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New Year's Kōhaku Singing Contest to Include Special Anime Songs Program
posted on by Karen Ressler
Japanese television network program that will air on December 31.
In "Anime Kōhaku," the singers will perform anime theme songs. Like the rest of the Kōhaku Uta Gassen, "Anime Kōhaku" will have a red team (female performers) and white team (male performers). Maruko, the title character in the popular long-running anime Yōkai Watch will represent the white team.
The performances will be:
- cosplay
- The original Golden Bomber (also in cosplay), Hiromi Go, and characters such as Pikachu
- TOKIO
- miwa
- Chibi Maruko-chan's first ending theme "Sakurako Ōhara
- Yōkai Watch's first opening theme "Geragerapō no Uta," performed by its original performers King Cream Soda and Yo-Kai
- The "V6 in the center
In the second half of Kōhaku Uta Gassen, singer Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans ending theme song "Orphans no Namida" live from a candle-lit Nagasaki Peace Park.
The perform the opening theme song "Sore wa Bokutachi no Kiseki" (That Is Our Miracle) at the event with newly-animated footage.
Other performances scheduled for the program include Nogizaka46 will perform for the first time.
Source: Gundam.info via Yaraon!
