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[Game&Culture] ‘The greatest anime song festival’ – The days of Lantis Festival (source)
~ Invent – News | Reporter: Moon, Yong-wang | Translated by: lffyr | Proofread by: Seiyuuri |
JAM Project, μ’s, ZAQ, nano.RIPE, OLDCODEX… What do you think when you hear those names? Yes. They are singers who work with Lantis.
On April 4th and 5th, Singers from Lantis had participated in ‘ANISONG World Tour Lantis Festival (“Lantis Festival” or “Lantis Fes” for short) at AX-KOREA, Seoul, South Korea.
I came to Lantis Festival on both 4th and 5th of April to meet Japanese anime singers in Korea. It was a really great chance to meet those singers in Korea.
■ 4th (Sat), Brilliant lineup for first day
The first day of Lantis Festival in Korea. The weather became cloudy as if the man whose nickname is Ame Otoko (a man who causes rain, lit. rain man) made this weather. The aforementioned man was the leader of JAM project, Kageyama Hironobu. He was in today’s lineup.
Many fans already came to wait and see. Especially, women appeared quite a lot because OLDCODEX was in the lineup for the first day.
At the entrance, Lantis Festival opened a small stall selling goods. This included albums, t-shirts, fans, and so on. Still, 3 hours were left right before the concert, the albums of μ’s were almost sold out – though the group was in the second day lineup.
It started to rain. The Staff arranged the waiting lines so that nobody gets soaked.
The Staff tried their best to keep the waiting line straight and right. They did well, so nothing bad happened during entering.
ZAQ warmed up the hall and Lantis fans waved the glow sticks over their heads energetically.
After a few more songs, OLDCODEX appeared on the stage.
OLDCODEX showed powerful music and vocals with a fantastic performance while they also responded to voices that came from their fans.
Female fans cheered so loudly that I thought only OLDCODEX fans came here. Their voices were full of excitement. OLDCODEX performed a total of 5 songs without any problems.
The most impressive stage was Lantis Hit Song Medley. The medley included “Hare Hare Yukai” (ED of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu) and 3 songs of μ’s. The stage was mainly performed by Hata Aki and Misato Aki. For Hata Aki, she is named “the mother of μ’s,” because she wrote all the lyrics of their songs.
The last stage of the first day, JAM Project performed. They sang all together and each member sang one solo song verse by verse. And for the final song, “SKILL” was sung. Every fan was very excited.
At the closing ceremony, artists in the first day lineup came out and told their impressions and gratitude to the fans. Closing was done with the theme song of Lantis Festival, “Starting STYLE!!” Artists and fans sung the song all together.
Together with the waiting time and standing time for the concert, fans stood for more than 7 hours. Though they felt tired, the energy from today’s festival gave enough willpower.
■ 5th (Sun), μ‘s is in front of you
The second day of Lantis Festival in Korea was an important day for some fans. In the second day lineup, there was μ’s. Because of this fact, it was hard for the fans to get tickets to the 2nd day. They didn’t compete so much for the 1st day, but they did compete so intensively for the ticket on the 2nd day. The tickets for the 2nd day completely sold out, whereas the 1st day tickets weren’t.
As a result, the entrance was filled with Love Live! Fans, they called themselves as “Love Livers.” It had rained earlier, but it had stopped, which allows them to line up outside, compared to the first day.
Compared to the 1st day, a lot of male fans came (almost 90% of total participants). It seemed that male fans of Love Live! took the bigger pie in Korea.
yozuca*’s performance was very heartwarming.
She sang the song “Aitaiyo” with AiRI. Fans started to wave glowing stick with the pink color, which is the symbol color of D.C. ~ Da Capo ~. yozuca* was deeply touched and some teardrops were shed.
yozuca* sang the closing verse in Korean instead of original lyrics verse. That also moved her fans. The stage was full of great harmony between the artist and the fans…
nano.RIPE was on the lineup of 2nd day and sang 5 songs for the fans. She has many fans in Korea. Her last track of today’s concert “Hana no Iro” which was sung by her together with her fans.
The climax of 1st day of Lantis Festival was made by OLDCODEX. But, in the contrast of 1st day, 2nd day was made by μ’s.
Many Love Live! fans came to the 2nd day. As soon as μ’s started to perform, the hall was filled with their enthusiasm.
Even though 4 out of 9 members of μ’s could not participate in today’s performance, 5 members DID their best. Fans waved the glow sticks powerfully, as thankfulness to μ’s. The orange light is the symbol color during the “Snow Halation” performance, which has to be switched from another color. Very short time was given to change the color of the lights. However, fans did it very well and it made a beautiful scenery.
The last track was “No Brand Girls” and μ’s successfully finished their very first live concert in Korea and their very first live outside of Japan.
The last stage was also performed by JAM Project.
JAM Project “necromanced” the almost tired fans with their song of power “GONG.” They led the climax and gave them energy again.
JAM Project performed a different setlist compared to the first day.
Closing their stage with the song “SKILL,” the artists had their chances to say their impressions. They were very impressed of the energetic reactions from the Korean fans and thanked them. They hoped to see them again soon.
Singing “Starting STYLE!!” like 1st day… It concluded the Lantis Festival 2015 in Seoul, Korea.
I, the reporter, participated in both days and felt a bit tired. However, my spirit was filled up with energy from the concert and I still am excited.
Lantis Festival 2015 in Seoul, Korea is a precious experience to everyone. Japan is close to Korea and Koreans may visit Japan for a concert held in Japan. But, holding a Japanese anime song concert in Korea means more than a concert, to Koreans.
Like short “Spoke-in-Korean” thankful speeches and live songs that fans in Japan have often heard many times but not often for someone outside of Japan, artists from Lantis did their best to leave a great impression to their Korean fans.
In Japan’s concert manner, there is a ‘call’ which means shouting some words with rhythm in currently performed song. Meanwhile Korea has a manner named “te-chang” (singing all together with fans.) Because of Lantis Festival 2015 in Seoul, Korea, the artists seemed to have experienced both cultures, or mixed culture. I guess they would be impressed.
There’s no special genre named “Anisong” though, “Anisong” now takes a great share of pie in the music charts. There are some animations whose main theme are “songs.” For example, “Macross Frontier.” Recently, J-anime idols are famous: Idolm@ster, Love Live! and so on. The songs makes the animation complete.
We have memories of singing anime songs, now, anime songs are not just for children but everyone.
The number of fans of anisong is increasing.
Lantis Festival 2015 in Seoul, Korea quenched thirst for anisong fans.
I deeply thank “Lantis” and the Seoul Regional Director “Amuse Korea.” I hope to be in the next year’s live concert again.
(Pictures provided by Amuse Korea)
Thank you for reading! I’d like to thank again, lffyr for translating this article for all of us. If you find any other articles regarding Lantis Matsur in Seoul, don’t hesitate to drop us a line! You know how wherever µ’s is the yuri goes with them… or *seiyuuri goes with them or something.
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