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Space Brothers' Kasarinchu Performs at Japanese Space Center

posted on by Eric Stimson
Coincides with new album release

On May 18, the J-pop band kasarinchu performed a concert at the Tanegashima Space Center south of Kyushu. The band is associated with Space Brothers, having performed its seventh ending theme, "New World," and their concert included the song "Ato Ippo" ("One More Step"), an image song dedicated to the Space Brothers character Serika. Their concert, titled "To the ISS! One More Step," included five other songs and was performed for the International Space Station. It drew a crowd of 300 spectators.

The concert was the first sponsored by JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and the first held within a space center this millennium. Holding concerts at place like this is usually out of the question, but the plan received support from the local community, including the chamber of commerce young men's association, fishers' union, and public offices.

May 18 was also the release date of kasarinchu's new album, Kasarhythm 3. It includes "Ato Ippo," the band's singles "Happy End" and "Furusato" ("Hometown"), and "Taisetsu na Hito" ("Important People"), the theme song for the children's anime Shimajirō to Ehon no Kuni ("Shimajirō and the Storybook Land").

JAXA astronaut Sōichi Noguchi, along with others from Japan's space agency, will appear at Animazement, a North Carolinian anime convention, over Memorial Day weekend. Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide has previously voiced himself in Space Brothers — while in orbit, no less. The Space Brothers also promoted The Martian in a commercial.

Source: Anime! Anime!: Katsunori Takahashi; Images from Ongaku Natalie


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