Anime - JROCK NEWS

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

28 April 2020

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...

sumika “Higher Ground” featured as “My Hero Academia” movie theme

edoh

20 December 2019

Anime, Music Video, New Band

sumika⁠—a four-man band from Kawasaki, Kanagawa⁠—is an indie rock band that started in 2013. Their new song, Higher Ground will be used for the animated film My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising that debuts in theat...

Lie and a Chameleon now signed to British label JPU Records

edoh

9 December 2019

Anime, Music Video, New Band

Lie and a Chameleon (嘘とカメレオン), a five-piece band from Tokyo formed in 2014 has been signed by JPU Records ahead of their first major single Mononoke in the Fiction, out on January 15, 2020. To tease their new o...

SCANDAL breaks into full sprint for “GeGeGe no Kitaro” anime with “A.M.D.K.J.”

G Andrew White

3 December 2019

Anime, Music Video, Releases

Toei Animation selects SCANDAL's A.M.D.K.J. for the ending theme to spirit-monster themed anime GeGeGe no Kitaro (ゲゲゲの鬼太郎). The upbeat tune will be in the manga series starting January 2020. Yet little is known...

Interview with Rayark’s CEO: DEEMO -Reborn- brings you closer to its reality

Zephyr

3 December 2019

Anime, Game, Interview

Many of you might be familiar with the critically acclaimed rhythm game "DEEMO" on Android, iOS, and Nintendo Switch. Last month we got the opportunity to try out the reborn version of the game on Playstation 4...

GRANRODEO’s explosive and packed-out show in Tokyo!

NBT

13 November 2019

Anime, Review

At the packed-out concert on August 24, GRANRODEO was performing on the stage at Zepp DiverCity in Tokyo, a venue with a capacity of 2500, located right next to the 20-meter tall mecha Gundam statue. Not only w...