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The Biggest Japanese Pop Culture Event in Southeast Asia

Anime Festival Asia
Jakarta - Born in 2008, Anime Festival Asia (AFA) is the largest and most followed J-pop culture event in Southeast Asia (“SEA”) covering Singapore, Indonesia & Malaysia, with 9 festivals in the past 6 years exceeding 130,000 attendees in 2013. AFA has become a household name to J-Pop Culture lovers in the SE Asian region, and is the leading and most effective content delivery platform, centring around all things Japanese Pop Culture.

AFA only held once a year in Indonesia and go on for 3 days. The latest AFA was held on Friday 18th until Sunday 20th August 2017 in JIEXPO Jakarta. To get the ticket, AFA provided it via online and on-site. There are 7 exhibitions inside the event and so many booths there.

One of the main events on AFA called “I Love Anisong” is a singing concert which is filled by artist singer from Japanese. Different from before, AFA presented a new artist singer who have never performed in Indonesia before. 

I 💗 anisong concert looks
The first singer announced was Ami Wajima, a new anisong singer who has performed the opening theme for Mayoiga, Kuromukuro, and the second ending theme for Digimon Universe: Appli Monsters. Next is Kishidakyoudan and The Akeboshirockets band that have performed the theme songs for anime such as Highschool of the Dead and GATE: Jieitai Kanochi nite Kaku Tatakaeri.

The third artist announced is Konomi Suzuki, who performed songs for some popular anime series like Fairy Tail, No Game No Life, and Re:Zero Kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu.
Artist lineup
Shiena Nishizawa, another up and coming young artist who performed the theme songs for Kantai Collection and Gakusen Toshi Asterisk, will also be performing. Tomohisa Sako (used to be known as ShounenT) who provided the songs for this season’s Natsume Yuujinchou Roku, as well as Pokemon Sun & Moon, Pokemon XY, and Pokemon XY&Z, will also be coming. Also, renowned utaite in Japan, kradness, will perform in this concert.

The last singer to be announced is Luna Haruna, a popular singer who performed theme songs for many popular shows like Fate/Zero, Monogatari Season 2, Saenai Heroine no Sodatekata, and Sword Art Online.

Hanif Aulia Ramadhan (19), a J-Pop Culture lover said, “I really like Japanese culture especially about J-Pop culture. AFA is the largest event for anime and manga lovers in Southeast Asia. Although I have not gone to AFA, I can feel that AFA is a perfect event for J-Pop Culture.”

Comments

  1. UnknownSeptember 19, 2017 at 7:16 AM

    glad you put my name on there, unfortunately I cant see Luna Haruna, well maybe next time I would.

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    1. Andrey KurniawanSeptember 20, 2017 at 8:50 PM

      Thank you for commenting my writing. I am to happy to hear that Hanif. There is Luna Haruna that I made in last two paragraph.

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  2. UnknownSeptember 19, 2017 at 7:41 AM

    It may be a cool experience if I was there, gathering with people who have same hobbies like me. Someday, I will be there with my friends and it will be a priceless experience for me.

    Btw, nice information. At least I got some information about the event, even though I was not there.

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    1. Andrey KurniawanSeptember 20, 2017 at 8:52 PM

      Thank you for commenting my writing. It's sound great if we can go together to the AFAID next year. I am happy that my writing gave you information about the event.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 19, 2017 at 11:34 AM

    Such a great information you got there, Andrey. I'm one of those J-Pop cultures lovers (not too addict tho) and I feel excited just by reading your news.
    The concert picture is so stunning, it feels like I was there and swinging my lightsticks over them.
    Keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to your next Japanese info. Teehee!

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    1. Andrey KurniawanSeptember 20, 2017 at 8:57 PM

      Thank you for commenting my writing, Sherly. Glad to hear that you excited and feel the atmosphere just by read my writing. I'll tell you everything that you want to know about Japanese info. Teehee!

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  4. UnknownSeptember 19, 2017 at 7:58 PM

    Good article, Andrey. Your coverage of Anime Festival Asia (AFA) is pretty good, but I'm afraid that you're too focused on the 'anisong' part of the festival. I think you should also covers other parts of Japanese Pop Culture like Anime, Manga, Cosplay, etc.

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    1. Andrey KurniawanSeptember 20, 2017 at 8:58 PM

      Thank you for commenting my blog, Ilhamdi. Thank for you suggestion about my writing. For the next news, I'll put everything that related to the topic.

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