Yoko Takahashi

Yoko Takahashi (高橋洋子) is a Japanese singer and anison artist born on August 28, 1966, in Tokyo. She works mainly in J-pop and singer-songwriter styles, and she is especially known for her anime theme songs, most famously "Zankoku na Tenshi no These (A Cruel Angel's Thesis)," the opening theme for Neon Genesis Evangelion. That song became one of the best-known anime openings of the 1990s and remains the track most closely associated with her name. Her Evangelion work also includes the closing theme "FLY ME TO THE MOON," heard in the series as an acid bossa rendition, and "Tamashii no Refrain (Refrain of Soul)" for Evangelion: Death and Rebirth. Beyond that franchise, Yoko Takahashi has performed "Metamorphose" for This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, "Yoake Umarekuru Shoujo" from Shakugan no Shana, and "Aoki Flamme" from Pumpkin Scissors. Her catalog shows why listeners searching for Yoko Takahashi songs, Yoko Takahashi anime songs, or 高橋洋子 continue to find her in some of anime music’s most memorable openings and endings. She has also been associated with Universal Music LLC, reinforcing her long-running presence in Japanese pop and anison.