Fire Bomber


Fire Bomber is a fictional rock band from the anime series Macross 7. In real life, Fire Bomber's music was performed by Yoshiki Fukuyama, Chie Kajiura, and occasionally by Tomo Sakurai.
The four band members are among the main characters of Macross 7, whose narrative significantly focuses on their adventures. The band members sing on stage as well as in space, where they occasionally engage in combat in their mecha. In the fictional world of Macross, Fire Bomber was pivotal in defeating the alien Protodeviln after discovering that their music was the only thing capable of affecting them.
Three of their songs were also featured in the 2008 series Macross Frontier, as S.M.S. Skull Leader Ozma Lee is a fan of the band. In the second Macross Frontier movie, Ranka Lee and other SMS members acted as the cover band of Fire Bomber as part of a diversion to free Sheryl Nome from prison.

Fictional line-up

  • Basara Nekki – Lead vocals, guitar
  • Mylene Flare Jenius – Bass, co-lead vocals
  • Ray Lovelock – Keytar
  • Veffidas Feaze – Drums

    Real line-up

  • Vocals – Yoshiki Fukuyama and Nobutoshi Hayashi
  • Vocals – Chie Kajiura and Tomo Sakurai
  • Bass – Yukio Sugi
  • Drums – Kazuo Sitay
  • Guitars – Yoshiki Fukuyama
  • Guitars – Haruhiko Mera
  • Guitars – Masaki Suzuki
  • Keyboards – Seiji Tanaka

    Discography

Albums

  • Let's Fire!!. The first Macross 7/Fire Bomber album was released. It contains the tracks played in the first half of the TV series in more or less the order in which they appear in the episodes.
  • Second Fire!. The second Fire Bomber CD. Contains the songs played in the second half of the series, including the two "Let's Bomber!" video songs.
  • Dynamite Fire!! The Dynamite OVA song album. Songs are in more or less the order in which they appear in the series, though there are several that are no sung in the OVA.
  • Radio Fire!!. This CD contains the complete radio program from all the radio broadcasts from Elma's radio and the Zola public radio in the Dynamite OVA. Most of the tracks on this CD are drama tracks. There are also different versions of Fire Bomber songs and songs by other artists.
  • Live Fire!!. A recording CD of Fire Bomber live in concert. The tracks are mostly sung by the voice actor of Basara and Mylene, not their singing voices from the anime.
  • Kara-OK Fire!!. Karaoke album of most of the songs that appear in the TV series. Contains duet and guitar karaoke bonus tracks at the end for Planet Dance.
  • Acoustic Fire!! The songs on this acoustic album are not quite the acoustic versions found in the anime itself. There's more instrumentation, though little enough to be called "acoustic". The album also has a more "country American" feel to it, since it was recorded in the US.
  • Ultra Fire!! "Best of" Fire Bomber album.
  • Galaxy Network Chart 1. A "real" Macross universe album containing tracks from what is probably a single week of the Galaxy Network Chart's top 10 ratings of bands from all over the galaxy. Note that Fire Bomber has five of the ten spots.
  • Galaxy Network Chart 2 As above.
  • Mylene Jenius Sings Lynn Minmay Two female vocalists of Macross join forces in this album. Mylene sings Minmay's most famous songs including Ai Oboeteimasu ka?, the version of which appears in Fleet of the Strongest Women. The singer is not Chie Kajiura, Mylene's series singing voice, but is instead her voice actress Sakurai Tomo.
  • English Fire. All the songs on this album have been redone in English by the band Fire Bomber American. Instead of simply being English versions of Fire Bomber songs, the makers of Macross have created an English version of the band Fire Bomber. In the Macross universe, Fire Bomber American is a band on the English-speaking fleet Macross 11 that claims that the Macross 7 Fire Bomber is a rip-off of it. The singers for this band are also different. According to the fictional Macross continuity Lynn Kaifun, a character from the first TV series from 1982 is the creator and manager of Fire Bomber American.
  • Best Collection
  • Other Fire!!
  • Memorial CD
  • "Seventh Moon" single
  • "My Friends" single
  • "Heart and Soul" single
  • "Dynamite Explosion" single
  • "Fukuyama Fire". On May 24, 2005, 10 years after Macross 7 aired in Japan, Yoshiki Fukuyama released a tribute album in which he sings the most popular Macross 7 songs with new arrangements plus a new song.
  • Re.Fire. Fifteen years after Macross 7 first aired in Japan, Fire Bomber released its newest album, Re.Fire in Japan on October 14, 2009. This new album brings 10 newly made songs, and two new versions of the hit songs "Love It" and "Totsugeki Love Heart".

    Songs

SongsComposerLyricsDebutVocalsAlbums
Seventh MoonAtsutaka KawachiK. InojoEpisode 1 Yoshiki Fukuyama
Planet DanceSudou HidekiK. InojoEpisode 1Yoshiki Fukuyama and Chie Kajiura
My FriendsMiki KawanoM. MegEpisode 1 Chie Kajiura
Totsugeki Love HeartKawauchi AtsutakaK. InojoEpisode 1Yoshiki Fukuyama
My Soul For YouYoshiki FukuyamaK. InojoEpisode 2, full version: Episode 3Yoshiki Fukuyama
Sweet FantasyOotsukiM. MegEpisode 10Chie Kajiura
Remember SixteenKawauchi AtsutakaK. InojoEpisode 17Yoshiki Fukuyama and Chie Kajiura
Holy Lonely LightSudou HidekiK. InojoEpisode 21Yoshiki Fukuyama and Chie Kajiura
Submarine StreetShun'ya FukudaK. InojoEpisode 29Yoshiki Fukuyama
Power to the DreamYoshiki FukuyamaK. InojoEpisode 32Yoshiki Fukuyama
Try AgainYoshiki FukuyamaK. InojoEpisode 40Yoshiki Fukuyama
Light The LightK. InojoTSUKASAEpisode 41Yoshiki Fukuyama and Chie Kajiura
Angel VoiceYoko KannoK. InojoMacross Dynamite 7Yoshiki Fukuyama
Feel UniverseMacross Dynamite 7Yoshiki Fukuyama
Dynamite ExplosionMacross Dynamite 7 Yoshiki Fukuyama
New FrontierMacross Dynamite 7Yoshiki Fukuyama
ParadeMacross Dynamite 7 Yoshiki Fukuyama
Burning FireindyMacross Ultimate Frontier Yoshiki Fukuyama