NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen, "Anime Kohaku" featuring popular anime characters!　Contestant singers will face off in anime songs!

NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen," a national singing program, has announced a special project, "Anime Kohaku.

This is a special stage project in which popular animations of the past will come together on the stage of the "66th NHK Kohaku Uta Gassen" to be broadcast on New Year's Eve 2015. Maruko ("Chibi Maruko-chan") and Whisper ("Yokai Watch") will serve as hosts for the red and white groups, respectively, and Haruka Ayase and Yoshihiko Inohara, the overall hosts, will join them for a splendid collaborative hosting.

The competing singers will then compete in an ani-song showdown. The singers will then compete in an ani-song showdown, with popular anime characters such as "Astro Boy," "Star of the Giant," "Gegege no Kitaro," "Time Bokan Series: Yatterman," "Mobile Suit Gundam," "Fist of the North Star," "Pretty Sailor Moon," "Pokemon," "Neon Genesis Evangelion" and many more appearing on screen to enliven the ani-song showdown. The broadcast will be broadcast on NHK General and Radio No. 1. The program will be broadcast on NHK General and Radio 1 from 19:15 to 23:45 on December 31.

This year's Kohaku Uta Gassen will also feature the voice-over unit "µµµµ" from the hit anime "Love Live! The Kohaku Uta Gassen is also attracting attention as the first appearance of "μ's (Muse)," the voice-over unit created from the hit anime "Love Live!