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Singapore's Anime Festival Asia Announces Guest Lineup, Theme Song
posted on by Joseph First
Singapore's Anime Festival Asia has announced its guest lineup on Monday for this year's event, which will take place on November 11-13. Nine musical acts who have worked on anime will perform at the festival's weekend-long concert titled "I Love Anisong."
On November 11, virtual idol Hatsune Miku will perform. On November 12, LiSA (Fate/Zero, Angel Beats!), FLOW (Code Geass, Eureka Seven, Naruto), Sea☆A (Cardfight!! Vanguard), and Ichirō Mizuki (Mazinger Z, Voltus 5) are scheduled to perform. November 13 will include performances from May'n (Macross Frontier, Shangri-La), Kalafina (Black Butler, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sound of the Sky), Kanako Itou with Shikura Chiyomaru (Steins;Gate), and Milky Holmes, the group made up of the four voice actresses from the Tantei Opera Milky Holmes anime: Suzuko Mimori, Sora Tokui, Mikoi Sasaki, and Izumi Kitta.
The convention also announced Sea☆A's debut single "Dream Shooter" will be the event's official theme song. "Dream Shooter" was used as the third ending for the Cardfight!! Vanguard television anime series. The band's next single "DELI-DELI☆DELICIOUS" will be used as the ending theme for Toriko. The music video for Sea☆A's "Dream Shooter" can be viewed below.
Special guests at the event include producer Gou Nakanishi (Fafner, Heroic Age, Negima!?), cosplayer KANAME☆, and blogger-turned-anime producer Danny Choo.
The festival will also feature the Singapore premiere of Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn episode 4, which will be shown on the same day as the episode is released in Japan.
[Via AFA's Twitter]
