Akino Arai ( =居 昭 乃 , Arai Akino > , born August 21, 1959 (60 years old) ) in Tokyo, is a Japanese composer and performer.
She has participated in several projects around Japanese animation (Please Save My Earth, The Chronicles of Lodoss War, Macross Plus, etc.).
She composed, wrote, sung and partially arranged the end of the Black anime music, available on the Black Soundtrack 1 CD.