Machico, Akane Kumada, Saki Minami, and Anna Yamaki performed with a sense of unity! Report on "Life Ring 4GO!GO!

Life is Beautiful" will start its TV anime on TOKYO MX, Suntelevi, BS11, and KBS Kyoto from October 13, 2019. A live event "Life Ring 4 GO!GO! Live Vol. 3" by the four-member unit "Life Ring 4," which serves as the main cast of the anime, was held at Roppongi Varit on August 10.

Rifle is Beautiful" is based on an original story by Salmiacki (serialized in Shueisha's "Tonari no Young Jump," "Yanjan! In the TV anime, Machico (Hikari Ogura), Akane Kumada (Sensui Shibusawa), Saki Minami (Erika Meinohama), and Anna Yamaki (Yukio Igarashi) play the members of the Chidori High School shooting club. The four members play members of the Chidori High School shooting club, and as the anime-approved idol unit "Life Ring 4," they performed the OP theme song "Let's go! and ED theme song "Yuyake Friends".
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Rifling 4 has also been appointed as a publicity ambassador by the Japan Rifle Shooting Association, and is currently working to promote their works and the sport of beam rifle shooting. The girls' "Life Ring 4 GO!

The opening of the event started with the singing of "GO! Life Ring 4". The four members appeared on stage and quickly raised the audience's spirits with their lively movements and unique singing voices. The choreography of looking through the scope of a rifle and poses of shooting through it were typical of this work, and the provocative gesture shown by Minami during the song and the emotionless solo part by Yamaki reminded the audience of the characters in the play. The performance, with its increased sense of unity as a unit, was a joy to behold.

After introducing themselves, they performed "Bright day, Stand up! The four members ran out from the back of the stage holding hands, as if the characters were walking in a friendly manner. The smiles on their faces as they looked at each other were impressive, and the atmosphere was filled with a sense of caring for one's friends.

Next, as a special event, a public recording of "Rifle Radio Beautiful," a fictional radio program by Life Ring 4, was held. The program will be posted on the official YouTube channel of Life Ring 4 at a later date, so please look forward to the details.

The first part of the program was a talk corner. During the daytime show, they talked about their characters, and during the nighttime show, they talked about recording and dance lessons. The four members talked about whether the characters they play are similar to themselves or not, as well as episodes from the recording of their songs. Videos of the recording sessions have already been uploaded to SNS and other social networking sites, so they encourage everyone to take a look at them. They also looked back on the inauguration ceremony of the publicity ambassadors and their rifle shooting experience, and happily talked about the rifle shooting competition they recently went to see.

In the planning corner, he said, "Guess the average! Shout! Grip strength challenge!" (daytime show) and "Let's make it together! Rifle radio commercial! In the grip strength challenge, each participant measured his or her grip strength while shouting out his or her favorite item, and the winner was the one who was closest to 25.5 kg, the average for first-year high school students. The winner was given the right to have the audience shout out their favorite word, and they were happy to shout out a certain word.

In the commercial creation process, the contestants read the scripts of the commercials, pretending to be a "gourmand," an "alien," and other characters written on the cards drawn from the character box. The audience often laughed at the actors' voices and their impersonations, which made their characters stand out.

The last song of the event was "GO! GO! Life Ring 4!!!!". Life Ring 4" again. This time, before singing the song, the audience was divided into three blocks for a call-and-response and choreography class, bringing the audience even closer together. The four members looked happy to see the excitement of the audience.

After the live performance, each of the four expressed their impressions of the live performance and their future aspirations. During the daytime performance, there was a scene where Ms. Kumada was moved to tears, and the members gently followed her through the scene.

During the event, it was announced that "Life Ring 4 GO! The next event will be held just before the TV anime goes on-air and will be the last performance before their major label debut, so be sure to watch out for it.

(Reporting and writing by Kenichi Chiba)