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Singapore's Anime Festival Asia to Host Sound Horizon/Linked Horizon's Revo
posted on by Lynzee Loveridge
Singapore's Anime Festival Asia announced its guest lineup for this year's event, which will take place on December 5-7. Special guests include songwriter, composer and arranger Revo of the bands Sound Horizon and Linked Horizon. The event will be Revo's first overseas appearance.
Revo is responsible for composing Attack on Titan's hit opening song "Guren no Yumiya" and "Jiyu no Tsubasa," as well as Momoiro Clover Z's "Moon Pride" for this year's Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Crystal. AFA will screen Sound Horizon's film, The Assorted Horizons on December 4 as part of the group's 10th anniversary celebration.
13 musical acts will perform at the festival's weekend-long concert titled "I Love Anisong."
Musical guests include angela (Knights of Sidonia, K, Valvrave the Liberator), Eri Kitamura (Knights of Sidonia, Hōzuki no Reitetsu, Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!), DJ Kazu, Yui Horie (Golden Time, Dog Days, Bakemonogatari), fripSide (Black Bullet, A Certain Scientific Railgun), The IdolM@ster (Manami Numakura, Asami Imai, Yumi Hara, Ayaka Ōhashi, Azusa Tadokoro), LiSA (Sword Art Online, Fate/Zero, Angel Beats!), Nagi Yanagi (Black Bullet, Nagi no Asukara, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU), Eir Aoi (Sword Art Online, Kill la Kill, Fate/Zero), FLOW (The Seven Deadly Sins, Eureka Seven, Naruto), GARNiDELiA (Gundam: Reconguista in G, The irregular at magic high school, Kill la Kill), May'n (Macross Frontier, Accel World, Blood Lad), and Root Five (Saint Seiya Omega, Fairy Tail).
Other guests include producers Atsuhiro Iwakami, Shō Tanaka, Shinichiro Kashiwada, and Naoki Amano, directors Atsuko Ishizuka and Kotaro Tamura, voice actors Yoshitsugu Matsuoka and Ayako Kawasumi, and screenwriters Jukki Hanada and Deko Akao.