Maharajan -- Sailor Muntaro（セーラ☆ムン太郎）

 

I haven't gotten to know the singer-songwriter Maharajan（マハラージャン）all that long or well especially considering that my first article on the Tokyo-born fellow was only posted a few months ago in January. My impression though is that he's got quite a bit of that Weird Al Yankovic sort of humour in his music videos while putting out dynamic melodies.

Weird Al was more than happy to emulate folks like Madonna and Michael Jackson so his genre tastes were all over the place but it seems like Maharajan has enjoyed either rock or R&B. Come to think of it, I can also pick up on some Ginger Root in the execution as well.

I found his 3rd EP (his first with a major label), "Sailor Muntaro", an obvious riff on the iconic "Sailor Moon", which was released in March 2021. Once again as the zany music video will display, the title track's disco funk sense is paired with a tongue-in-cheek look at the superhero and tokusatsu genres. The heroes and villains may be verbally challenging and physically intimidating each other, but our calm heroine simply is above and beyond such pettiness. Sailor Moon would lose her dumpling hair balls at how capable this not-damsel-in-distress is.

For your information from the music video's information underneath, the young lady is bodybuilder Misaki Sakurai（櫻井美沙季）. There are some online photos of her posing but otherwise, there isn't a whole lot of additional information about her.