Animelo Summer Live, abbreviated as Anisama (アニサマ), is the biggest annual anime song music festival in Japan hosted by Dwango and Nippon Cultural Broadcasting. Animelo Summer Live has been held every summer since 2005.

Description

Animelo performers are singers and voice actors that specialize in singing anime or game theme songs; however, they also both present and perform new original and tokusatsu 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 Rina Aiuchi, m.o.v.e, AAA, Shoko Nakagawa, Kenji Ohtsuki, Gackt, and Momoiro Clover Z. 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 Dwango, Nippon Cultural Broadcasting, Good Smile Company, and Bushiroad.

Main Event

Spin-Off 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

※Hare Hare Yukai performance is not included in both DVD ※Psychic Lover's Dekaranger performance is not included in DVD DVD/Blu-ray ※Some performances are not included in the release: DVD/Blu-ray ※Shoko Nakagawa's performances are not included in the release. DVD/Blu-ray DVD/Blu-ray ※BREAKERZ's Everlasting Luv and Isao Sasaki's performances are not included in the release ※Kalafina's and T.M.Revolution's performances are not included in the release DVD/Blu-ray ※Eir Aoi's, Haruna Lunas's and LiSA's performances are not included in the release ※Miku Hatsune's performance is not included in the release DVD/Blu-ray ※Coda's performance is not included in the release

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