Yôko Takahashi

Japanese singer from Tokyo, best known for performing "A Cruel Angel's Thesis", the opening theme song of the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion. She also performs the closing theme, an "acid bossa" version of "Fly Me to the Moon" and "Tamashii no Rufuran", the closing theme of Evangelion: Death and Rebirth. She also performed "Metamorphose," the opening theme to studio Gainax's 20th anniversary series, This Ugly Yet Beautiful World, the ending theme "Yoake Umarekuru Shōjo" for the anime Shakugan no Shana and the opening theme "Aoki Flamme" for Pumpkin Scissors