It's easy to see how Mashiro Ayano's J-pop has made her hot property in the anime world. Her impassioned vocals thunder across layers of synths and distorted guitars as she pilots an electric rock sound, where palm-muted chords chug at breakneck speed and lock in with solid rhythms on charging grooves. Ayano's musical flair and dexterity—seen in the occasional extended time signatures that lend a prog-metal edge—have seen her featured on a slew of anime themes, where her voice, guitars and symphonic keys fire on blockbuster melodies that propel each track to dizzying sonic heights.