musicevent 1 source Oct 12
The tour finale gets a theater run instead of a disc or streaming release, which keeps the group's largest run of shows in front of paying audiences and extends a campaign that already carried its name across 13 cities.
Nijimen
musicrelease 1 source Oct 11
A lead cast member writing for his own film's theme through his own group ties the promotion and the production together in a way a licensed outside artist would not.
Cinema Today
music 1 source Oct 11
The group's Scott Pilgrim game and anime work gives it a foothold with Japanese audiences, and this Shibuya date is where that catalog meets a domestic crowd after more than a decade away.
Game Spark
musicannouncement 2 sources Oct 11
i☆Ris spent its run acting as the model for the voice-actor-idol hybrid, with the same members voicing the leads and singing the opening themes of PriPara, and it is closing that run on its own schedule rather than dissolving around a graduation or a scandal.
Anime News Network, Denfaminicogamer
music 1 source Oct 11
A major American rapper building a track around a Naruto antagonist and pulling in that character's English voice actor is a direct signal of how far anime's character IP now travels into mainstream music.
Anime News Network
musicevent 1 source Oct 10
Pairing a full live bill with the RAPSTAR 2026 final puts the audition's deciding performance in front of a paying arena crowd, and tickets go on sale before the season's broadcasts finish narrowing the field.
KAI-YOU
musicevent 1 source Oct 10
The stage greeting shows the film's promotional push leaning on the music video and its choreography as much as the sequel's own story, with the two leads trading credit publicly for a dance neither was cast to do.
Cinema Today
musicrelease 1 source Oct 10
The video closes out the DOLL GAL millna identity millna has used since 2018 and moves her back to the 'Kawaii wa Moral' question she posed in 2014, with the new physical work going on view the same day.
ASCII.jp
musicrelease 1 source Oct 10
The tool moves 8D binaural listening from a fixed library of pre-edited uploads to any track a user picks, which is what the creators say prompted the project.
ASCII.jp
musicevent 1 source Oct 10
The special revives a podcast Tohji and Icto ran from 2020 to 2021, putting a friend rather than a promotional host across from him as the announced end of his activities approaches.
KAI-YOU
musicevent 1 source Oct 10
The seventh Live Classics keeps Ito's year-end chamber arrangement series in the same venue-and-advance-lottery pattern, with the arranging and performance duties this time falling to Takao Sunamori and Miyako Matsuoka.
Nijimen
musicannouncement 1 source Oct 10
Okamoto is converting the businesspeople who funded his music and Breaking Down work into a paying community, with the top tier offering participation in his Brazil and Malaysia projects rather than only fan perks.
ASCII.jp
musicevent 1 source Oct 10
The series continues with Narita as the guest pianist, following Yuzo Koshiro's appearance in February 2024, and the announced program puts Ito's SaGa and Mana battle themes alongside Piazzolla's Libertango, a piece the source calls a staple of his concerts.
4Gamer.net
musicevent 2 sources Oct 9
Isekaijoucho returns to Yokohama for a numbered concert after building a 2026 slate around two anime theme songs and a first two-day live at Zepp Haneda, so the scale of Anima IV tests whether that momentum carries into a two-night BUNTAI run.
KAI-YOU, PANORA
musicevent 1 source Oct 9
The booking ties THE FIRST TAKE to a song whose reach grew through the Futsuu no Keionbu concert arc and the 11th-volume collaboration PV, not through a fresh single.
Anime Anime
music 1 source Oct 9
An anime opening theme landing at No. 1 on Billboard Japan's overseas-facing chart and on four separate country charts points to how much of a JoJo opening's audience now sits outside Japan during the same week the show's new stages are rolling out on Netflix.
Anime Anime
musicannouncement 1 source Oct 9
The tier structure, from a cheap group plan up to a 10,000 yen per-member VIP tier, is the revenue model for an idol group whose audience is being organized on FaveConnect rather than through a general ticketing service, with advance ticket sales routed to paying members.
ASCII.jp
musicrelease 1 source Oct 9
The band's anniversary project is running on a fixed monthly cadence with the video pinned to the same day as the single, so the second installment gives the label a concrete date to build the third around.
ASCII.jp
musicannouncement 3 sources Oct 9
The older voicebank compatibility and the upgrade pricing suggest Yamaha is treating VOCALOID7 as a transition for existing users rather than a clean break, which is why Crypton Future Media announced free VOCALOID7-compatible Hatsune Miku V6 voicebanks for existing users and a planned switch of the bundled editor to VOCALOID7 Editor.
Automaton, Denfaminicogamer
musicevent 1 source Oct 9
Ado's fan club has so far been a content channel, and routing paid tickets through the TixPlus app with face-recognition entry and an official resale window turns it into a ticketing layer, with the resale service brought in to push back on unauthorized resale.
ASCII.jp
musicevent 1 source Oct 9
NHK is pairing its Kohaku hosting with VIVANT's returning broadcast cast, and the drama's Nogi and Nokor pairing gives the New Year's show a promotional tie to the summer drama slate.
KAI-YOU
musicannouncement 1 source Oct 8
The mix is the first music release tied to the 30th anniversary, arriving ahead of the exhibition that opens in Tokyo on October 31 and Kyoto on December 4.
Denfaminicogamer
musicevent 1 source Oct 8
The competition is a route off the live streaming platform and onto broadcast television for ColorSing's L Singers, with the top two places carrying four weeks of original song MV airtime.
ASCII.jp
music 1 source Oct 8
A company reaching a music video's creator directly over how its product is depicted, and asking for an on-video safety notice, shows operators are willing to police usage as their share services spread beyond the core Tokyo market.
KAI-YOU