanese, but also in English, Chinese, and French. Aside from releasing their own songs, Mili has also contributed their music, lyrics, and/or songs to various media such as the rhythm games Cytus and Deemo, other games like Library of Ruina, Limbus Company, Promise of Wizard, Arknights, and ENDER LILIES, commercial video, and for other artists.[3] Mili is labeled under Saihate Records; as of October 2019 and announced in April 2020, they have separated from their music management company.[1][4]

The group's YouTube channel is considered exceptional within the indie world, exceeding 500,000 YouTube subscribers.[5] Three of their released CDs took the first places in Oricon Indies chart, as well as appearing in Summer Sonic for two consecutive years since 2017.[6] The group is named after the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, "Dear Mili."[7]

Members[edit]

Mili consists of the following five members:[3][8]

  • Yamato Kasai or HAMO – main composer, main arranger, sub lyricist, guitarist
  • Cassie Wei, or momocashew – vocalist, main lyricist. Canadian-Chinese, born in China, raised in Canada, now living in Japan[9]
  • Yukihito Mitomo – bassist. Kasai's friend, joined Mili in December 2013[10]
  • Shoto Yoshida – drummer. Kasai's friend, joined Mili in December 2013[10]
  • Ao Fujimori – illustrator, animator. Joined Mili in September 2014[11]

Former members[edit]

  • Ame Yamaguchi – stylist, designer, art director. Joined Mili in May 2014; left in August 2019 to work on personal projects[8]

History and works[edit]

2024

Discography[edit]

Albums[edit]

Studio albums[edit]

Title Album details Track listing Peak chart positions
JPN
Oricon
[57] 		JPN
Billboard
Mag Mell
  • Released: September 17, 2014
  • Label: Saihate Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download

13 tracks

  1. A Turtle's Heart
  2. Nine Point Eight
  3. Utopiosphere
  4. Friction
  5. Chocological
  6. YUBIKIRI-GENMAN
  7. Sacramentum: Unaccompanied Hymn for Torino
  8. Ephemeral
  9. Imagined Flight
  10. Fable
  11. Rosetta
  12. Maroma Samsa
  13. Witch's Invitation
 31 21[58]
Miracle Milk
  • Released: October 12, 2016
  • Label: Saihate Records
  • Formats: CD, Vinyl, digital download

19 tracks

  1. Red Dahlia
  2. Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery
  3. RTRT
  4. Unidentified Flavourful Object
  5. Meatball Submarine
  6. Vulnerability
  7. Nenten (与我共鳴-NENTEN-)
  8. Bathtub Mermaid
  9. Cerebrite
  10. Space Colony　
  11. world.execute(me);
  12. Utopiosphere -Platonism-
  13. Painful Death for the Lactose Intolerant
  14. Yubikiri-Genman -special edit-
  15. Sl0t
  16. Past the Stargazing Season　
  17. Colorful
  18. Komm, süsser Tod (cover of movie The End of Evangelion's insert song)
  19. Shitty Flowers (hidden track)[59]
 12 9[60]
Millennium Mother
  • Released: April 24, 2018
  • Label: Saihate Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download

20 tracks

  1. Boys in Kaleidosphere
  2. Camelia
  3. Summoning 101
  4. Vitamins feat. World's End Girlfriend
  5. Lemonade
  6. Milk (奶水)
  7. world.search(you);
  8. Mushrooms
  9. Gertrauda
  10. Tokyo Neon
  11. Extension of You
  12. Mirror Mirror
  13. With a Billion Worldful of <3 feat. DÉ DÉ Mouse
  14. Every Other Ghost
  15. Fossil
  16. Rubber Human
  17. Excαlibur
  18. Let the Maggots Sing
  19. Nine Point Eight -special edit-
  20. Still Alive (cover of Portal's ending theme)
 17 12[61]

Mini album[edit]

Title Album details Track listing Peak chart positions
JPN
Oricon
[57] 		JPN
Billboard
Hue
  • Released: May 24, 2017
  • Label: Saihate Records
  • Formats: CD, digital download

6 tracks

  1. Rubber Human
  2. World.search(you);
  3. DK
  4. Ikutoshitsuki (幾年月)
  5. Opium
  6. Excαlibur
 25 21[62]
To Kill a Living Book -for Library Of Ruina-
  • Release: October 9, 2021
  • Label: Saihate Records
  • Format: CD, Cassette, Vinyl, digital download
  • Soundtrack from the video game Library of Ruina

8 tracks

  1. String Theocracy
  2. From a Place of Love
  3. And Then is Heard No More
  4. Iron Lotus
  5. Children of the City
  6. Gone Angels
  7. Poems of a Machine
  8. Salt, Pepper, Birds, and Thought Police
 - -
Let's Lament
  • Released: Jan 21, 2024
  • Label: Saihate Records
  • Format: Digital download, Vinyl
  • Piano remixes of music from Limbus Company

2 tracks

  1. In Hell, We Live, Lament (Let's Lament)
  2. Between Two Worlds (Let's Lament)
 - -

Single[edit]

Title Year Track listing Peak positions Album
JPN
Oricon
[63]
"Rightfully" 2018

5 tracks

  1. Rightfully (opening theme for television anime Goblin Slayer)
  2. Mob Mentality
  3. Region
  4. Though Our Paths May Diverge
  5. Rightfully (instrumental)
 24 Non-album single
"Intrauterine Education" 2020

6 tracks

  1. sustain++; (ending song for television anime Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045)
  2. Petrolea
  3. War of Shame
  4. sustain++; (instrumental)
  5. Petrolea (instrumental)
  6. War of Shame (instrumental)
 30
"Ame to Taieki to Nioi/Static" (雨と体液と匂い/Static) 2020

4 tracks

  1. Ame to Taieki to Nioi(ending song for television anime Gleipnir)
  2. Static(ending song for anime movie Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown)
  3. Ame to Taieki to Nioi (instrumental)
  4. Static(instrumental)
 28

Others[edit]

Title Release date Notes Track Listing Source
"Chocological" October 28, 2012 Included in compilation album Music on Our Palms

1 track

  1. Chocological
 [1]
MuNiCa – Cry of Pluto [Original Soundtrack] April 7, 2013 Soundtrack for the video game MuNiCa - Cry of Pluto

8 tracks

  1. Main Theme
  2. A Wonderful Tale
  3. The Cathedral Which Burns
  4. In Imperial Cathedral
  5. Unexpected
  6. Madism
  7. Main Theme (Piano Version)
  8. Outro
 [2]
H△G×Mili November 27, 2013 Split album with H△G

4 tracks

  1. Witch's Invitation
  2. Sacramentum:Unaccompanied Hymn for Torino
  3. Nine Point Eight
  4. 星見る頃を過ぎても -Canon and Gigue in Plectrum Remix-
 [3]
"Klavier" March 8, 2014 Piano album by Yamato Kasai

5 tracks

  1. A Flower Sings
  2. 999
  3. L.O.V.
  4. Flashback
  5. Ephemeral
 [4] [5]
"Holy and Darkness 1" December 22, 2014 Collaboration with Tasuku Arai

1 track

  1. Holy and Darkness 1
 [6]
H△G×Mili vol.2 May 9, 2015 Split album with H△G

4 tracks

  1. Cerebrite
  2. Space Colony
  3. Inhibition
  4. Colorful
 [7]
ENDER LILIES:Quietus of the Knights Original Soundtrack June 22, 2021 Original soundtrack for Binary Haze Interactive's Ender Lilies: Quietus of the Knights

50 tracks

[8]
Key Ingredient June 2, 2022 Piano Cover album of previously released songs, instrumental version also released

13 tracks

  1. A Turtle's Heart
  2. world.execute(me);
  3. Iron Lotus
  4. RTRT
  5. TOKYO NEON
  6. Rubber Human
  7. Birthday Kid
  8. String Theocracy
  9. Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery
  10. Lemonade
  11. Summoning 101
  12. From a Place of Love
  13. Chocological
 [9] [10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Saihate Records". Archived from the original on 7 March 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  2. ^ Mili tagged their music in Bandcamp as electronic classical, contemporary classical, electronica, and post-classical.
  3. ^ a b "Biography — Mili Official Website". Mili Official Website. Mili. Archived from the original on 17 May 2017. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  4. ^ Mili [@ProjectMili] (April 8, 2020). "We have terminated our exclusive contract with our music management company since October 2019. Please feel free to contact us directly via email for work or booking inquiries from now on" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
  5. ^ "Mili". YouTube. Retrieved 2021-11-07.
  6. ^ a b "ミュージック". TVアニメ「メルクストーリア」公式サイト (in Japanese). Retrieved 14 July 2019.
  7. ^ "momocashew (@momocashew). Ask me anything on ASKfm". ASKfm. 19 May 2015. Retrieved 2021-04-09.
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  9. ^ ""既視感のない面白さと、馴染みのあるエッセンス。"『Mili』インタビュー". TuneCore Japan. 2016-11-05. Retrieved 2017-05-04.
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  12. ^ "解体と造形 KAITAI TO ZOKEI - HAMO". YouTube. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  13. ^ "2台のインタラクティブ ホワイトボードで芸術作品に挑戦！（20秒編）". YouTube. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
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  15. ^ ">A flower sings by Yamato Kasai/Mili". SoundCloud. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
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  25. ^ "Mag Milk". Mili Official Website. Retrieved 2 September 2017.
  26. ^ "Mommy, where's my left hand again?". Mili Official Website. Retrieved 25 March 2018.
  27. ^ "News—Mili Official Website". Mili Official Website. Retrieved 30 October 2018.
  28. ^ "Opening for TV anime Goblin Slayer". @ProjectMili at Twitter (in Japanese). Retrieved 14 October 2018.
  29. ^ "C3 AFA Singapore Guest Profile: mili". Retrieved 4 December 2018.
  30. ^ "Mother Ship Gi6pon English". Mili Official Website. Retrieved 6 November 2018.
  31. ^ Kasai, Yamato (10 September 2019). "AJIWAIIAJI". Mili Official Website. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
  32. ^ "#ILAMY19 Announcing the fourth and final artiste for I LOVE ANISONG Matsuri Malaysia 2019". AFA - ANIME FESTIVAL ASIA. Retrieved 25 August 2019.
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  34. ^ Mili - Static (Movie "Goblin Slayer: GOBLIN'S CROWN" Theme Song). 1 February 2020.
  35. ^ "Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 Anime's Video Previews Mili's Ending Song". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2020-04-17.
  36. ^ @mahoyaku_info (April 9, 2020). "音楽制作集団・Miliが手掛けた 魔法使いの約束の主題歌『Cast Me a Spell』の歌詞を" (Tweet) (in Japanese). Retweeted by Mili – via Twitter.
  37. ^ Mili [@projectmili] (April 13, 2020). "□お知らせ□ TVアニメ『グレイプニル』 EDテーマ「雨と体液と匂い（ending ver.）」 4月20日（月）0時～配信開始となります。 #グレイプニル #雨と体液と匂い" (Tweet) (in Japanese) – via Twitter.
  38. ^ "新作ゲーム『Ender Lilies』こちらの"全楽曲"をMiliが担当しました". Mili on Twitter. Retrieved 11 September 2020.
  39. ^ Mili - To Kill a Living Book -For Library of Ruina-. 29 October 2021.
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  41. ^ Mili - Sideshow Duckling. 1 February 2022.
  42. ^ Mili - My Creator. 19 February 2022.
  43. ^ Mili - Skin-Deep Comedy. 17 March 2022.
  44. ^ "NEW SONG "Paper Bouquet"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  45. ^ "NEW SONG "Mortal With You"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 2 January 2023.
  46. ^ "NEW SONG "Dancing Ghost's Ball Jointed Darling"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  47. ^ "NEW SONG "Between Two Worlds"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  48. ^ "NEW SONG "Gunners in the Rain"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  49. ^ "NEW SONG "Fly, My Wings"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  50. ^ "We'll be performing at Anime Expo this year!!!First performance in the US 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 please come join us!!It's "Mili" btw!". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  51. ^ "NEW SONG "Sleep Talk Metropolis"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  52. ^ "NEW SONG "Entertainment"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
  53. ^ "NEW SONG "Compass"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 17 December 2023.
  54. ^ "NEW SONG "Duetting Solo"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  55. ^ "Upcoming Game "ENDER MAGNOLIA"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 11 March 2024.
  56. ^ "NEW SONG "Grown-up's Paradise"". @ProjectMili at Twitter. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
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