YOASOBI / On Stage (Photo: Business Wire)
YOASOBI / On Stage (Photo: Business Wire)
YOASOBI / On Stage (Photo: Business Wire)
YOASOBI / On Stage (Photo: Business Wire)
Spectators (Photo: Business Wire)
Spectators (Photo: Business Wire)
TOKYO, Aug. 14, 2024–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The popular J-pop duo with legions of fans around the world are joining forces to power the world's largest projection mapping show and light up Tokyo's midsummer nights.
The artwork, which combines YOASOBI's up-tempo vocals and instrumental music with a variety of images and colors, debuted on the TOKYO Night & Light program on July 26. The night view uses the exterior of the 243-meter-tall Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building No. 1 as a screen. Three other projections created by world-renowned artists were also added to the menu that weekend.
The unit “YOASOBI” consisting of female vocalist Ikura (23) and male singer-songwriter Ayase (30) has produced a new song “Stage Standing,” which sings about the feelings of athletes competing in competitions. The song has been adopted as the theme song for NHK's sports program and was first performed at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics on “Night & Light.”
For the first screening, a large crowd gathered at Tomin Hiroba, at the base of the landmark 48-story building in Shinjuku's business and entertainment hub, to watch as animated silhouette images of runners and other athletes ran around, projected onto the walls.
The “Night & Light” project responded to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's goal of creating “new tourism resources that brighten up Tokyo's nightlife,” and has attracted 280,000 visitors in the five months since it began on February 25. The show, projected over an area measuring 127 meters in height and 110 meters in width, has been recognized by the Guinness World Records™ as the “world's largest permanent projection mapping display on an architectural structure.”
Currently, the theater screens films every 30 minutes from 7:30 pm to 9:30 pm, with consecutive 15-minute films. On weekends and holidays, it will screen films that will captivate audiences, such as the world-famous Japanese movie monster “Godzilla” and films based on traditional Japanese ukiyo-e art. For the time being, it will screen the three-and-a-half minute film “On Stage” every night.
YOASOBI, which means “night out,” has become world famous in the five years since their debut. Their song “Idol,” the theme song for the TV anime series “Oshi no Ko,” became the first Japanese song to reach number one on the Billboard Global Chart (excluding the U.S.) in June last year. They were also selected as Japan's best popular song in terms of royalty revenue for the year up to March 2024.
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