2017’s Anime Expo continues to entertain before it’s even started with the organizers regularly wetting the collective appetite through their Anisong World Matsuri artist lineup announcements.  Now, two popular anime idol units, Wake Up, Girls! and JUNNA and Minori Suzuki from Walküre, have been listed as ready to rock at AX 2017.

 

 

 

JUNNA and Minori Suzuki from Walküre

The latest in the Macross series, MACROSS DELTA, created another amazing music unit, Walküre. The television anime premiered in April of 2016, and since then Walküre has gone on to release two digital singles, two singles and three albums.  Debut album, Walküre Attack!, came away with ‘Animation Album of the Year’ at The Japan Gold Disk Awards 2017.  Over the course of two days in 2017 (January 28 and 29) Walküre performed a second set of solo concerts in front of 22,00 fans at Yokohama Arena.

JUNNA, the singing voice behind Mikumo Guynemer, and Minori Suzuki, voice actor for Freyja Wion, will join this year’s Anisong World Matsuri.

 

 

Wake Up, Girls!

Wake Up, Girls! is an idol group comprising voice actors from the eponymous anime set in Sendai, Miyagi. The group’s seven members were finalists of an audition jointly put together by entertainment group ‘avex’ and voice talent management company ‘81 Produce’.   Wake Up, Girls! went on to make their television and movie debut in January of 2014.  Support from the girls for areas affected by the Higashi-Nihon earthquake and tsunami was highly appreciated and in 2015 the group was presented with the Special Award at the 9th edition of the Seiyu Awards celebrating voice acting talent in anime.

A new anime series featuring the girls is set to premiere in 2017.

 

Wake Up, Girls!: Official site

Wake Up, Girls! Twitter:@wakeupgirls_PR

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