Rionos

Rio Okano (岡野 里音 Okano Rio, born on March 5, 1991, in Kobe, Japan), also known as Rionos, is a Japanese singer, songwriter, and music producer. She has provided the music for anime, video games and other singers. The name "Rionos" is derived from the nickname "Rio no Suke" that her friend called her.

Biography Okano was born into a musical family. Her mother was a classical marimba player and her father was a jazz drummer. She grew up learning piano and violin. As a high school student, she gave up trying to become a classical player and often spent time at home because of her physical condition. She was inspired by movies, anime and game music, and she began to think about becoming a composer who could work at home.

She entered Osaka University of Arts in 2009 as a correspondence student. Her condition improved, so she attended computer music school Dee in Osaka in the autumn of 2009. In 2011, she was no longer a correspondence student at Osaka University of Arts from third year. It was released on CD in 2013. ）

After that, she provided songs for Yufu Terashima produced by Keitaro Kamo. In 2016, Lantis's producer Junnosuke Sato listened to her songs for Yufu and contacted her. She offered a demo of the theme song of Children of the Whales anime. She made her major debut from Lantis in 2017 in the anime's ending theme "Hashitairo". In the Märchen Mädchen anime of the following year, she composed background music in addition to ending theme.

In 2019, Rionos played the role of Reykjavík in the game, Machimusu Earth Defense Live.

Personality Okano claimed that her nickname was to express a little Greek-ish and mysterious feeling.

Discography

Personal discography +TitleAlbum detailsNotesread me. Released: May 15, 2013 Label: Independentハシタイロ / Hashitairo Released: October 25, 2017 Label: Lantis (LACM-14662)百年のメラム / Hundred years' melammu Released: October 25, 2017 Label: Lantis (LACM-14817)Collection of Ulysses: Jeanne d'Arc and the Alchemist Knight ending theme songs.

Anime soundtracks Label: Lantis (LACA-15716)Kase-san and Morning Glories Original Soundtrack Released: June 6, 2018 Label: Pony Canyon (PCCG-01671)Fragtime Original Soundtrack Released: November 20, 2019 Label: Pony Canyon (PCCG-01839)Machimusu Earth Defense Live Original Soundtrack Released: 2019

Anime theme arrangement

Game themes