AJ Night 2019 Mar.22 [Fri] 2019 at Zepp DiverCity (TOKYO)
AnimeJapan 2019 night fest! Another anisong club event is coming this year! Produced by AnimeJapan, popular anisong club-style event will be held. DJ play, live concerts, we will present the anisong event so the fans can enjoy from many different ways.
DJ
chefoba
DJ KAZU
DJ HACK
DJ WILDPARTY
motsu×DJ KAYA
Live Act
Surprise guest!
Maaya Uchida
Gothic×Luck
Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Kuku Gumi
halca
Erii Yamazaki
LiveRevolt
VJ
KITUNE
Yoshi
Routes
Ticket information
【Door Ticket】
Price: \7,000 (incl. tax) + 1 drink must-order
Sales date & location: Available at the door ticket counter in Zepp DiverCity (TOKYO) starting 15:00 on March 22 [Fri]
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*Purchasing the tickets in purpose of resale is strictly prohibited. *Refunding, changing status after purchasing will not be allowed, regardless of reasons including natural disaster or traffic accident. *Lost, stolen, or damaged tickets will not be reissued regardless of reasons. *AnimeJapan 2019 admission tickets will not let you enter AJ Night 2019 and the same applies vice versa.
Outline
Title
AJ Night 2019
Venue
Zepp DiverCity(TOKYO) 1-1-10 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0064
Date
March 22 [Fri] 2019, opens at 17:00, starts at 18:00
Program
DJ, VJ, live concerts, etc.
Ticket
Admission tickets now on sale!
Organizer
AnimeJapan Organization
Producer
Pony Canyon, Live Creative
*Content is subject to change without notice. *Images are from the previous event and for illustrative purposes only.
Profile
【DJ】
chefoba
Profile: At 12 years old, chefoba became invested in dance music out of pure happenstance. Later, at 15, he managed to get his hands on a turntable, giving him the opportunity to play at various clubs, exposing him to many different genres such as trance, house, and breakbeat. Currently, he’s a member of the anisong DJ group “AniLab.”, where he’s developing an “anisong DJ style” that incorporates all of the musical knowledge and senses he’s cultivated throughout his career. In addition to his activities as a DJ, he continues to have a diverse approach to music; he assists with composing music for Charisma.com and Prizmmy☆ artists to name only a few, is a DJ lecturer for voice actress Eriko Nakamura, holds “potluck” and distribution events of audience CDs, sponsors ATTRAKTOR DJ know-how study and sharing events, and more.
Below is his major performance history (including as a back DJ): 2019: LisAni! Night @Shinjuku LOFT 2018: LisAni! PARK @Shinkiba Studio Coast 2016: PriPara Christmas☆Dream Live @Maihama Amphitheater, Slide The City FES @Odaiba Symbol Promenade Park, JAM 2016 @Zepp DiverCity Tokyo 2015: DANCE NATION 10th Anniversary @Saitama Super Arena, FANJ Premium Live 2015 @Kyoto FUNJ, a-nation island @National Yoyogi Field 2nd Gymnasium, TOKYO IDOL FESTIVAL 2015 @Odaiba Blue Sea Area, NicoNico Chokaigi 2015 (Takara Tomy Arts Booth) @Makuhari Messe
DJ Kazu
Profile: His sublime skills and unique song selection rock the hearts and bodies of his whole audience. In Japan, he’s appeared at ROCK IN JAPAN FESTIVAL, ANIMAX MUSIX. etc. Overseas, he’s appeared in countless large festivals in the U.S.A., Italy, Germany, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Vietnam, China, Malaysia, and South Korea. He’s the leading J-POP DJ spreading Japanese music around the world. Beginning with the “J-Anisong Kamikyoku Matsuri” anime song mix series, he’s released 24 J-POP mix CDs boasting over 1,500,000 units sold. His latest work, “Love and Pop”, is a huge hit setting records in Japan which has already surpassed 430,000 units and is the current “Japanese Music DJ No.1”. He’s also assisted with mixes of many artists such as Shoko Nakagawa, FLOW, and Kanjani∞. He will be hosting the “Heisei AniSong Prize / DJ Kazu” booth at AnimeJapan 2019.
Profile: DJ HACK started his career as a DJ in 1990. He’s played frequently at events both inside and outside Japan and collaborated with various artists and musicians. He has a diverse resume in the music world including Tour Live support, music composition, and mix CD arrangement. In 2013, he redoubled his efforts, and began performing under the name DJ HACK. He’s currently striving to reach even greater heights as a DJ, making the most of the abundance of knowledge he’s acquired throughout his long career.
-Major DJ Performances in Recent Years- 2017: “Naomi Tamura 30th Anniversary One-Man Live”, “CHAN-GERO SONIC @Studio Coast”, “Sasebo Music FES @Sasebo City Park”, “Connect with Rica Matsumoto: Circle of Smiles @Kannai Hall”, “LisAni Park @Studio Coast”, “Kawasaki Record Day (Drums & DJ UNIT) ‘MAD Za HACK’ @Kawasaki CITTA”, “Winter Party @Differ Ariake” 2018: “AJ Night @Toyosu PIT”, “Summer Party @ageha”, “Winter Party @ageha”, “NGT48 (To the People of the World) @Nippon Budokan”, in addition to other festivals and popular club events.
DJ WILDPARTY
Profile: DJ WILDPARTY started his career at the age of 18. Since then, he’s garnered attention as an ultra-borderless DJ who has experimented with a wide variety of genres including Electro, Hip-hop, Idol Pop, AniSong, game music, Break Core, and even ballads. In March of 2012 he released his first major record “MOGRA MIX VOL. 1 mixed by DJ WILDPARTY” from EMI. After his appearance at ANIME EXPO in LA, he performed at FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL 2012 as the part of the masked unit OL Killer. He’s released several EDM-themed DJ mixes such as “VS[Versus]”, “BIGBANG NON STOP MEGA MIX”, and Dempagumi.inc “TSUTAYA Limited NON STOP MIX”. In addition to performing at Japan’s biggest EDM festivals “electrox” and “ULTRA JAPAN”, he’s distinguished himself as the ageHa resident DJ. He was also in charge of Pony Canyon’s DJ mix “ULTRA ORANGE MIX!!01 ~P’s ANISONG~ Mixed By DJ WILDPARTY”, Warner Bros. Entertainment’s “ANIME-THEME SONG SUPER MIX by DJ WILDPARTY”, and FlyingDog’s 10th Anniversary Commemorative release “NON-STOP FlyingDog MEGA MIX ‘DOG RUN!!’” He’s also made collaborations with global artists across all genres a reality. He expands the minds of his listeners, and the music scene has high expectations of him as a new Japanese culture evangelist. He will appear at the “DJ Kazu” booth.
Profile: motsu made his first debut in 1997 as m.o.v.e. After working on the TV anime “Initial D” opening song, he appeared in the world’s largest anisong festival “Animelo Summer Live” in 2007, and from there made ten consecutive performances until 2017. He was also involved in composition and songwriting for V6, Kumi Koda, AAA, as well as participating in remix albums with Every Little Thing and Ayumi Hamasaki. Being a supporter of Japan’s rap/dance music since its early days, he has been successfully performing across genres and borders in countries around the globe such as Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Peru, Taiwan, Singapore, USA, Germany, Netherland, Sweden, and others. He also launched the Anisong club event “Anime Rave” starting in 2018. Even though only a year has passed, this event has been growing and expanding at blinding speeds.
KAYA
Profile: The most influential producer in Tokyo’s dance music scene, DJ KAYA has contributed enormously to club culture nationwide, helping bring about the explosive trance movement in Japan. He’s organized numerous legendary events and helped produce countless collaboration works. He’s worked as a producer with an extensive list of big names ranging from EXILE, ELT, GReeeeN, TVXQ, AAA, and UVERWORLD to ZEN-LA-ROCK and CTS. He’s also experienced in supervising, remix, nonstop mixes, etc. and those works have ranked in the Oricon Top 10. He boasts monstrous achievements including a Japan Gold Disc award, and total sales exceeding 10,000,000.
In addition to his one-of-a-kind character and extraordinary presence, his overwhelming experience that cannot be matched and outstanding skills have been acknowledged throughout the world, earning him performances in Japan’s greatest music event “COUNTDOWN JAPAN FESTIVAL”, and some of the biggest worldwide events including “FIFA World Cup Official Event”, “China-Japan Normalization-Anniversary Event”, “Expo 2010 Shanghai China”, “Expo 2012 Yeosu Korea”, “Sonkuran Festival”, and “Tai Full Moon Party”. Having appeared in large-scale festivals in Italy, Sweden, Taiwan, Singapore, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Peru, and Chile, he continues to easily cross the boundaries of defined genres, making him a borderless artist in the true sense of the word. He’s a globetrotter, natural-born disc jockey, and God of the turntable.
【Live Act】
Maaya Uchida
Profile: Maaya Uchida made a breakthrough in 2012 by performing anime heroine roles continuously, which lead her to the 2013 Best New Actress Award in the 8th Seiyu Awards. In the following year, she made a debut as a singer by “Soushou Innocence”, the opening theme of “Akuma no Riddle”. Her solo tour in Budokan in the 2019 new year, commemorating the 5th anniversary as a singer, was a massive success. Maaya’s areas of expertise extend to various fields including the photo album published in March, as well as the official fan club event held in Tokyo and Osaka in April.
Profile: Gothic×Luck is a voice actress duo unit that made their first appearance in the TV Anime “Kemono Friends 2” with Mashiro Yagi as Greater Iophorina and Madoka Kan as Western Parotia. The two birds are also known as the “birds of paradise”, and the origin of their unit name is the motif of “paradise”. In Japanese, the word for “paradise” is “gokuraku”. Their name is a combination of “gothic (goshikku)” and and “luck (rakku)”. Put them together and you get “Gokuraku”! After achieving their artist debut with the “Kemono Friends 2” ending theme “Hoshi wo tsunagete”, their first EP, “Starry Story EP” is coming in March of 2019.
Profile: Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight Kuku Gumi is a young female stage unit born from Shoujo☆Kageki Revue Starlight, a project developed to link musicals and animation. They had their CD debut on September 20, 2017 with their first single “Prologue -Star Divine-”. The TV anime was broadcast on TBS starting in July of 2018. What’s more, in October of the same year they made a stage appearance, and in December they held their second live concert, both of which closed the curtains with enthusiastic support. Don’t take your eyes off them in 2019, because they’ll have exciting 3D and 2D-related developments bringing you a whole new kind of entertainment!
Profile: halca was born on July 7th. She earned second prize in the 1st vocaloid/anisong-specialized nationwide audition “Utakatsu! Audition”, which also turned out CHiCO (CHiCO with HoneyWorks). She made her major debut with SACRA MUSIC on May 30, 2018, when she performed the ending theme for Noitamina anime “Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku”! On February 20, 2019, she released her 3rd single, “Sentimental Crisis” which also served as the ending theme for “Kaguya-sama: Love Is War”. halca is a noteworthy anisong singer who continues to captivate more and more people with her transparent voice.
Profile: Erii Yamazaki was born on November 20th. She was a finalist in the 36th Horipro Talent Scout Caravan Voice Actor Audition. In 2013, she appeared as a voice actress in the TV anime “Samurai Flamenco”. In 2014, she formed a unit with Ibuki Kido called “every?ing!” and in 2016 she made her solo debut with her first album “Zenbu, Kimi no Sei da.” On February 27, 2019, she released the ending theme for “DATE A LIVE III”, “Last Promise”.
Major Roles: TV Anime “Frame Arms Girl” (Materia Sisters) Game “Tokyo 7th Sisters” (Makoto Tamasaka) TV Anime “Action Heroine Cheer Fruits” (Mikan Kise) TV Anime “Re-Kan!” (Makoto Ogawa) TV Anime “Samurai Flamenco” (Moe Morita)
LiveRevolt
Profile: LiveRevolt is a voice actress live artist project touting that they will “bring a revolution to live concerts.” Starting in 2017, they have appeared in a multidirectional mix of media centered around an original manga and live concerts. They are organized into four units with two members per unit, and in December of 2018 they held wild and crazy live stage performances in which they became one with their audience in Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka. The eight members are dubstar’s Kasumi Taguchi (as Akane Fujiwara), Yuri Akiba (as Kokomi Noda), RumBlue’s Haruka Michii (as Marin Seto), Mao Aoki (as Chris Shizaki), Recitalz’ Marika Gomi (as Rina Miyashiro), Yuu Ikeba (as Kana Hirai), FIREVOLT’s Marina Horiuchi (as Hinata Tokine), and Ruri Arai (as Madoka Shiraishi).
Profile: A member of the anisong DJ group “AniLab”, which is performing at “LisAni! PARK” and more, KITUNE is a VJ who has been active at a wide variety of venues: Noitamina’s 10th Anniversary Commemorative Event “Noitaminight”, AnimeJapan 2015 “Noitaminight powered by dAnimeStore”, Space Shower Sponsored Event “SPACE SHOWER SOCIUS”, “Naomi Tamura 30th Happy Anniversary!!” opening DJ time, “AJ Night - AnimeJapan”, “Sengoku Otome Fan Thank-you Festival”, “Mako Ishino X’MAS DINNER SHOW 2017”, “sprite LIVE 2015 -Byond the sky-”, “AUGUST LIVE! 2016”, “tone work’s Live Fex 2017”, and “Frontwing LIVE 2017 -First Flight”. In addition to his VJ work, he has also been a video broadcaster at “KSL Live World 2018”, “Luxury Soul Night / PULSE BEAT”, “EDP presents Hinabita Live 2018 ~Sweet Smile Pajamas Party~”, and more.
Profile: Yoshi is active as a VJ in regions throughout the country, but focusing on Kansai. His distinctive performance characteristic is aggressively riling up the dance floor with a live feel, but sometimes bewitching them with delicate images. He spans across all genres as a VJ, conducting live productions and video broadcasts. Separate from his personal work, he’s also active in a 1DJ1VJ unit “PETTER&Yoshi” with DJ PETTER.
Profile: Routes' belief lies in his VJ/DJ playing style that implements the emotion of storytelling, which comes from his visual production works. In 1999, New York, Routes founded WayWest Productions with multinational visual creators. Their work “In The Past (05)” was awarded with the Best Fantasy Film Award in New York International Independent Film and Video Festival. He works as a film director, visual creator, and theater director, regardless of format. While his directing works are aired both in Japan and overseas, he also hosts “Cinematronica Collection”, a special selection of films and digital cinemas. His career as VJ started in 2011. While playing in anime events and rock festivals such as “AnimeJapan” and “Rock In Japan Festival”, he also produces visual works for concerts, documentaries, and music videos.
About gifts and flowers for the casts
【About Gift】
Gift boxes are prepared at the venue entrance. Please use them as you cannot directly hand over your gifts to the guests. Once received, staff will deliver the items to the guests.
【About flowers (stand/basket/bouquet)】
If you are to prepare for a ceremonial flower item, please follow the rules below.
1. Delivery date Please designate the delivery date on Friday, March 22, 2019. Make sure to inform your deliverer of the date.
2. Pick-up Please inform your designated deliverer to come and pick up the item on Friday, March 22, 2019 as soon as the event is finished. The opening time for the pick-up is 22:30 on the same day. (Pick-up must take place on this day. Please be advised that we will not accept pick-up service comes in the day after)
3. Size As for the flower stand, please keep the following size: less than 180cm and the stand bottom of 40x40. No flower items and their accessories delivered to the venue can be taken back by the audience.
4. Prohibited manners No items tagged with home address and phone numbers can be placed in the venue. We strongly ask business entities to be especially careful. *Items that are not delivered during the designated time cannot be accepted. *You cannot designate the exact spot as to where we place the flower stand, including the venue’s outdoor zone.
5. Delivery address 1-1-10 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0064 Zepp DiverCity (TOKYO) AJ Night 2019 Admin Office
【About flower bouquet/arrangement】
All flower bouquets/arrangements will be considered as gift. Please bring your item to the “Present Reception”. Please be advised that you are not allowed to place them in the lobby. *The size of your flower container should be within 30cm W x 30cm D. The height should be no longer than 80cm including the container.