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in Japan hosted by

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. Animelo Summer Live has been held every summer since 2005.

Description

Animelo performers are

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that specialize in singing

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theme songs; however, they also both present and perform new original and

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songs as well. The performers are not necessarily under the same record label. Animelo has a different theme song for each year, which is sung by all performers in the end of the concert. More general artists who have performed anime songs have also performed, including

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. Due to various copyrights and contracts, some performances belonging to certain record labels have sometimes not been included on the video distributed on DVDs and Blu-Rays. This factored into the lack of a video release for 2005. Because all music is played live, performs often appear with their band or dancers. Performers who do not have a band appear with a selected "Anisama band." Starting with Anisama Girl's Night in 2010, there have been many spinoff Animelo events. The sponsors of the event have been

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History

Main event

Spinoff events

Performers

''Note: Personal names are in order by last name first except in cases of band names.''

Media

CD

Each CD contains a theme song that was used for that given year.

DVD/Blu-Ray

;Animelo Summer Live 2006 -OUTRIDE- I (DVD) :Label: King Records :Release date: December 21, 2006 ;Animelo Summer Live 2006 -OUTRIDE- II (DVD) :Label:

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:Release date: December 21, 2006 ※Hare Hare Yukai performance is not included in both DVD ;Animelo Summer Live 2007 -GENERATION A- (DVD) :Label: Lantis :Release date: November 28, 2007 ※Psychic Lover's Dekaranger performance is not included in DVD DVD/Blu-ray ;Animelo Summer Live 2008 -Challenge- 8.30 ;Animelo Summer Live 2008 -Challenge- 8.31 :Label: King Records :Release date: March 25, 2009 ※Some performances are not included in the release: *Strike Witches - Watashi ni Dekiru Koto / Ishida Yoko *All

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performances DVD/Blu-ray ;Animelo Summer Live 2009 RE:BRIDGE 8.22 ;Animelo Summer Live 2009 RE:BRIDGE 8.23 :Label: King Records :Release date: February 24, 2010 ※

's performances are not included in the release. DVD/Blu-ray ;Animelo Summer Live 2010 -evolution- 8.28 ;Animelo Summer Live 2010 -evolution- 8.29 :Label: King Records :Release date: April 20, 2011 DVD/Blu-ray ;Animelo Summer Live 2011 -rainbow- 8.27 ※BREAKERZ's Everlasting Luv and Isao Sasaki's performances are not included in the release ;Animelo Summer Live 2011 -rainbow- 8.28 ※Kalafina's and T.M.Revolution's performances are not included in the release :Label: King Records :Release date: March 28, 2012 DVD/Blu-ray ;Animelo Summer Live 2012 -infinity∞- 8.25 ※Eir Aoi's, Haruna Lunas's and LiSA's performances are not included in the release ;Animelo Summer Live 2012 -infinity∞- 8.26 ※Miku Hatsune's performance is not included in the release :Label: King Records :Release date: March 27, 2013 DVD/Blu-ray ;Animelo Summer Live 2013 -Flag Nine- 8.23 ;Animelo Summer Live 2013 -Flag Nine- 8.24 ;Animelo Summer Live 2013 -Flag Nine- 8.25 ※Coda's performance is not included in the release :Label: King Records :Release date: March 26, 2014

Spinoff events

Merchandise through CDs and DVD/Blu-ray were released for the two spinoff events that were held. For the first event entitled ''Anisama Girl's Night'', a CD was released on November 2, 2010. This CD (called Nettaiya Girls) contains the events theme song which

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provided the lyrics and composition for. The last spinoff event entitled ''Anisama Super Game Song Live 2012'' also included a CD along with a DVD/Blu-ray. The CD is called New Game, and was released on June 13, 2012.

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, and Shikura Chiyomaru provided the lyrics and composition. On February 27, 2013 a DVD/Blu-Ray was released through 5pb. for the event.

Notes

References

External links

"50,000 people in the world's largest two-day anime songs festival" 28 August 2011 (Japanese)
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27 & 28 August 2011 concerts review dated 30 August 2011 (Japanese)
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27 & 28 August 2011 concerts article dated 1 September 2011 (Spanish)
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27 & 28 August 2011 concerts article dated 30 August 2011 (Japanese)
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"Anime biz sings the praises of shows" Japan Times (English)
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