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AFA Singapore to Host aki, Yuzu Fujisaki, Iketeru Hearts, Pikotaro
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian convention Anime Festival Asia announced on Monday and Tuesday that it will host aki, Yuzu Fujisaki, Iketeru Hearts, and Pikotarō as musical guests. aki, Fujisaki, and Iketeru Hearts will perform at the event's Akiba stage.
aki is a former member of the SKE48 idol group. She first performed as an opening member for the group in July 2008 and joined the group's Team S sub-unit, where she appeared at the annual Kōhaku Song Battle in 2012 as part of the group. She graduated from SKE48 in 2014 to pursue a solo career, releasing her first single "FLASHBACK" in February 2015. She performed the theme songs for the Crane Game Girls Galaxy and Nazotokine television anime. Her "Zettaiteki Seiten Aozora" song for Crane Game Girls Galaxy also serves as the official support song for the Kagawa Five Arrows team of the Japan Pro Basketball League.
Fujisaki learned how to play piano at a young age, and eventually became a singer, dancer, and songwriter. She performed the opening theme song "Dimension sky" for the Nazotokine anime. The song is the title song of her first single, which shipped in Japan on November 9. Her three upcoming singles "Trick on eyes," "Fuzee," and "RIDE on BREEZE" will be used as background music for the Roller Coaster Dreams game.
MAGES. founded Iketeru Hearts (formerly Stand-Up! Hearts) by choosing applicants for its "Stand-Up! Project" new idol group project. The group is composed of nine members, including: Yūyu Arata, Madoka Usami, Kotone Uchida, Karin Ochi, Rie Tachibana, Nijika, Kazune Manami, Sumire Moriyama, and Yuno Yurano. The group has performed in Tokyo, and has streamed performances through the SHOWROOM-Live and CHEERZ applications. The group performs songs previously composed by MAGES. representative producer Chiyomaru Shikura (Chaos;HEAd, Steins;Gate, Robotics;Notes). Iketeru Hearts is also a trainee sister group to Afilia Saga (Hyperdimension Neptunia, Isuca, AntiMagic Academy "The 35th Test Platoon").
The group was voted #1 in the CHEERZ idol ranking application to perform at Anime Festival Asia Singapore last year.
Pikotarō is a Japanese comedian best known for his "PPAP" song. The comedian's official YouTube channel released the music video for the song on August 25, and it has been viewed 80 million times as of November 7. The song topped the Billboard Japan Hot 100 chart.
AFA Singapore will take place at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Center on November 25-27. Voice actors Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Kanae Itō, Nobuhiko Okamoto, Yōhei Azakami, Tomoyo Kurosawa, Daiki Yamashita, and Mitsuhiro Ichiki, as well as writer Gen Urobuchi and artist Sebastian Masuda, are attending as guests. Previously announced musical guests include Aimer, Alisa Takigawa, Ami Wajima, HoneyWorks/CHICO with Honeyworks, Home Made Kazoku, JAM Project, Konomi Suzuki, KOTOKO, May'n, Minori Chihara, T.M. Revolution, Wake Up, Girls!, REAL AKIBA BOYZ, Niji no Conquistador, and USAGI.
