With their appearance at Anime Expo 2025 appropriate across the nook, a concert at the Nippon Budokan in September, two compilation motion photographs releasing in October, and the closing leg of the Ladies Band Yowl Exhibition in Fukuoka and Osaka taking inform from June 27 to July 6 and from September 17 to September 30, respectively, TOGENASHI TOGEARI‘s 2nd year as a band is busy. Nevertheless, one day of their irritating time table, band individuals Rina, Yuri, and Shuri space aside some time to be in contact with Anime Data Community about their activities, tune, upcoming events, and aspirations going forward.
Creator’s display: For internal most reasons, Rina could perchance now not lend a hand the interview session. We got her comments by electronic mail.
Are you able to philosophize us what the audition course of for forming TOGENASHI TOGEARI used to be esteem?
YURI (grunt of Ladies Band Yowl‘s Momoka Kawaragi, TOGENASHI TOGEARI guitarist): Before the whole lot, we each and each posted videos of playing instruments or singing on-line as a fondness, and then we were requested to audition after our videos were considered. For the audition, we were given a TOGENASHI TOGEARI song to play, and we filmed ourselves playing it and submitted it for them to gape and receive feedback. We persevered to make stronger and work on this for about a year and a half.
Did you audition individually, or were you in a band collectively and auditioned as a neighborhood?
SHURI (grunt of Ladies Band Yowl‘ Rupa, TOGENASHI TOGEARI bassist): Each person auditioned individually.
TOGENASHI TOGEARI and Ladies Band Yowl are your first experiences with this level of expert performance. What’s it been esteem adjusting to that more or much less time table and workload over time?
RINA (grunt of Ladies Band Yowl‘s Nina Iseri, TOGENASHI TOGEARI vocals): When I started, I had appropriate graduated from junior high college, so I had never had a fragment-time job and used to be a minute bit terrified about whether or now not I will most definitely be ready to manufacture this job correctly. But since I started, there were many contemporary experiences, so I used to be ready to accumulate frail to it and procure enjoyable. I frail to fight to protect with the time table, but now, after I peek encourage, I procure it used to be straightforward, so perchance that’s proof that I’ve gotten frail to it. (laughs)
YURI: Successfully, we would been doing tune as a fondness for a prolonged time, so it used to be the foremost time all of us labored, acquired paid for our work, and had it considered by fans. First of all, we didn’t procure any ride other than our passion, so we bumped into a form of barriers. However the more we labored, the more we acquired frail to it. A host of stuff used to be additionally condensed into two years, so we felt we gradually acquired frail to it. There are amassed many areas where now we procure to develop, but we’re working laborious on it.
What did you hearken to while rising into expert musicians?
SHURI: It is about our performance abilities. Before the whole lot, each and each of us had been active for my fragment on-line, so we were frail to playing along with backing tracks on our accept as true with. But when we started performing as a band, we stumbled on that once we tried to play collectively, our sound didn’t in actuality blueprint collectively at the start. But I procure over the course of two years, now we procure gradually started to sound more esteem a band.
What are your a form of approaches to grunt performing and performing reside reveals for every and each of you?
RINA: The character I painting, Nina Iseri, is now not the youngest, but she feels esteem a youngest sibling, so I’m acutely aware about defending the tone of my grunt colorful when performing. By singing, similar to recordings and concerts, I fabricate now not pay mighty attention to that and order as Rina. But there are parts where I reference the concerts [in the anime] and mimic the gestures.
YURI: When I play the role of Momoka Kawaragi in the anime, one day of dubbing, I in actuality tried to change into Momoka in preference to be myself, and I tried to repeat on Momoka’s existence and procure what she could perchance very correctly be thinking and feeling in my performance. When I fabricate a concert, I in actuality procure the a similar costumes and instruments as Momoka, but after I procure, I’d like folk to gape Yuri. And even supposing I play as Yuri, after I order and procure, for instance, “VOID” as a solo, it be as if I’m Momoka. I switch roles reckoning on the song.
SHURI: The character I play, Rupa, is a mysterious lady who would now not showcase her emotions, has a minute bit of a wall between her and other folk, and repeatedly speaks in honorifics, so I fabricate now not repeatedly know what she’s thinking. But as the story stepped forward, you commence to gape that she in actuality enjoyed herself when she used to be having enjoyable, and felt with out a doubt sad when things were sad, and despite the indisputable reality that there weren’t many scenes where she confirmed exasperate, she had a form of passion hidden inside of her.
It must be subtle environment apart yourself from Rupa.
YURI: For the duration of dubbing, Shuri tries to change into Rupa and never showcase too mighty emotion. But one day of concerts, it be the replacement.
SHURI: I’m esteem Yuri in that I put aside myself on the market, appropriate as I’m. But after I recreate the anime, I put aside a form of Rupa into myself, esteem the actions.
What are your approved songs? Which of them fabricate you wish amass basically the most?
RINA: “Emptiness and Catharsis.” It is a song I luxuriate in listening to and performing reside, partly on story of Nina wrote the lyrics in the anime, but additionally for the reason that sound is so frigid and the fans accumulate so enraged when the song starts at a concert.
My approved lyrics are the foremost fragment of the song, [translation] “No matter how mighty I accumulate/I can not meet up with you.” It is a preferrred starting up to this song about the emptiness of now not being ready to meet up with one’s aspirations and beliefs, and it in actuality leaves a thorn in my coronary heart.
YURI: My approved song is “Lonely fate to be destined.” I’ve loved the lyrics of this song ever since I first heard it, and I’ve talked about it with other outlets, but it with out a doubt’s been my approved since I first checked out it. At the moment, my approved song to play and procure is “melt into the dark.” It has a in actuality hasty BPM, but it with out a doubt’s additionally very refreshing and hasty-paced, and it feels immense to play reside. It is my approved song comely now.
SHURI: My approved song is “Voiceless Fish,” but it with out a doubt’s comely adverse. There are a form of adverse TOGENASHI TOGEARI songs, but I procure right here’s doubtlessly basically the most adverse.
YURI: It is esteem, [translation] “Shut up!” or [translation] “Earn out of my intention!”
SHURI: It is a in actuality dark song with lyrics esteem [translation] “Someone please tell me quickly what the reason is to live” and [translation] “In the end, I really wanted to be happy like someone else.” But in the anime, every person performs and performs this song with immense smiles on their faces, so I in actuality esteem that gap. I additionally in actuality luxuriate in lyrics which will most definitely be so pessimistic, so I stop up listening to this song lots in my internal most time.
For performing “Answer to Extreme.” We have not performed mighty at reside reveals now not too prolonged ago, however the bass on this song in actuality involves the forefront, so it feels esteem my likelihood to showcase off, which gets me pumped and makes it a form of enjoyable to play. It is enjoyable to be ready to step forward, as each and each myself and Rupa and procure with such passion.
What is your approved lyric from “Lonely fate to be destined,” Yuri?
YURI: It starts with [translation] “I can’t see eye-to-eye anyone/I don’t know what it means to be needed by someone…/I’m a person who doesn’t need anyone…”. The lyrics are pretty adverse, as if the singer is rejecting themselves, however the melody is terribly refreshing, and I in actuality esteem the respect. So, I used to be in actuality drawn to the outlet lyrics.
How fabricate you philosophize to your characters? Is there any intention you procure playing your characters has influenced your point of view or persona, or how your accept as true with performance brought contemporary impressions to your characters?
RINA: I used to be ready to without considerations empathize with Nina one day of dubbing classes on story of we are pretty identical in many strategies, similar to coming to Tokyo from the geographical region, and our ages. I frail to procure a persona where I could perchance now not reveal what I wanted to inform and used to be without considerations swayed by others. But after meeting Nina, I feel I have been ready to produce a formidable foundation of my accept as true with.
YURI: My character, Momoka, loves tune very mighty, but she skilled a failure once, even supposing she is most efficient 20 years worn, and she or he used to be ready to stop on story of she skilled failure at a in actuality younger age. She’s lived a very a form of, mighty more difficult existence than I in actuality procure. So I learn the script and the character profile, or rather, I learn up on all her recordsdata, and on story of it be a existence I fabricate now not know, I tried to are acutely aware about it correctly and empathize along with her.
As for portraying her, I seen Momoka is terribly hooked in to tune. So, after I play songs Momoka wrote or songs with lyrics she wrote, I feel esteem I will empathize along with her. And on story of I performed Momoka in the anime, I feel as if I will reveal what I’m thinking, even supposing I didn’t write the song. So, I procure Momoka’s passion for tune impressed me.
In preference to seeing a contemporary aspect to the character by my performing, I feel esteem I used to be influenced pretty a minute bit by playing Momoka.
SHURI: I acknowledged this earlier, however the character I play, Rupa, is a in actuality mysterious lady. So, in preference to empathizing along with her at the start, I had no belief what emotion she used to be feeling when she used to be speaking. Even when she acknowledged harsh things, she repeatedly smiled, and even when she used to be sad, she saved smiling, so I didn’t know whether or now not I could perchance procure to smile or bawl one day of the grievous scenes. So I spoke with the director, Sakai-san, about Rupa, and he acknowledged, “Rupa wants to cry, but she is smiling all the time because she is suppressing her feelings.” From there, I saved in mind the feelings of desperate to bawl, defending a smile, or rather smiling on story of of now not wanting those around me to know the intention I feel. But I additionally made certain to showcase the parts where she used to be having enjoyable or being sad. I used to be a minute bit shut to tears as I tried to act as myself one day of the dubbing.
My mind-set and my persona procure modified pretty a minute bit while playing Rupa. Rupa’s a girl who values connections and revel in for folk, and I additionally frail to be and am somebody who values connections and internal most connections. But as I persevered portraying Rupa, I started to feel a stronger desire to with out a doubt peek at folk—to hearken to those around me. More or much less esteem a bassist, you understand? [Supporting from behind while taking in the whole picture] That shift in point of view used to be doubtlessly the supreme commerce for me. Correct esteem Yuri, I feel esteem I’ve modified in many strategies by this role, and perchance stumbled on a contemporary aspect of myself too. With contemporary impressions of my character, esteem Yuri, I feel esteem I in actuality procure modified.
What more or much less affect did it procure, Yuri? And Shuri, in what strategies fabricate you procure you want to perchance procure got modified?
YURI: By performance. And even supposing Momoka is now not the oldest, she’s the one who brings the band collectively. She’s esteem the leader, but she additionally has an incredibly clumsy aspect, which she reveals to the opposite individuals as the story progresses. But since I’m the oldest in the real-existence TOGENASHI TOGEARI band, I felt esteem I wanted to be extinct at the start. But as I interacted with every person one day of dubbing classes, it grew to change into more straightforward to showcase my appropriate self, esteem it used to be k if I wasn’t preferrred. I procure I’m a minute bit esteem Momoka in that respect, and playing Momoka made it more straightforward for me to particular that.
SHURI: You’d procure to construct an inform to other folk if I care about the folk around me.
YURI: You fabricate.
SHURI: Thank you. I’d like to particular my gratitude more than ever, and I feel esteem I’d like to love the folk around me a long way more.
How are your relationships with one but any other identical or a form of from the relationships between your characters?
YURI: Within the anime, even supposing they blueprint from a form of places, TOGENASHI TOGEARI meet by tune and develop collectively. We additionally blueprint from a form of places, but we met by tune, formed a band, and were setting up while making an strive a form of things for about two years. I procure that’s where we are identical.
One thing that’s a form of is that the individuals of TOGENASHI TOGEARI in the anime argue lots. They’re all in actuality commence about their emotions, so there are a form of scenes where they conflict. But in real existence, we’re all pretty quiet and have not argued but. So, I procure that’s a minute bit a form of.
RINA: As Yuri acknowledged, we met by tune…but if I were to be capable of add one thing, in the anime, Nina is esteem the youngest youngster, while in real existence, I’m in fact the youngest.
Are there any variations to your views on path or tune trend?
YURI and SHURI: No longer in actuality.
YURI: We all luxuriate in tune, and TOGENASHI TOGEARI‘s songs are incredibly subtle, so we all work laborious on them. We additionally all procure the a similar aim, or rather, one thing to work laborious at, so I procure now we were ready to protect going for this prolonged with the a similar enthusiasm.
It is seemingly you’ll perchance just procure got performed in joint reside reveals with other acts, including BanG Dream!‘s MyGO!!!!!. Are you able to focus on about what that ride used to be esteem?
RINA: Each time I procure, “The total bands put aside on a frigid reside showcase that exceeds my imagination. And even supposing I have been sharpening my abilities for 2 years and I procure I’m getting a minute bit higher, there are amassed higher fish, and the world is a immense inform…!” I’m ready to gape tactics and performances that I fabricate now not know, and learn from them in many strategies.
SHURI: We performed with MyGO!!!!! and Shie is Memoir now not too prolonged ago, and I procure looking at other bands’ performances in actuality helps us develop from a a form of point of view. We additionally had fans of BanG Dream!, She is Memoir, and Heaven Burns Crimson, and they also all had very a form of opinions from our accept as true with fans, so we made a form of contemporary discoveries.
YURI: We, TOGENASHI TOGEARI, procure our world of Ladies Band Yowl and MyGO!!!!! has its accept as true with world. So even when we performed collectively, our two bands had very a form of views, but it with out a doubt used to be a joint reside where you want to perchance perchance very correctly be allowed to enter each and each worlds. So I procure it used to be enjoyable seeing the anime and the real bands, and the fabulous production that nearly all effective a joint challenge esteem this could perchance procure. We would desire to manufacture more collaborations esteem this.
What more or much less bands would you wish amass with in the prolonged flee?
SHURI: We would luxuriate in to work with a form of a form of oldsters, now not appropriate anime bands, but rock bands as correctly.
What are your hopes for the system forward for TOGENASHI TOGEARI and Ladies Band Yowl?
RINA: I am hoping Ladies Band Yowl will proceed to be loved by some capability for a prolonged time.
YURI: We have not performed many reveals outside of the Kanto predicament in Japan but, so we would desire to head to more places. We procure additionally been to Shanghai, and we will be going to LA and Taipei quickly, so we would desire to work laborious to toddle to more places across the world so we can bring our concerts to more fans of Ladies Band Yowl outside of Japan.
What are your expectations in Los Angeles?
RINA: It will most definitely be my first time meeting fans in Los Angeles, so I’m enraged and frightened about what the concert will most definitely be esteem. But I’m certain this could perchance just additionally be a sizzling and rocking day, and I’m having a see forward to it.
SHURI: Right here’s our first time travelling someplace so a long way-off, to LA. We will most definitely be flying over the ocean for more than 10 hours. We fabricate now not know the intention our tune is being listened to or how folk gape us, so we are very outlandish about what more or much less fans they are. And we are in actuality having a see forward to seeing what our reside showcase is going to be esteem.
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The Ladies Band Yowl Exhibition appropriate carried out its Nagoya dates. What were some memorable moments with the Tokyo and Nagoya dates? What are you having a see forward to for the Osaka and Fukuoka dates?
RINA: There would possibly be a dwelling at each and each venue where folk can write their thoughts on sticky notes and stick them on the wall, and I used to be very chuffed to gape each and each the Tokyo and Nagoya venues were filled with every person’s messages. I’m enraged that the Osaka and Fukuoka venues will additionally overflow with messages from folk that blueprint to focus on over with.
YURI: We went to the Tokyo point to, and it in actuality captures the world of Ladies Band Yowl, and it be an point to that takes you by the assortment from the foremost episode. The immense character panels made us feel esteem we had entered the world of the Ladies Band Yowl. So, we were enraged and had a form of enjoyable when we seen it for the foremost time. And there were additionally reveals of our approved scenes, so I procure it be an exhibition that tons of a form of oldsters can ride.
For Osaka and Fukuoka, now we have not had many opportunities to meet fans in Osaka or Fukuoka. So, I am hoping this could perchance just additionally be an delectable exhibition for folk that in actuality luxuriate in Ladies Band Yowl.
The Ladies Band Yowl film is releasing this October. What can fans seek recordsdata from from the movie? Is there any scene you want to perchance perchance very correctly be having a see forward to seeing on the immense display masks?
RINA: I am hoping you want to perchance ride now not most efficient the concert scenes, but additionally the magnificent 3DCG all around the total film, as correctly as the realism that can most efficient be skilled in a movie show.
YURI: There would possibly be a first and 2nd fragment, but for folk that enjoyed and watched the Ladies Band Yowl anime, the movie model will most definitely be a compilation, so even could perchance procure to you want to perchance procure got already considered the movie once, this could perchance just additionally be a rare ride to gape it on the immense display masks. I am hoping it is seemingly for you to to utterly immerse yourself in the world of Ladies Band Yowl on a immense display masks.
I’m having a see forward to seeing the concert scenes. I procure Ladies Band Yowl has spectacular and practical concert scenes, so I am hoping every person will ride them with the sound grew to change into up in the theater.
SHURI: I fabricate now not gape motion photographs in theaters very customarily, so I could perchance desire to gape all kinds of tiny tiny print of red meat bowls, delicious-having a see red meat bowls. I procure the acoustics will most definitely be immense, so the concert scenes and even the day to day scenes with the background noise, or when two characters are speaking while three others are speaking individually, will most definitely be enjoyable. So, I in actuality hope folk will hearken to those things as correctly.
TOGENASHI TOGEARI is preparing for its Nippon Budokan reside concert in Tokyo. What are your emotions as you prepare for the match?
RINA: We were aiming for a Budokan concert for a prolonged time, and I procure this could perchance just additionally be a immense milestone for us. So, we desire to give it the whole lot we can on that day. I’m certain there’ll most definitely be many things that can most efficient be done at the Budokan and with this neighborhood, so I received’t let my guard down till the day of the Budokan concert and will protect bettering myself!
YURI: Since we formed, it has repeatedly been each and each the anime’s TOGENASHI TOGEARI and our dream to amass at the Budokan, and I procure it’s attributable to our fans who were supporting us that we are ready to produce it occur inside two years. Now that we will amass on our dream stage, we would desire to organize each and each bodily and technically to give the whole lot now we procure for basically the most efficient concert with the total songs.
SHURI: It will most definitely be our first concert at the Nippon Budokan, which is the dream venue for the anime’s TOGENASHI TOGEARI, and what now we were aiming for. So, we’re in actuality having a see forward to it. We’re preparing our performances, our hearts, and our stamina, and I am hoping we would possibly give it the whole lot we can on the day of the showcase.
It is seemingly you’ll perchance be performing at the Nippon Budokan, but are there any other places you want to perchance desire to amass?
SHURI: My passion is looking at baseball. And on story of I luxuriate in baseball, I could perchance desire to amass a reside concert at the [Tokyo] Dome or a stadium, so we will protect working laborious and aim to amass at the [Tokyo] Dome.
Manufacture you want to perchance procure got any messages to your fans?
RINA: The luxuriate in of each and each and each and each one who supports Ladies Band Yowl and TOGENASHI TOGEARI is what keeps us going. Thank you for the whole lot! We hope that we can proceed to produce this excellent work thrilling along with our fans, so please proceed to enhance us!
YURI: It has been about a year since the TV anime Ladies Band Yowl carried out airing in Japan, but we amassed procure a form of activities esteem events and reside reveals, so we hope you want to perchance proceed to enhance us. Thank you.
SHURI: We’re amassed blessed with the replacement to manufacture many concerts, chase in but any other nation, protect exhibitions, procure a theatrical commence, and commence contemporary songs. We are going to protect doing our most efficient to particular our gratitude, so we would be grateful for your persevered improve.
