Music Anime

The film will recompile scenes from the television anime with new scenes to tell a different story, to maximize the storytelling potential of the shorter runtime but larger medium. It will have at least one new song and enhanced battle sequences.

(Source: Anime News Network)

The fourth season of Uta no☆Prince-sama.

The six members of ST☆RISH, who have made their shocking idol debut, and Nanami Haruka, who has just begun her career as a composer, have advanced to Saotome Academy's master course. As they continue their lessons in earnest to learn how to be top idols and composers, they join Shining Agency and begin to work as entertainers. But before that, some senpai idols and strange foreign idols with a few odd habits stand before them, and they end up getting dragged into the race for a mysterious "Newcomer Award."

(Source: Crunchyroll)

Japan-based confectionery company Lotte opened a special site to celebrate the 70th anniversary since its founding in 1948. The centerpiece of the commemorative website is a new animated musical short featuring the song "Shinsekai" (New World) by the band Bump of Chicken.

The video centers on a middle school boy-meets-high school girl scenario. They are surrounded by a wide range of characters who are all "spirits" of various Lotte snacks, such as a men's singing group representing Ghana chocolate bars and, well, Koalas representing Koala March.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Official music video for B: The Beginning's ending theme song The Perfect World. Performed by Marty Friedman feat. Jean-Ken Johnny, KenKen. The music video was released on the music producer Avex's official YouTube channel and it promotes the anime's image album soundtrack going on sale March 7, 2018--only 5 days after the anime is released.

An idol's brilliance illuminates the dreams of humanity. Starlight Academy, a holy ground for celebrities in training, seeks to realize this belief. Behind its rigorous entrance requirements lie not only the top young stars in the entertainment business, but some of the best memories these students will ever have.

Or so Aoi Kiriya believes. Alongside her best friend Ichigo, Aoi decides to apply for the prestigious private school in hopes of living up to the praise of the biggest idol in the world: Mizuki Kanzaki. As they journey through the numerous laughs, friendships, and heartbreaks that await them, can the two girls light up the lives of others as Mizuki has done for them?

Whether it be chopping down Christmas trees, traversing obstacle courses, or even rock climbing, there's always a playful new adventure to be found in the world of Aikatsu!.

(Source: MAL Rewrite)

After taking the girls' band world by storm, "BanG Dream Chan" is back!?

Get ready for a huge reunion with all your favorite pop and cute band members in the fun-filled girls' band comedy!

Come on, BanG Dream Chan! We are all BanG Dream Chan!

(Source: BanG Dream! GBP Twitter account)

The Bloom Garden Party is finally here. It’s the stage where everyone will “someday, surely” bloom—the goal Kaho and the others have been chasing for a whole year. This is the first step.

The long-awaited day has finally arrived — the day when the promise they made with the graduates will come true. It was also the last day for the 103rd-year students, on the verge of graduation, could spend with their friends as students of Hasunosora.

―Even so, the girls race through their “youth” with all their might. This is the story of girls who struggled to bloom, a tale of dreams made real together.

(Source: Love Live! Hasunosora Jogakuin School Idol Club: Bloom Garden Party Site, translated)

Tatsuhiko Hirayama's love for drawing began at a young age, and his aspiration was to work in animation someday. But when the young boy is bullied for his art, Tatsuhiko swears to never draw in front of others ever again. Desperate to find something new to fill the void in his heart, he turns to music but eventually becomes jaded by his own mediocrity.

While Tatsuhiko is out drinking with his friends, his sob story earns the ire of a drunk woman, who intimidates the young man into reassessing his attitude toward life. He decides to give animation another chance and soon rediscovers his love for the medium, pushing himself to publish a short video. Tatsuhiko is stunned when the video goes viral, even more so when his favorite singer, Nico Kashiwagi, requests a collaboration on her next music video!

Excited to finally meet the artist he has admired for so long, the young man is shocked to discover that Nico is the same bar patron that gave him an earful, though she has no recollection of that drunken night. While initially hesitant of their new partnership, Tatsuhiko slowly learns that there is more to Nico's brutish passion than he realizes.

(Source: MAL Rewrite)

A CGI music video of Sangatsu no Lion set to Bump of Chicken's 'Fighter' single. The website states that the collaboration started because the mangaka Umino Chika is a fan of Bump of Chicken and the members of Bump of Chicken are fans of Sangatsu no Lion. A special edition of the manga's 10th compiled volume shipped on November 28 with this single.

(Source: Anime News Network)

Kanon Town is filled with music. Hibiki Houjou and Kanade Minamino have grown up in this town and have known each other since they were children. However, they no longer get along.

One day the fairy Hummy from the land of music, Major Land, appears before them. The evil king Mephisto of Minor Land is planning to turn the legendary Melody of Happiness into the Melody of Misfortune. To prevent this from happening, Hibiki and Kanade transform themselves into Pretty Cure.

Kanade and Hibiki have to learn to work together to collect the scattered notes of the Melody of Happiness in order to recreate the score!

(Source: AniList.co)

"GYROAXIA" is a band composed of 5 talented members that is active mainly in Sapporo. They decided to advance to Tokyo, but due to constant conflicts, they couldn't get along.

Meanwhile, rumors about their "disbanding" suddenly started to spread through the Internet. Amongst the confusion, each member went separate ways.

Whereas their vocalist Nayuta Asahi starts remembering his childhood and all the time he spent with his father Koga Iryuu, who abandoned him; and tries to find out why he can't stop making music and being part of the band..."

(Source: Argonavis Wiki)

The story follows the protagonist Hanako Yamadaki when she encounters the obscure, low-selling 11-member "C-list" idol unit Ongaku Shoujo. Their producer Ikehashi thinks the unit needs a new member. Together, Ongaku Shoujo and Hanako strive for the top of the music world.

(Source: Anime News Network)

A short anime directed by Tetsurou Araki in collaboration with music by Hiroyuki Sawano and Motohiro Hata.

Original short episodes featuring characters in super-deformed style. Bundled with Blu-ray/DVD volumes 3 to 6 of the anime.

Mini anime aired within the D4DJ variety program D4DJ Photon Maiden TV.

After the final battle against Gaito, Sara had given her life to remain with him. The sea world is now at peace, but only with six mermaid princesses.

While Caren, Noel, and Coco have returned to their kingdoms, it should be time for Lucia, Hanon, and Rina to do the same. After all, Mitsuki Tarou is leaving for Germany, and Doumoto Kaito is heading to Hawaii. Lucia is devestated, and when things couldn't get any worse, Kaito is lost at sea! Worst of all, a strange angel named Michel has appeared, wanting the mermaids to join him. But on the lighter side, Sara's spirit tells Lucia of Sara's successor, a young mermaid named Seira. The mermaids are in for another adventure!

(Source: AniList.co)

The second season of Miss Monochrome.

Miss Monochrome is back. In order to be one step near KIKUKO, the "17-years-old forever" super-idol and Miss Monochrome's role model, she plans her strategy together with Ru-chan, the robotic floor sweeper and her "family member."

(Source: Anime News Network)

The second season of B-PROJECT.

Tsubasa continues her job at the A&R department of the major recording company Gandala Music. The idol group "B-PROJECT" that she has been in charge of, now made up of four idol units instead of three: Kitakore, Thrive, MooNs, and KiLLER KiNG. Tsubasa must deals with not only the various challenges of her job but also a group of young men with different personalities.

(Source: Anime News Network)