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Anime Singers Yoh Kamiyama, Aya Hirano and Miyuna Will Appear At Hyper Japan Manchester in November
posted on by Andrew Osmond
The Hyper Japan festival, which will run in Manchester in November, will feature appearances from the singer Yoh Kamiyama, the singer-actress Aya Hirano and the singer Miyuna. The venue will be the Manchester Central Convention Complex (details).
The festival will feature a show by Yoh Kamiyama (pictured right), on Friday November 14 from 4.45 p.m. to 5.45 p.m. Kamiyama performed the end song for the second season of Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War, as well as the opening themes for Drifting Dragons, Horimiya and The Demon Prince of Momochi House. He also composed and performed the closing song in the current series With You, Our Love Will Make it Through.
Aya Hirano (pictured left) is due to perform a show on Saturday November 15, from 5 p.m to 6 p.m. Her anime roles including Death Note's Misa Amane, Fairy Tail's Lucy Heartfilia, Gintama's Nobume Imai, Dragon Ball Super's Dende, Jewelpet's Garnet, NANA's Reirei, One Piece's Lilith and The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya's Haruhi. Her other roles include Lumière in Kiddy Grade, Migi in Parasyte -the maxim-, Okachimachi in Akiba Maid War, Popuko in Pop Team Epic and Paiman in Gatchaman Crowds and Marie Antoinette in the 2025 film version of The Rose of Versailles.
Hirano has also performed theme songs for anime such as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, Fairy Tail, and Lucky Star (in which she voiced Konata).
Miyuna is due to perform a show on Sunday November 16 from 12.30 p.m. to 1.30 p.m. At 16 years old, Miyuna (pictured right) performed Black Clover's opening theme song "Gamushara" (Reckless) and ending theme song "Tenjō Tenge" (Heaven and Earth). Her later song, “Boku to Kimi no Lullaby”, was an ending theme for the anime Fairy Tail. She also sang "Prism," the title song for the second season of the 2019 version of Fruits Basket.
