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AFA Singapore to Host Alisa Takigawa, Konomi Suzuki, KOTOKO as Musical Guests

Southeast Asian convention Anime Festival Asia announced on Thursday that it will host Alisa Takigawa, Konomi Suzuki, and KOTOKO as musical guests for its Singapore event.

Takigawa made her major debut with her single "Season," which shipped in March 2015. The title track was used as the second ending theme song for The Seven Deadly Sins television anime. Her third single, "Sayonara no Yukue," debuted last November, with the title track used as the ending theme song for the Owarimonogatari anime. Her fifth and latest single, "Iroasenai Hitomi," also served as the ending theme song for the recently concluded The Seven Deadly Sins -Signs of Holy War- television anime special.

Suzuki debuted in 2012 after winning the Animax All-Japan Anisong Grand Prix the previous year. She released her first single "Chōir Jail" in April 2012. The single's title song served as the opening theme song for the Dusk maiden of Amnesia television anime. She also performed a minor role as a waitress in the anime. She has since released 11 singles, all of which featured tracks that were used as theme songs for anime. She has performed theme songs for such anime as The Pet Girl of Sakurasou, Battle Spirits Saikyō Ginga Ultimate Zero, Freezing Vibration, Fairy Tail, No Game, No Life, Lord Marksman and Vanadis, Absolute Duo, and BBK/BRNK. The title tracks of her latest singles, "Redo" and "Love is MY RAIL," were used as theme songs for the Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World- and Ange Vierge anime, respectively.

KOTOKO debuted in 2000 as part of the I've Sound musical group. When I've Sound was tapped to for music production on the Please Teacher! television anime, she performed her first anime theme song in 2001 for that anime's opening theme song. She has since released 21 singles, and six albums, and performed theme songs for television anime series such as Hayate the Combat Butler, Destiny of the Shrine Maiden, Shakugan no Shana, Accel World, Waiting in the Summer, and Argevollen, as well as the Accel World: Infinite Burst anime film (a collaboration with the band Altima). She has also performed theme songs for the Blazblue: Calamity Trigger and Blazblue: Continuum Shift games.

AFA Singapore will take place at the Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Center on November 25-27. Previously announced musical guests include Aimer, Ami Wajima, HoneyWorks/CHICO with Honeyworks, Home Made Kazoku, JAM Project, May'n, Minori Chihara, T.M. Revolution, and Wake Up, Girls!.