Otaku BEAT! 2023
Presented by A-KON x FAKE STAR
Venue: The Pavillion at Toyota Music Factory ( https://www.thepaviliontmf.com/)
In 2010, They won the second Grand Prix at “Senkou Rionette(???????),” the band audition for teens held by TOKYO FM. In March 2016, they released debut single “FLY HIGH!!”, and the title song “FLY HIGH!!” was used as the opening theme for the anime “Haikyu!! Second Season”. After the debut, their song “Hikariare(?????)” and “PHOENIX” was chosen as the opening theme for the anime “Haikyu!!” three times in a row for the first time.
Also, their 3rd single title song “Hanaichimonme(???)” was used as the ending theme for the anime “Gintama,” and their 4th single title song “Good Morning World!” was used as the opening theme for the anime “Dr.STONE.“ In 2020, they produced a virtual artist called “HXEROS SYNDROMES” only for the anime “Super HxEros,” and they wrote the opening theme featuring with Retto Enjyou (CV: Yoshitsugu Matsuoka) named “Wake Up H×ERO!”.
In March 2013, NANO 's first live concert "Remember your color." was held at Shin-Kiba Studio Coast in Tokyo, which sold out 2500 tickets within the first day of ticket sales. Since then, NANO has conducted tours within Japan, as well as solo concerts overseas, including her first overseas concerts in Taiwan and Germany in 2015. In May 2018, NANO held her first concert performance in her native America and gave an outstanding performance for a packed crowd of 2800.
NANO's original YouTube content has generated over 100,000,000 views on YouTube, and her online live concert in 2020 was viewed both within Japan and in 23 nations and regions around the world. NANO's popularity continues to grow, with a voice that knows no borders.
The TV anime "The Rising of the Shield Hero" OP theme "RISE"and "FAITH" released in 2019 was a worldwide hit. In 2022, MADKID performed the opening track "Paranoid" for the Netflix anime series "Junji Ito Maniac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre". They were also announced to perform the opening theme for the new anime series "Lv1 Maou to One Room Yuusha".
KONOMI SUZUKI won the Fifth All-Japan Anime Song Grand Prix in 2011 and debuted at the age of 15 with “CHOIR JAIL” in the following year. She has sung the theme songs to many anime TV series, including “This Game,” the opening theme to the anime series “No Game, No Life,” and “Redo,” the opening theme to the anime series “Re: ZERO - Starting Life in Another World.” In the anime TV series “LOST SONG,” which began airing in April 2018, she costarred as a voice actress with TAMURA Yukari and sang the opening theme Utaeba Soko ni Kimi ga Iru Kara (“If I Sing, You’ll Be There”). Beginning in 2016, she went on tours of Asia for four years in a row and held solo concerts in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the Philippines. She has also been featured in numerous overseas events, performing in countries such as the US, Canada, Brazil, Chile, Peru, Germany, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines, and Australia.
In 2020, she became the first anime song artist to achieve three collaborations in a single television season, releasing singles for three months in a row. In May 2022, she released her fifth full-length album “ULTRA FLASH.”
On July 1, 2022, she launched her own company and became its representative director and president. She also announced her second solo concert at Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall, which was held successfully. On October 26, 2022, she released “Love? Reason why!!,” the opening theme to the anime TV series “Love Flops.”