Ayasa

, known professionally by the mononym Ayasa, is a Japanese rock musician a native of Tokyo, was born on 19 October 1991, and at the age of three, she started playing the violin. namely at Okayama Symphony Hall with the Saint Petersburg Festival Orchestra in December 2009. In 2011, Ayasa became a producer of the Sword of the Far East rock violin music project, serving alongside Do As Infinity band member Dai Nagao.

2015–present: Solo career, Chronicle, and BanG Dream! In January 2015, Ayasa announced that she would depart from Sword of the Far East, citing a desire to do solo work as a reason. In November 2015, she released her first solo album, Chronicle I.

Ayasa, whose love of anime had stemmed from her interest in Rozen Maiden music during her adolescence, later regained interest in anime after watching Code Geass. Anime! Anime, a Japanese-language anime news site, praised her "splendid cosplay appearance and outstanding violin skills".

In 2015, she appeared as herself in Not Anymore!, a mockumentary film where she is the subject of a documentary film. In July 2018, Ayasa was announced as a guest in the 2018 Anime Festival Asia event in Jakarta, Indonesia. In August 2018, Ayasa played a violin medley of Fate/Grand Order music at the Fate/Grand Order Fes. 2018, with Akiba Souken calling the performance "sometimes elegant and sometimes intense", and she and singer formed the duo +A and performed the song Bōkyaku no Saint, the ending theme song of Fuji TV show ; the song was later released as part of a single on 8 August 2018. In October 2018, Ayasa played the theme song of The Prince of Tennis: Best Games!! Tezuka vs Atobe, and the single it was included in charted at #136 in the Oricon Album Charts.

In March 2020, Ayasa was announced as the violinist of Morfonica, one of the bands of Bushiroad's BanG Dream! multimedia franchise, and as the voice actor of Rui Yashio, the violinist and composer of the band's fictional counterpart of the same name. Her role as Rui was Ayasa's first voice acting role. In 2022, she appeared with the rest of Morfonica in the anime spinoff Morfonication.

Discography Albums Title Year Album details Peak chart positions JPN Chronicle I 2015 Released: 9 December 2015 Label: Juggler 102 Chronicle II 2016 Released: 29 June 2016 Label: Dreamusic 64 Chronicle III 2016 Released: 19 October 2016 Label: Dreamusic 81 Chronicle IV 2016 Released: 21 December 2016 Label: Dreamusic 112 Best I 2017 Released: 25 January 2017 Label: Dreamusic 52 Best I Special Edition Ver.1 2017 Released: 29 March 2017 Label: Dreamusic 112 Chronicle V 2018 Released: 24 January 2018 Label: Dreamusic 91 Chronicle VI 2019 Released: 1 June 2019 — Chronicle VII 2019 Released: 1 July 2019Chronicle VII did not enter the Top 50 of the Oricon Albums chart, but peaked at number 27 on the Oricon Digital Albums chart.

Filmography Anime television BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico: Ohmori (2020) as Rui Yashio BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! Pico Fever! (2021-2022) as Rui Yashio BanG Dream! Morfonication (2022) as Rui Yashio Films Not Anymore! (2015) as Ayasa BanG Dream! Film Live 2nd Stage (2021) as Rui Yashio Video games BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! (2020-present) as Rui Yashio