Anisama 2023 Report】RO-KYU-BU reunited on the day of the Japan National Basketball Team game! The final day of the event opened with a divine set! Let's look back on the first half of Animelo Summer Live 2023 -AXEL-DAY3!

The annual summer event "Animelo Summer Live" (Anisama) is here again this year! The world's largest anime song live event "Animelo Summer Live 2023 -AXEL-" (Anisama 2023) was held over three days on August 25 (Fri.), 26 (Sat.), and 27 (Sun.), 2023.

Akiba Research Institute will report on the three days of the event. This time, we will report the first half of DAY3 on August 27th, the last day of the event.

⇒ In this report, we'll take alook at the first half of DAY3 on August 27th, the last day of Animelo Summer Live 2023! Animelo Summer Live 2023 -AXEL-DAY1 1st half
⇒[Anisama 2023 Repo] "Are you ready to put your all into Anisama?" Roselia, performing for the third time, climaxes the event! Animelo Summer Live 2023 -AXEL-DAY1 2nd half
⇒[Anisama 2023 Repo] From the tension to the mature look, the first half of the second day was filled with excitement by ......TrySail! Animelo Summer Live 2023 -AXEL-DAY2 1st half
⇒[ Anisama 2023 Repo] TM NETWORK made a surprise appearance! We look back at the second half of Animelo Summer Live 2023 -AXEL-DAY2, where the legendary anime song "Get Wild" echoed through the arena!

The third day of Anisama 2023 brought a surprise from the start: RO-KYU-BU!, who had thrilled the audience with their performance at Anisama 2012, returned for the first time in 10 years since the unit's solo live performance. First up was "RO-KYU-BU! OP theme "SHOOT!", Kana Hanazawa (playing Tomoka Minato), Yoko Hikasa (playing Saki Nagatsuka), Rina Hidaka (playing Airi Kashii), Yui Ogura (playing Hinata Hakamada) and Hiroka Iguchi (playing Maho Misawa) connected their solo parts. Seeing them, I felt that they were the strongest members of the group without any need for revision, and since the Japanese national team for the "FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023" was to be played that night, I thought it was a perfect revival in terms of timing.

Their dance moves were perfectly in sync with each other, indicating that they had prepared well for this day. Although their singing voice was the same, it had been 10 years since their last performance. I felt that Hanazawa's first words after the song were "Do you know me? Twelve years ago, the teenage audience was a generation that had never actually seen RO-KYU-BU! However, the excitement in this venue!　I felt it was proof that ani-songs have been loved for a long time, transcending the times.

Then, "Let's go to everyone! (ED of the anime "Row Kyuubu! SS") on a trolley. SS" (the ED of the anime "Row Kyuubu! SS"). The song circled around the venue, delighting the audience.

Yuu Serizawa appeared in a pure white dress and said "Please like me." Then she performed "I like you even on the worst day." (ED of the anime "Isekai Maou to Sumo Shoujo no Slave Majutsu"). i☆Ris has performed on stage at Anisama many times to excite the audience, but this was her first solo performance! The song includes the lyrics "I can't give up the chance I finally got," and perhaps that was how she felt on this stage as well.

Her performance as a solo idol is the cutest and she sings the best, and I think this live showcased that to the audience. The audience cheered so loudly for her that there were a few tears in my eyes, but it was a wonderful stage performance.

After greeting the audience with "Nice to meet you, I'm Yuu Serizawa," he said he had one thing he wanted to do and asked the audience to call and respond to him. When she sang "I wake up in the morning and I love you," the audience responded with a loud "Oremo" call. After enjoying this with her earpiece removed, she showed a quick change from white to red dress.

The live performance was gorgeous and full of tension with the addition of MOTSU's strong power and personality, but she also showed a completely different sexy charm from the first song. She ended the show with a sexy charm that was completely different from the first song.

DIALOGUE+ popped up on stage two by two and performed their self-introduction song "Dialogue + Invitation! as a greeting. After watching their flawless performance, it was clear at once that the girls had gained a lot of experience and grown up. The next song, "Nyanbori de Moffie! (ED of the anime "Kawaisugi Crisis") was another stable stage performance. It is a very lively song and vocally challenging, but it was simply amazing that they could sing it with such nuance and deliver it with such a high degree of perfection.

Tomoya Tabuchi wrote the lyrics and music, and kz (livetune) arranged "Who Told You We Were Stupid" (ED of the anime "Skeleton Knight, I'm Leaving for Another World"), which showed a serious and emotional side to the song. From start to finish, they proved on stage that they are a voice-over unit that charms with their expressive singing and dancing. I was overwhelmed by the girls' performance ability.

Ms. Miki Ito started with "Shocking Blue" (OP of the anime "Armed Girl Machiavellism"), which turned the venue blue. She sang powerfully amidst a super gorgeous performance by the Anisama band with strings and a brass section. She walked from the upper part of the stage to the lower part of the stage, and I could feel her dignity from her posture and singing voice. This was his fifth solo performance at Anisama, and I felt like I was watching him evolve every time.

She continued, "I always take on new challenges at Anisama, and this time I'm going to perform a new song, which will be released in October, for the first time at Anisama! She then nervously performed "Dots and Lines," the OP theme song for the TV anime "Hoshikuzu Telepath," for the first time. Her clear and transparent voice echoed against the backdrop of beautiful anime images.

The song itself must have been a challenge for them, as they had never sung to a beat-driven pico-pico sound before, but it was impressive to see them sing with all their hearts.

Nao Higashiyama started with her latest song "door" (the second cool ED of the anime "Sugar Apple Fairy Tail"). Her gentle and warm voice opens new doors and pushes us forward. It was the first time for me to perform live!　Thank you to the Anisama band," she said, not forgetting to express her gratitude.

He then asked the audience to turn their penlights blue and white, and invited halca to join him for a performance of "Centimeter," the OP theme song for the first season of the TV anime "Kanojo, Oroshimasu" in which he plays the role of Ruka Sarashina. They jumped around together, clasped hands, looked at each other, and seemed to be having a lot of fun during the performance.

One more song. They sang "Error" together with MARiA as GARNiDELiA feat. Nao Higashiyama, the OP theme of the first season of the TV anime "BEATLESS" in which Higashiyama played the role of Leicia, Higashiyama also performed with dancers in a dance performance of unusually high perfection. Higashiyama said that she was the one who wanted to sing "Error" with GARNiDELiA, and that she had seen the music video many times. That's why she was able to dance so well alongside MARiA, who was dancing so coolly. At the end of the performance, since they were the same age, they stood on each other's shoulders and praised each other.

MARiA encouraged the audience and asked, "Will you all fly with me?　Let's go full throttle and go flying! Then they sang "Gen'ai Yugi" (OP of the anime "My Master Has No Tail") with the composer TOKU, crossing the stage. Needless to say, the song was great, but the dancers and horn section made the stage gorgeous to look and sound at the same time, and the audience was jumping up and down during the chorus, making the audience as excited as they could be.

From this point on, the Hip Hop media mix project "Paradox Live" began with a block of Hip Hop live performances by the various teams!

First, Yusuke Kobayashi (playing the role of Kahata Yatonoue) and Toshiyuki Toyonaga (playing the role of Nayuta Yatonoue) from cozmez sang "Get it" with a cool, downer voice.

Next up from BAE were Takehito Kajiwara (playing Allen Suzanino) and 96 Neko (playing Anne Faulkner)!　They united the audience by waving their hands left and right during the chorus of "G△L△XY∞. The audience was united in waving their hands left and right during the chorus of "G-L-XY-Infinity." 96 Neko's vocal prowess and Kajiwara's passionate rapping were a sight to behold.

From Paradox Live, all the members who performed that day gathered on stage and dropped a Paradox Live medley!　Takayuki Kondo (played by Yori Suiseki) and Shogo Yano (played by Reo Maruyama) appeared from the five-member chivalrous gang team, Kyohan Nudo!　The balance between Mr. Kondo's bold voice and Mr. Yano's innocent singing voice was perfect, and the stage was extremely exciting. I would like to see the five of them on stage again!

Cozmez performed "Hit em up" again. The twins performed "Hit em up" again, and showed a well-coordinated stage performance, just like a twin team. The Cat's Whiskers, a four-member team, was followed by Ryota Takeuchi (playing Naoaki Nishimon) and Junta Terashima (playing Shiki Yamiado). In "Shooting Arrows," Mr. Takeuchi's sturdy bass voice and Mr. Terashima's light voice mingled with each other. For the last song, BAE sang a major dance number. The animation of the show will start in December!　If a live performance with all the members were to be realized, something extraordinary is bound to happen.

Mie-san (CV. Shion Wakayama), a female student looking for her glasses at the center stage. Komura-kun (CV. Masahiro Ito) helps her. Then (obviously) Mr. Oishi Masayoshi appears as a mysterious man in a white robe. As the spirit of glasses who controls all the glasses in the world, he offers Mr. Mie's glasses and his crispy glasses and asks which glasses are the ones he is looking for. Still, is it my imagination that the level of Mr. Oishi's skits is getting higher and higher? ...... After Wakayama-san had firmly chosen his own glasses, he said he would give him a song, and the ED theme song "Megane Go Round" from the TV anime "My Favorite Girl Forgot Her Glasses" began.

The performance by the special unit Masayoshi ga Megane wo Forgotten Megane (Komura-kun, Mie-san and Oishi Masayoshi) was very cute with their theatrical interactions, partly because of the musical-like tone of the song. Oishi's singing in a storyteller-like position was great, and the interaction between the too-cute Wakayama-san and the timid Ito-san was also great.

Saji appeared on stage again, as he did last year!　First of all, he launched into "Touhi" (the ED of the anime "Tomodachi Game") with great vigor.

I honestly wasn't sure if everyone would accept us at last year's Anisama, but after the show, I think I may have gotten the wrong idea. But after the live performance, I may have been mistaken, but I felt like I connected with the audience and was moved. We, saji, are a band, but today, we are just trying to deliver our songs, so we don't want you to become our fans or to come to our live shows or anything like that. I just want to make friends with everyone at saji and go home! said Takumi Yoshida (Vo.&Gt.), singing their latest song "Flashback" (ED of the anime "AYAKA -Ayaka-").

SAJI is a three-piece rock band, but without keys and drums, and these two parts play a major role in this song, and the supporting members decided the piano riff in the intro and the drum solo in a very cool way. The supporting members also provided very cool piano riffs and drum solos in the introduction and the chorus, which is the heart of the song.

The stage began with a guitar solo by Mare Uchida. As the last song of the first half of the show, this was the only song that could get the audience going at full throttle! and hit her debut song "Soukou Inosense" (OP of the anime "Akuma no Riddle"). The last line she says in the middle of this song seems to represent her mindset. This song has become more and more perfect over the years, and the vocals are completely different from her early days, but I think this is a great example of how a song grows in a live performance. With the Zep tour coming right after Anisama, I felt that they were already fully prepared for it.

She sang "Wound Innocence," which she had never actually sung in full yet, although she had participated in Anisama eight times as a soloist, and she sang it in full because she had been released to sing it out loud. I have personally interviewed her many times and have often heard that she is more hungry than anyone else for a live performance in which she can speak out. That must be why she was so happy to be on this stage.

She said, "Recently, my dream came true. I have been singing (the theme song) for a long time for the "Gridman" series. Finally, I was able to perform as Hime in the movie "Gridman Universe. If you all speak up, your dreams will come true!　Let's all speak out more and more. Let's speak out and become one!　Let our hearts blossom!" and sang "youthful beatiful," the ED theme of "SSSS. This song was performed in collaboration with Oishi Masayoshi, who has sung many songs in the series. Both sang super powerfully and happily, and it was a wonderful collaboration, including their relationship in the work.

On this day, Marei Uchida was in a sticky state of acceleration. As is the theme of Anisama, she was saying, "Today's stage belongs to me! She was as if to say, "Today's stage belongs to me! She ended the show with "Loud Hailer" (the ED of the anime "Bingen no Mahoutsukai ga Sekai wo Sukeru"), which can be said to be her newest and most exciting song. (Interview and text by Tsukagoshi).

(Reporting and writing by Junichi Tsukagoshi)

Setlist of the first half of DAY 3

1 SHOOT! RO-KYU-BU! TV anime "Ro-Kyu-Bu! OP theme

2 Rolling! RO-KYU-BU! TV anime "RAWKYU-BU! SS" ED theme

3 I love you even on the worst day. Yuu Serizawa TV anime 'Isekai Maou to Sumo Shoujo no Slave Majutsu' ED theme

4 JUNGLE FIRE feat. Yuu Serizawa MOTSU TV anime "MF Ghost" OP theme

5 DIALOGUE + INVITATION! DIALOGUE＋ (Japanese only)

6 Nyanboi de Moffie! DIALOGUE＋ TV anime "KAWAISUGI CRISIS" ED theme

7 Who said we are stupid? DIALOGUE＋ TV anime "Skeleton Knight, I'm leaving for another world" ED theme

8 Shocking Blue ITO Miki TV anime "Armed Girl Machiavellism" OP theme

9 Dot to Sen Ito Miki TV anime "Hoshikuzu Telepath" OP theme (*October 2023 broadcast)

10 door Nao Higashiyama TV anime "Sugar Apple Fairy Tail" 2nd cool ED theme

11 centimeter Nao Higashiyama×halca TV anime "Kanojo, Ouboushimasu" 1st season OP theme

12 Error GARNiDELiA feat. Nao Higashiyama TV anime "BEATLESS" 1st season OP theme

13 Gen'ai Yuugi GARNiDELiA TV anime "My master has no tail" OP theme

14 Get it cozmez

15 G△L△XY∞ BAE

16 ROWDIEZ -Wanted Vibes- KAKUHANNIN

Hit em up cozmez

Shooting Arrows The Cat's Whiskers

BaNG!!!! BAE

17 Megane go round Masayoshi ga Megane wo Forgotten (Komura-kun to Mie-san to Oishi Masayoshi) TV anime "A girl I like forgot her glasses" ED theme

18 Lantern Day saji TV anime "Tomodachi Game" ED theme

19 Flashback saji TV anime "AYAKA" ED theme

20 Soukou no inocense uchida maakei TV anime "The devil's riddle" OP theme

21 youthful beautiful Mayei Uchida feat. Sayoshi Oishi TV anime "SSSS.

22 loud hailer UCHIDA Marei TV anime 'Bingen no mahoutsuji ga sekai wo tsukuru [The Magician of the Bing Sword Rules the World]' ED theme

(c)Animelo Summer Live 2023