# Mili (musical group)

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 in Japanese, English, Chinese, and French. Apart from releasing their own songs, Mili has also contributed their music, lyrics, and/or songs to various media such as video games, commercial video, and for other artists. Mili is labeled under Saihate Records; as of October 2019 and announced in April 2020, they have separated from their music management company.
Three of their released CDs placed first in the Oricon Indies chart, and they appeared in Summer Sonic 2017 and 2018. The group is named after the Brothers Grimm fairy tale, "Dear Mili." The band has also released music under the name AWAAWA.

## Members

Mili consists of the following five members:
* 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
* Yukihito Mitomo – bassist. Joined Mili in December 2013
* Shoto Yoshida – drummer. Joined Mili in December 2013
* Ao Fujimori – illustrator, animator. Joined Mili in September 2014

### Former members

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

## History and works
### 2024

* Song for video game Goblin Slayer Another Adventure: Nightmare Feast, "Duetting Solo" (February 29)
* Original Soundtrack for video game Ender Magnolia: Bloom in the Mist (March 25)
* Boss fight theme for Canto VI of video game Limbus Company, "Through Patches of Violet" (April)
* Promotional theme for video game Arknights, "Grown-up's Paradise" (April 26)
* OST for video game Snowbreak: Containment Zone (May)
* Boss fight theme for Canto VII of video game Limbus Company, "Hero" (October)
* Image Song for Promise of Wizard, "Life We Sow" (November)

## Honours

In 2025 scientists named a fossil barklouse †Psyllipsocus mili. The species is from the Cretaceous and its name was given in honor to the band’s “incredible music and art”.

## Discography
### Albums
#### Studio albums

| Title | Album details | Track listing | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | Track listing | JPN Oricon | JPN Billboard |
| Mag Mell | Released: September 17, 2014 Label: Saihate Records Formats: CD, digital download | 13 tracks A Turtle's Heart Nine Point Eight Utopiosphere Friction Chocological YUBIKIRI-GENMAN Sacramentum: Unaccompanied Hymn for Torino Ephemeral Imagined Flight Fable Rosetta Maroma Samsa Witch's Invitation | 31 | 21 |
| Miracle Milk | Released: October 12, 2016 Label: Saihate Records Formats: CD, Vinyl, digital download | 19 tracks Red Dahlia Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery RTRT Unidentified Flavourful Object Meatball Submarine Vulnerability Nenten (与我共鳴-NENTEN-) Bathtub Mermaid Cerebrite Space Colony　 world.execute(me); Utopiosphere -Platonism- Painful Death for the Lactose Intolerant Yubikiri-Genman -special edit- Sl0t Past the Stargazing Season　 Colorful Komm, süsser Tod (cover of movie The End of Evangelion's insert song) Shitty Flowers (hidden track) | 12 | 9 |
| Millennium Mother | Released: April 24, 2018 Label: Saihate Records Formats: CD, digital download | 20 tracks Boys in Kaleidosphere Camelia Summoning 101 Vitamins feat. World's End Girlfriend Lemonade Milk (奶水) world.search(you); Mushrooms Gertrauda Tokyo Neon Extension of You Mirror Mirror With a Billion Worldful of <3 feat. DÉ DÉ Mouse Every Other Ghost Fossil Rubber Human Excαlibur Let the Maggots Sing Nine Point Eight -special edit- Still Alive (cover of Portal's ending theme) | 17 | 12 |

#### Mini albums

| Title | Album details | Track listing | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Album details | Track listing | JPN Oricon | JPN Billboard |
| Hue | Released: May 24, 2017 Label: Saihate Records Formats: CD, digital download | 6 tracks Rubber Human world.search(you); DK Ikutoshitsuki (幾年月) Opium Excαlibur | 25 | 21 |
| 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 String Theocracy From a Place of Love And Then is Heard No More Iron Lotus Children of the City Gone Angels Poems of a Machine Salt, Pepper, Birds, and the 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 In Hell We Live, Lament (Let's Lament) Between Two Worlds (Let's Lament) | - | - |

### Single

| Title | Year | Track listing | Peak positions | Album |
| Title | Year | Track listing | JPN Oricon | Album |
| "Rightfully" | 2018 | 5 tracks Rightfully (opening theme for television anime Goblin Slayer) Mob Mentality Region Though Our Paths May Diverge Rightfully (instrumental) | 24 | Non-album single |
| "Intrauterine Education" | 2020 | 6 tracks sustain++; (ending song for television anime Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045) Petrolea War of Shame sustain++; (instrumental) Petrolea (instrumental) War of Shame (instrumental) | 30 | Non-album single |
| "Ame to Taieki to Nioi/Static" (雨と体液と匂い/Static) | 2020 | 4 tracks Ame to Taieki to Nioi (ending song for television anime Gleipnir) Static(ending song for anime movie Goblin Slayer: Goblin's Crown) Ame to Taieki to Nioi (instrumental) Static (instrumental) | 28 | Non-album single |

### Others

| Title | Release date | Notes | Track Listing |
| "Chocological" | October 28, 2012 | Included in compilation album Music on Our Palms | 1 track Chocological |
| MuNiCa – Cry of Pluto [Original Soundtrack] | April 7, 2013 | Soundtrack for the video game MuNiCa - Cry of Pluto | 8 tracks Main Theme A Wonderful Tale The Cathedral Which Burns In Imperial Cathedral Unexpected Madism Main Theme (Piano Version) Outro |
| H△G×Mili | November 27, 2013 | Split album with H△G | 4 tracks Witch's Invitation Sacramentum:Unaccompanied Hymn for Torino Nine Point Eight 星見る頃を過ぎても -Canon and Gigue in Plectrum Remix- |
| "Klavier" | March 8, 2014 | Piano album by Yamato Kasai | 5 tracks A Flower Sings 999 L.O.V. Flashback Ephemeral |
| "Holy and Darkness 1" | December 22, 2014 | Collaboration with Tasuku Arai | 1 track Holy and Darkness 1 |
| H△G×Mili vol.2 | May 9, 2015 | Split album with H△G | 4 tracks Cerebrite Space Colony Inhibition Colorful |
| 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 |
| Key Ingredient | June 2, 2022 | Piano Cover album of previously released songs, instrumental version also released | 13 tracks A Turtle's Heart world.execute(me); Iron Lotus RTRT TOKYO NEON Rubber Human Birthday Kid String Theocracy Ga1ahad and Scientific Witchery Lemonade Summoning 101 From a Place of Love Chocological |