Mai Kuraki

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Mai Kuraki

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Profile
Japanese name: 倉木麻衣
Gender: Female
Date of birth: October 28, 1982
Place of birth: Funabashi, Chiba, Japan
Genres: Pop, R&B
Years active: 1999-present
Labels: GIZA Studio (1999–2007)
Northern Music (2007–present)
Website: mai-kuraki.com

Mai Kuraki (倉木麻衣 Kuraki Mai?) (born October 28, 1982) is a Japanese pop and R&B singer-songwriter, producer and composer from Funabashi, Chiba. She debuted in 1999 with the single, Love, Day After Tomorrow. In 2000, she released her debut album, Delicious Way, which debuted at number-one and sold over 2,210,000 copies in its first week. She is one of a few female artists in Japan to have their first four studio albums to debut atop of the Oricon album chart.[1]

In 2009, she saw a revival in her popularity. Her eighth studio album, Touch Me!, debuted atop the Oricon album charts; becoming her first number-one album in five years. She holds the record for being the only female artist to have all of her singles consecutively debut in the Top 10 since her debut.[2] To date, she has six number-one albums and two number-one singles.

Song themes in Detective Conan

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Song themes in The Culprit Hanzawa

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In Detective Conan

Mai Kuraki has appeared a number of times in Detective Conan and is part of its universe. She is recognized as a popular idol and singer. She is popular among high school girls and is known by Sonoko and Ran.

She made a cameo in file 293 and episode 238, during the opening of the K3 Restaurant. Her animated likeness can be seen on a billboard in the anime's opening 23, and a photo in ending 53. In episode 927-928, she appears to be in the same hotel as the four of the Teitan High School main characters (Ran, Sonoko, Sera, and Shinichi) and meets them in the hallway. She thinks they are a double couple since it is Shinichi-Ran and Sonoko-Masumi (she looks like a boy). Her manager seen in that scene isn't the real manager, since the real one is a man named Toshinori Masuda and the president of Being. Afterwards, she runs into Masumi at Kiyomizu Butai. She speaks briefly to Masumi, but decides to say nothing because she is too surprised that Masumi is a girl.

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Trivia

  • She is the current titleholder of the Guinness World Records for the most songs featured in the anime Detective Conan at a number of 26 songs as October 2023.

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