Crunchyroll Acquires North American Rights To Live performance Movie For J-Pop Star LiSA
Crunchyroll isn’t all anime. Okay, they’re 99.9% anime, however additionally they often export issues that aren’t animated. One such instance is arising: they simply introduced the acquisition of LiVE is SMiLE ALWAYS -LANDER-, the live performance movie for Japanese pop star LiSA.
In the event you don’t know who LiSA is, you solely suppose you don’t: her songs have been heard as themes on Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (“homura” from Mugen Practice and “Gurenge” from the anime collection); My Hero Academia (“Datte Atashino Hero”), Sword Artwork On-line (“Crossing Area”), and The Irregular at Magic Excessive College (“Rising Hope”). Chances are high you’re acquainted with her work with out realizing it.
LiSA launched her first album in 2011 and rose rapidly from there. She was ranked on Spotify because the #1 “Most Performed Japanese Abroad” in 2020, and her Demon Slayer single was ranked because the #1 “Most Performed Japanese Songs Abroad” that very same yr. Demon Slayer did so much to extend her Western visibility, and shortly you’ll get the possibility to see LiSA within the flesh.
The “LiVE is SMiLE ALWAYS -LANDER-” tour culminated on the Tokyo Backyard Theater on December 16. That is the live performance that was filmed and the one US audiences will see. “The live performance movie will transport followers and new audiences alike to this epic efficiency that includes the excessive power and highly effective vocals of J-pop celebrity and permit them to expertise LiSA’s most private music to this point in a brand new never-before cinematic method,” says Crunchyroll.
LiVE is SMiLE ALWAYS -LANDER- will open in theaters in the US and Canada on August 17, 2024, and play for 3 days. Examine your listings for the place it may be enjoying close to you; within the meantime, Crunchyroll has a number of different LiSA movies accessible to stream on their web site.