FNS Music Festival Adds Chiikawa and Puppet Sunsun to 2026 Lineup
The 2026 FNS Music Festival announced a first wave of 36 artists, with Chiikawa the Movie and Puppet Sunsun set to appear.
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Why it matters
The festival is folding a hit film's in-story songs and a social-media character act into a year-end music broadcast, which puts anime-adjacent material on the same stage as the idol and K-pop acts that carry the lineup.
Key Facts
- The 2026 FNS Music Festival announced a first wave of 36 artists.
- The first night airs Wednesday, December 2, 2026, and the second night Wednesday, December 9.
- Chiikawa the Movie performs three songs from The Secret of the Mermaid Island on the first night.
- Puppet Sunsun appears on the second night.
- Masaki Aiba hosts the 2026 FNS Music Festival.
The first night airs Wednesday, December 2, 2026, and the second night Wednesday, December 9, hosted by Masaki Aiba. Chiikawa the Movie performs three songs on night one, including "Kyou no Hi wa Sayounara" and "Usagi Rap / Usagi, Momonga, Ningyo." Snow Man, M!LK, Hey! Say! JUMP, Naniwa Danshi, BABYMONSTER, and CORTIS are also named.
The first night's Chiikawa segment draws on "Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island," which has passed 18.66 billion yen in box office revenue and 12.77 million admissions within 101 days of release, as of November 1. Three songs are scheduled from the film.
Puppet Sunsun, with roughly 4 million total social media followers, appears on the second night. On last winter's broadcast the character performed a special version of the debut song "Toteto" and ran the "Sunsun Challenge" with other artists.
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