Anime - JROCK NEWS

Enjoy Poppin’Party’s cheerful album “Breakthrough!” today!

24 June 2020

That's right, Poppin'Party of the "BanG Dream!" franchise is releasing its second album "Breakthrough!" today, on June 24. Breakthrough! comes with cheerful and familiar title songs such as “Kizuna Music♪” a...

Argonavis spotlights dazzling rock in 1st album “Starry Line”

Mazohyst_Kyo

17 June 2020

Anime, Music Video, Releases

The titular band Argonavis of the currently airing anime “ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream!” is set to release their first album Starry Line on August 12. The main track, Starry Line, features contributions from lyric...

Free anime music streaming service “MixBox” launches this summer!

NBT

14 June 2020

Anime

The music streaming service "MixBox" led by Bandai Namco Arts is starting to take shape with its teaser website now open! They're planning to do a full-on launch this summer with the goal being to connect you 2...

Angel Beats music composer Kamachi Ai passes away

NBT

13 June 2020

Anime, News

We're sad to share that the composer and pianist of the duo ANANT-GARDE EYES, Kamachi Ai, passed away on May 30 at the age of 48. As reported by Crunchyroll, the announcement was made on June 8 through the mana...

GYROAXIA introduces violent riffs in 1st single “SCATTER”

Mazohyst_Kyo

10 June 2020

Anime, New Band, Releases

The currently airing music anime "ARGONAVIS from BanG Dream!" is receiving a tasty new opening track SCATTER from the band GYROAXIA, the second band to be introduced in the ARGONAVIS anime series. This is the f...

Leo Ieiri captivates us with a bright smile in “ANSWER” music video

NoMusicNoReason

28 April 2020

Anime, Music Video

Leo Ieiri unveils a music video for her new song ANSWER, presenting the vocalist singing bright tunes under a cloudless blue sky in a white dress. In contrast, other scenes in the video show the singer in dark ...

Sawano Hiroyuki makes us emotional with anime piano medley

NBT

15 April 2020

Anime, Entertainment, Music Video

Another treasure that popped up from the almost worldwide quarantine—due to COVID-19—is the beautiful medley played on the piano by composer Sawano Hiroyuki, responsible for soundtracks in hit anime like Gundam...

Leo Ieiri’s 1st EP includes theme song “ANSWER”, featured in anime “Major 2nd”

NoMusicNoReason

27 March 2020

Anime, New Look, Releases

Vocalist Leo Ieiri will drop her first-ever EP titled ANSWER on May 13, featuring seven songs. The title-track ANSWER is set to open for the second season of the baseball anime series, MAJOR 2nd, which is where...

RON (STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION) in charge of music for “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” spin-off

NBT

22 March 2020

Anime, Releases, Videos

As revealed in the brief announcement, RON—the mastermind behind STEREO DIVE FOUNDATION—is in charge of the upcoming music for the spin-off anime series "The Slime Diaries", based on the popular anime "That Tim...

Hello Kitty brings peace to Gundam universe through power of friendship

NBT

31 January 2020

Anime, Entertainment

The trailer of the Gundam vs Hello Kitty crossover which many people first assumed was an early April fool's joke back in 2019, has slowly become a much bigger deal than initially anticipated. The collaboration...

Report: The cozy anime and Jrock oasis at Animé LA 2020

G Andrew White

28 January 2020

Anime, Entertainment

In this series, we will be reporting our experience at Animé Los Angeles. Running between January 9–12, 2020 at the Ontario Convention Center in California, we flew out to the west coast for the 16th fan-ope...

Interview: ZAQ’s heartfelt story on how anisong changed her life

Zephyr

27 January 2020

Anime, Interview

Among the various anisong artists that performed at Anime NYC 2019 convention at the Javits Center, we were lucky enough to be graced by the presence of ZAQ, a singer with a prolific body of work in not only an...

Interview with JAM Project: What sets opening and ending theme songs apart?

Zephyr

8 January 2020

Anime, Interview

JAM Project, an anisong unit that has been a force to be reckoned with for 20 years now, held a powerful performance at this AnimeNYC 2019 in Manhattan. The unit consists of five members in Japan and a special ...

Top 25 anime opening and ending songs 2019

NBT

23 December 2019

Anime, Entertainment, Music Video

Considering how hard it is to narrow down the greatest anime songs (anisong) every year, we decided to expand this year's list from 20 to 25 instead! It's been an amazing year of anime so to our best of abiliti...