The Bonkurasu Brigade

shia informed me about the conference earlier this morning. Unfortunately I was about 15 minutes late for the conference that was broadcasted ‘live’ on nico. Here are some highlights that the conference touched on:

* The theme this year is “re:bridge“.
* Yui Sakakibara will perform in this year’s animelo.
* Nana Mizuki in day 2.
* JAM Project will be day 1.
* Day 1 and day 2 swapping lineup?
* Lineups are still being planned. Nothing concrete yet
* Ayane, Minori Chihara, Chihiro Yonekura, Hironobu Kageyama, Masumi Okui, a-chan from savage genius in attendance.
* Why re:bridge? “The theme of the 1st event “THE BRIDGE” means the “role as a bridge with” artists and Anime fans as well as artists’ connection. The year of 2009, Dwango will return to the starting point to appreciate the meaning of “BRIDGE”.”
* Official site up.
*Official English site up.
*Day 1: Ayane, Chiaki Ishikawa, JAM Project, Minorin, ELISA
*Day 2: Yui Sakakibara, savage genius, Hirano Aya, Nana Mizuki, Chihiro Yonekura
* Geneon Entertainment will be involved this year.
* Advanced special sales will start from tomorrow till March 15th. It only applies to people who bought Penguin Musume Limited 1st Edition DVD.
*Tickets will 8,500 yen a day. Actual sales start on the 20th of June at 10am JST.
*30 second ad up.
*”Nothing funny happened during the animelo concert” was makkun’s reply to a question posed by a member of the press in the conference.
*Blu-Ray of animelo 2008 mentioned.

Some of the following was taken from NKDS.

Minorin looks quite nice in her purple dress, while the rest weren’t exceptionally outstanding. Looks like having ELISA to join animelo was a good choice, and Makkun invited her for this year’s animelo again. Kage-nii mentioned about his JAM Project world tour last year, and he also said about “bringing animelo to overseas fans” and “performing anison overseas“. and makkun kept on lamenting on not being able to fully manage last year’s animelo due to being ill after performing on the 1st day. She was already ill that day, but it took too much after she endured and performed her segment.