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Sony to Hold 'Anisong Fantasy Live' Concert in Hong Kong, Singapore in March

Events and marketing agency Sony Music Entertainment Japan Inc. announced last Saturday that it will hold a new music event titled Anisong Fantasy Live Vol. One 2017, It will feature Aimer, GARNiDELiA, Kalafina, Alisa Takigawa, ELISA, and Luna Haruna. The concert's Hong Kong event will take place at the Queen Elizabeth Stadium on March 10, and the Singapore event will take place at the Megabox Event Hall @ Bigbox on March 18.

Aimer debuted in 2011 as part of the Agehasprings group. They released a cover album titled Your Favorite Things in May 2011. She released her first single for Defstar Records, "Rokutousei no Yoru," in September 2011. The single's title song was featured as the ending theme song of the No. 6 television anime series. She has also performed theme songs for the Natsuyuki Rendezvous and Terror in Resonance television anime series. Additionally, the title song of her March 2013 "RE:I:AM" single was used as the ending theme for the sixth OVA episode of the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn series. She performed the opening theme song "Brave Shine" for last year's Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works anime series' second season and most recently performed the ending theme song "ninelie" for the Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress anime alongside EGOIST vocalist chelly, as well as the song "Akane Sasu" song for the Natsume Yūjin-Chō Go anime.

GARNiDELiA is comprised of Mai Mizuhashi (Maria) and Yoshinori Abe (Toku). The duo first worked together on "Color," the opening theme song of the Freezing anime, although they had not yet made the Garnidelia unit name at that point. The duo formally debuted in 2014 with their single "Ambiguous," which was used as the opening theme for the Kill la Kill anime. The group has since released seven singles, two albums, and two mini-albums, and has performed theme songs for such anime as The irregular at magic high school, Gundam: Reconguista in G, and Gunslinger Stratos: The Animation. Most recently, they performed the theme song "clever" for the Qualidea Code anime, alongside ClariS.

Composer Yuki Kajiura formed the group Kalafina, originally composed of four members, including Wakana Ootaki, Keiko Kubota, Hikaru Masai, and Maya Toyoshima, though Toyoshima later left the group in 2009. Kajiura formed the group primarily to sing the theme songs for The Garden of Sinners (Kara no Kyōkai) anime film series, and the group's debut album "Seventh Heaven" in 2009 primarily contained all seven theme songs for the main seven films of the film series. Kajiura continues to compose and arrange songs for the group. Wakana and Keiko are also part of Kajiura's FictionJunction project. Since The Garden of Sinners, the group has also performed theme songs for both Fate/Zero and Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works, both of which are, like The Garden of Sinners, also based on Type-Moon works. They have also performed theme songs for the Puella Magi Madoka Magica franchise, Black Butler, Sound of the Sky, Time of Eve, Aldnoah.Zero, and The Heroic Legend of Arslan. The group has released four albums and 20 singles. The title song of their latest single, "blaze," serves as the ending theme song for The Heroic Legend of Arslan: Dust Storm Dance anime. The group will perform the theme song "Marchen" for the Kubikiri Cycle: Aoiro Savant to Zaregoto Tsukai anime based on NisiOisin's novel.

Takigawa made her major debut with her single "Season," which shipped in March 2015. The title track was used as the second ending theme song for The Seven Deadly Sins television anime. Her third single, "Sayonara no Yukue," debuted last November, with the title track used as the ending theme song for the Owarimonogatari anime. Her fifth and latest single, "Iroasenai Hitomi," also served as the ending theme song for the recently concluded The Seven Deadly Sins -Signs of Holy War- television anime special.

Elisa debuted in 2007 with "euphoric field," which was used as the opening theme song for the ef: a tale of memories anime series. She has since gone on to perform opening themes for Hayate the Combat Butler!! and The World God Only Knows, as well as ending themes for Nabari no Ou, Valvrave the Liberator, A Certain Scientific Railgun, and The irregular at magic high school. Most recently, she performed the theme song for the Expelled From Paradise anime film, and features as the ending theme song singer for the 91 Days television anime. She also performed the theme song "ex:tella" for Marvelous' Fate/Extella PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita action game.

Haruna debuted in 2011 with her single "Sora wa Takaku Kaze wa Utau," which was used as the ending theme for the Fate/Zero anime. She has since released nine singles and two albums, and has performed theme songs for such anime as Sword Art Online, Sword Art Online II, Monogatari Series Second Season, and Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend. Her new song "Ripple Effect" debuted as the ending theme song to the High School Fleet television anime series on April 9.