Faylan Biography

## **Summary**

Faylan started her music career in 2002, under the name MASAMI. After 2003, she started going by the chinese characters writing of her name, pronounced Feiran (飛蘭). This name was given to her by producer Noriyasu Agematsu. It means 'to fly and dance like the orchids'. Her real name is unknown, but some of her work as a lyricist is credited online as Seki Masami (Seki being the family name). Previous to debuting, she studied dance at Okinawa Actors School International Tokyo and singing at Muse Music School. Faylan is affectionately called "Faynyan" by her fans, "nyan" being "meow" in Japanese. She is known to love having pets, including ferrets and cats. Faylan's hobby is calligraphy as seen on Run Run Lan, in 2009. Her blood type is A and she is 154cm tall. She used to sing for doujins and sell her work at Comiket. After a few years of indie releases, she signed to Hobi Records for a while, but later debuted under Lantis and S-inc in July 22nd, 2009 with the single 'mind as Judgment'. She has worked for multiple animes and video games, including Future Diary, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, Girls Bravo, Touhou Lost World, Ga-rei Zero and much more.

## **Her official SNS**

Website

Blog (Touch the Faylan) Since February 28th 2009

Twitter (@faylan\_staff) Since 2010

Instagram (@faylan\_s) Since July 19th 2023

Old Website (Archive)

N-bibibi Corner (Occasional posts)

### Special Websites

Anisama Girls Night (anisama.tv/girls)

Zero Hearts (https://web.archive.org/web/20141208135638/https://www.s-inc.jp/faylan/zeroherts/index.html)

Errand (https://www.lantis.jp/special/faylan/errand/)

ALIVE (https://www.lantis.jp/special/faylan/alive/)

POLARIS (https://www.lantis.jp/special/faylan/polaris/)

## **2002-2008**

During these years she released a few songs independently, and in 2007 signed to Hobi Records and released Gekka no Rasen on April 6th. In an interview, she mentions a label that she signed to that had gone bankrupt, and it could be this one. She was also credited in a few albums, like in Ga-rei Zero 'Yurimu Croquette' (2008). In 2008, Faylan auditioned for over 100 companies. She sang temporary tracks as a part-time job and Hiromi Sato soon found about her talent, and invited her to talk about joining the newly founded S Inc. Before joining S Inc, she didn't really know she could sing rock, and would follow a J-pop/R&B path instead, but S Inc helped managing her anisinger career.

## **2009**

She opened her Ameblo blog on Feb 28th. At that time, she also had a now unactive website under the S-inc domain. During this year, she released two singles. 'mind as Judgment', on July 22nd and 'I sing by my soul' on November 11th. As for notable events, she participated in Lantis Matsuri, Ga-rei Zero THE LIVE and Animelo Summer Live RE: BRIDGE, where her duet of 'Tamashii no Refrain' with Masami Okui got pretty famous. She also participated of a unit called 'Anisong All Stars', where they sang John Lennon's 'Imagine'.

## **2010**

Faylan released the singles 'Errand', 'SERIOUS-AGE', her first album, 'Polaris', and then the singles 'Last vision for last' and 'Honnou no DOUBT.' She participated in Animelo Summer Live evolution ~for beloved one~ and this time she sang the theme song too. She also had her first tour, LIVE TOUR 01, promoting her debut album. It even made to a DVD released in 2011. She also participated in Anisama Girls Live, that not only had a live in two locations, but also some episodes that aired on niconico. A book with a DVD was also released, that featured the two songs they recorded for the show, Nettaiya Girls (Natsuko Aso, Asami Imai, Masami Okui, Minami Kuribayashi, Hiromi Sato, Asami Shimoda, Ryoko Shintani, Suara, Stephanie, Aiko Nakano, Faylan, Aki Misato), theme song for Girls Friday Night, performed by Faylan, Masami Okui and Asami Shimoda on Anisama 2010 and G.F.N. (Masami Okui, Faylan, Asami Shimoda), theme song for Okutama, and a special movie. Footage of the digest of the live, CM, and some of the episodes can be found here. She also performed on LISANI DAY STAGE, here is the pamphlet, and on ANIMAX MUSIX SPRING. Faylan opened a Twitter account on September of that year.

## 2011

Alongside the singer ELISA, she held a tour in Hong Kong. Participated in her last Anisama to date, Animelo Summer Live Rainbow, and ANIMAX MUSIX 2011. She released her first music video, of 'Shuumatsu no Fractal', as well as the single of the same name. Later, the DVD of her first live tour, the single 'Rasen, Arui wa Seinaru Yokubou' and its PV, the single 'Tomoshibi' and its PV, the second album 'ALIVE', and the single 'Blood teller' and its PV. She also toured solo for the second time with the HAPPY SOUL DANCE TOUR, featured on the limited edition of her second album. She also participated in Anisama in Shanghai.

## **2012**

Faylan released a new song for Mirai Nikki, 'Dead END' (with a PV) and the single also featured another B-side, 'Soukyuu no Hikari'. She participated of Mirai Nikki The Live World, where she performed 'Blood teller', 'Dead END', 'Happy End' and 'RED love' (the two latter being featured on her third album). Later, she released 'WHITE justice' and 'Realization', both singles featuring a PV. She also released 'Witch's Garden' with Hiromi Sato, president of S-Inc and veteran singer. A new version of 'mind as Judgment' was released on Lantis tribute album 'Heart of Magic Garden'. She also participated on SUPER GAMESONG LIVE NEW GAME, and on TYPE-MOON Fes., as a solo artist and as part of the unit LR Harmony (Faylan, Sayaka Sasaki, Miyuki Hashimoto, Aki Misato, yozuca\* and rino), that sang the opening for Carnival Phantasm, Super☆Affection. She also toured the third time, promoting her second album.

## **2013**

She released the single 'God FATE', the third album 'PRISM', and then the singles 'wonder fang' and 'BLUE BLAZE' (with a PV). Faylan also participated on ANIMAX MUSIX that year.

## 2014

Faylan participated in Lantis Matsuri again, for the company's 15th year. She also sang the theme song with other artists, 'Starting STYLE!'. She released a cover album, 'FAYvorite', and the singles 'Yasashisa no Tsubomi' and 'Tokyo Zero Hearts'. She held her 5th Debut Anniversary live, FAYLAND, on the same year, and participated on S Matsuri, too.

## **2015**

She released her fourth album, -Zero Hearts-, and had a tour to promote it. She also participated in S Matsuri, on Summer and Winter, alongside Hiromi Sato, Myu, Emi Nitta and Shouta Aoi. During this year, she announced she would change the writing of her name, not using the chinese characters anymore, but the writing 'Faylan'. She also participated in BLAZBLUE MUSIC LIVE and ～Anisong World Tour～ Lantis Festival 2015 in Las Vegas. Faylan participated of Rejet Presents GIRLS❤LIVE 2015『LOVE GEYSER』, promoting her song 'OH,MY GOD! in PARADISE', for the game 'Paradise O'Whisper'. Also performed an event called TNT, in Guadalajara.

## **2016-2018**

**2016:** She spent most of the year recovering from an autoimmune disease. There are no posts on her blog during this year.

**2017:** She released a few digital songs, some that were later featured on her Best Album, some that were only released in the media they were made for, like Soundtrack Albums. Performed in Aria x S Winter Matsuri, sprite LIVE and Frontwing Live 2017 FIRST FLIGHT. From this year forward, she started having yearly birthday celebrations, where she will sing a few songs and talk to fans.

**2018:** Release of 'BLUE desire/BLAZBLUE ~ Soukou-Hikari- no Mukou e~'. Participated of Anison Dream Stage and Eushully 20th Anniversary.

## **2019**

Participated in Lantis Matsuri A・R・I・G・A・T・O ANISONG, and released a best album called 'mind as ROCK!', with a PV for a song of the same name. She also had a tour to celebrate and promote the album. She also participated in KOIHIME LIVE. A digital version of 'mind as ROCK!', 'Original Edition' was also released. Faylan voiced a character for GHOST CONCERT, Queen of Hearts, and released two songs for GHOST SONG N. 12.

## **2020**

She participated in Anime Expo Santiago. Faylan also released a song for Maitetsu Last Run, 'hello! new world", and covered KOTOKO's 'INFINITE SKY'.

## **2021**

Faylan released two digital singles, 'Aim and LOCK ON!' and 'Badge & Dagger'.

## **2022**

On her birthday, she held an online live with Megu Sakuragawa, to chat with fans. It was part of S Channel Matsuri. She participated in EJ ANIME MUSIC SPECIAL MEETING and was a guest at Music Connect vol.2. She released 'Disillusion', for Touhou Lost World and 'GLITCH'. She also participated in Lose Last Concert, a Maitetsu Last Run event.

## **2023**

Faylan released '*Chuu no chinkonka* -the requiem of the cosmos-' and 'Variable Impulse', that got a PV. She held, shortly after her birthday event, a paid online talk event. Alongside Hiromi Sato, she has been participating in the weekly radio program in FM Iwate called 'Yoriko no Uta Raji', where they have been talking about various themes, including Faylan's history and how she felt during debut. It airs on Thurdays, at 13:30 in Japan time. She opened an Instagram account (@faylan\_s) on July 19th and held a live on July 22nd, to celebrate her 14th debut anniversary. Faylan also participated in 4 episodes of Hiromi Sato's Yoriko no Utaraji.

## Trivia

    From N-bibibi and Twitter. Translations of source can be found here.

* After the first day of her debut tour, -Polaris-, Faylan recieved harsh critic from her producer. She was then told to watch JAM Project lives, and she even attended to live performances, and then she learned to move her body freely, to have fun during the concert (as opposed to stay on script during MCs and doing everything perfectly). For her second tour, her producer saw her improvement and said she had finally awaken.
* Before they gave the signal for her to enter the stage on her first Anisama, Faylan cried until the last second. She was scared because it was a really big deal for someone who just had their debut a month prior to that. Faylan didn't even believe that she was chosen to sing there.
* Faylan really likes chocolate. Especially, Japanese chocolates like 'GABA', 'Takenoko no Sato' and 'Kinoko no Yama'.
* She is afraid of bugs, and considers it to be the her worst fear. During the photoshooting of 'ALIVE', she had to go to the mountains and there were a lot of bugs there, which made her cry.
* Faylan loves cilantro (coriander) a lot.
* She is a naturally shy person, and her limits were tested filming the Dead END PV, where she had to be really close to men. During highschool, she was usually with girls and didn't approach boys very much.
* Faylan's favorite type of alcohol is red wine, and she also likes korean rice wine, japanese *sake* and beer.
* She likes *onigiri* with *wakame* seaweed.
* Faylan has a sensitive stomach, so she doesn't seem to be able to enjoy heavy meat. But, she enjoys spicy food a lot.
* She says she feels pretty when she gets her make up done professionally.
* For breakfast, she prefers having bread over rice. In 2023, she has been showing on Twitter that she's facing problems with her toaster, always burning her bread, and states she wants to get a new one. On a live in July 22nd she stated she still hasn't bought a new one.
* In a 2011 interview, she said she likes to listen to K-Pop, that the melodies and lyrics are easily stuck with her.
* Faylan's favorite color is yellow, but she also likes green.
* She is good at cooking hamburgers, as seen on her Instagram.
* Faylan says she's bad at using Instagram, as she's new to it.
* As said on her 'Bento Box Saturday' Interview, if she could have a playlist with only 5 artists, they would be: 1. Christina Aguilera 2. Mariah Carey 3. MISIA 4. Mr. Children 5. JAM Project
* Faylan is a skilled calligrapher and a certified Shihan, which means she can open her own Japanese Calligraphy studio and teach others.
* She used to play the piano but gave up after three years.
* Faylan knows how to tap dance.
* Hiromi Sato (S Inc president) tells that when they would film Faylan content, it was usually under a bad weather.
* Faylan's fear of insects is so extreme, she would usually hide in the bathroom and Hiromi Sato would comfort her, until she said "I'm fine", and once, a Lantis staff had to give her a piggyback because she couldn't even walk.
* When Faylan joined S Inc the budget was low, so they didn't have much money for costumes and back dancers.
* She used to be really bad at MCs, following a script and whenever she forgot or got it wrong, she would get anxious. Nowadays she speaks freely.
* Faylan takes herself very seriously and has a lot of discipline, which is said as a compliment by Hiromi Sato, with whom she has not only a professional relationship, but more like a daughter-mother situation.
* During her high school days, approximately between years 1997 and 2000, she was into Morning Musume. In 2010 she met OG fifth generation member Ogawa Makoto.
* Also during high school, she was the vocalist of a band that played instrumentals for Hiromi Sato's "Angelica". (https://youtu.be/lWUGKMVs3po?si=4odI07VjhQE4bUJg)