LiSA's new Demon Slayer opening 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 the Mugen Train Arc anime adaptation and was released as a digital single on October 18th, with a physical release featuring the Mugen Train Arc’s ending 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.
LiSA began her music career as a member of indie band Chucky, shifting over to anime music with her work on 2010’s Angel Beats! series. She would then go on to work on to do work for various other titles, most notably My Hero Academia, Fate/Zero, Fate/stay night: Unlimited Blade Works and Sword Art Online.
In 2017, LiSA won the Newtype Anime Awards’ Best Theme Song award for "Catch the Moment" from Sword Art Online The Movie: Ordinal Scale and won the award once again in 2019 for “Gurenge” from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba. In 2020, “Gurenge” won the 34th Japan Gold Disc Award for Best 5 Songs by Download, and “Homura” from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Mugen Train won 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 anime Laura, the Prairie Girl.
Kobayashi worked on a number of anime throughout the 60s and 70s, most notably Wolf Boy Ken and Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, while Sugiyama is best known for his work on the Dragon Quest game franchise.
Source: Anime News Network