LiSA’s newDemon Slayeropening song, “Akeboshi” has won the 63rd Japan Record Awards’ Song of the Year award. The ceremony will be held on December 30th and will air on TBS in Japan.
“Akeboshi” serves as the opening theme for theMugen Train Arcanime adaptationand was released as a digital single on October 18th, with a physical release featuring theMugen Train Arc’sending theme “Shirogane” set to release on November 17th. The song was downloaded 75,630 times in its first week, standing as the most downloaded digital single by a female artist this year.
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LiSA began her music career as a member of indie band Chucky, shifting over to anime music with her work on 2010’sAngel Beats!series. She would then go on to work on to do work for various other titles,most notablyMy Hero Academia, Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade WorksandSword Art Online.
In 2017, LiSA won the Newtype Anime Awards’ Best Theme Song award for “Catch the Moment” fromSword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scaleand won the award once again in 2019 for “Gurenge” fromDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. In 2020, “Gurenge” won the 34th Japan Gold Disc Award for Best 5 Songs by Download, and “Homura”fromDemon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: MugenTrainwon the 62nd Japan Record Awards’ Grand Prix category. “Gurenge” also won at the 39th JASRAC Awards in the Domestic Works category earlier this year.
The award ceremony will also award composers Makoto Kawaguchi, and the late Koichi Sugiyama and Asei Kobayashi with the Special Lifetime Achievement Award. Kawaguchi is best known for his work on the 1975 animeLaura, the Prairie Girl.
Kobayashi worked on a number of anime throughout the 60s and 70s, most notablyWolf Boy Kenand Science Ninja TeamGatchaman,whileSugiyama is best knownfor his work on theDragon Questgame franchise.
