hijokaidan - zouroku no kibyou - 03 - sozo dojo

hijokaidan - zouroku no kibyou - 03 - sozo dojo

著者：SOZO TREE(著), ST(著)　個人出版　2026/10/25(日)配信

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On October 23 ONE OR EIGHT brought their high-energy music to Samsung Hall, Manila, Philippines, with the “ONE OR EIGHT Special SHOW CASE 2026 in ASIA -V8–” concert, presented by SOZO. Composed of MIZUKI, NEO, REIA, RYOTA, SOUMA, TAKERU, TSUBASA and YUGA, the Japanese global group is inspired by “ichi ka bachi ka“, which means “all or nothing”

On October 23, ONE OR EIGHT brought their high-energy music to Samsung Hall with “ONE OR EIGHT Special SHOW CASE 2026 in ASIA -V8–,” presented by SOZO. The concert took Manila by storm with its bold style, energetic performance, and growing international travel. Composed of MIZUKI, NEO, REIA, RYOTA, SOUMA, TAKERU, TSUBASA and YUGA, the eight-member group continues to make waves beyond Japan.

For three days from **27 to 29 November 2026** , Halls 401 to 406 of **Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre** become **Anime Festival Asia Singapore 2026** (AFASG26). Getting in starts at **S$19** for a Super Early Bird one-day exhibition pass, before booking fees. Those tickets have been on sale since 19 October, and several premium concert packages have already sold out. Anime Festival Asia (AFA) is the Japanese pop culture festival that Singapore company SOZO started here in 2008, and organisers count this year’s run as the 18th Singapore edition. It’s held in conjunction with SJ60, which marks 60 years of diplomatic relations between Singapore and Japan. That explains a guest list that reads like someone raided a decade of anime playlists. One thing to know upfront is that YOASOBI appears as an exhibition booth rather than on stage, though most of the other big names are performing live. ## Friday Belongs to Yuki Kajiura Composer **Yuki Kajiura** wrote the music for _Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba_ , _Puella Magi Madoka Magica_ and the _Fate_ series, so a huge chunk of the anime soundtracks fans keep on repeat carry her name. On **27 November** , she opens the weekend with _Yuki Kajiura LIVE vol.#22 ~precious pieces~ in Singapore -SPECIAL SETLIST-_ , which organisers bill as her first concert performance in Singapore. Vocalists KAORI, YURIKO KAIDA, Joelle, LINO LEIA and EMIKO join her. Friday 27 November in one page, from the Yuki Kajiura concert to the Day Stage, NEXT Stage and exhibition areas The setlist has been curated specially for Singapore and the songs haven’t been published, so setlists from her earlier vol.#22 shows in Japan aren’t a reliable preview. Demand is clear already, though: the Friday CAT 1 package that came with Kajiura’s signed badge has sold out. Earlier that day, the AFA NEXT Stage hosts the Asian premiere of _BLESS_ , an upcoming A-1 Pictures anime about two young people chasing careers in makeup artistry and modelling. Voice actress Konomi Inagaki then introduces _Devils’ Crest_ , an upcoming anime based on the work of _Sword Art Online_ creator Reki Kawahara. ## Saturday Is the Big Mixtape The **AFASG26 Music Fest** on **28 November** , powered by Crunchyroll, suits anyone who likes variety. Global J-pop icon Kyary Pamyu Pamyu shares the bill with anisong (anime theme song) vocalist May’n, rock band Aooo, KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO’s virtual singers KAF and Isekaijoucho, and Liyuu, Naomi Payton and Yuina of Liella!, the school idol group from _Love Live! Superstar!!_. The AFASG26 Music Fest line-up for 28 November, with Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, May’n, Aooo, KAF, Isekaijoucho and Liella! That’s a wider genre spread than the 2023 edition’s AFA x SACRA Music Festival with Flow and ASCA. It makes Saturday the safest pick for a friend group that can’t agree on anything! Saturday’s daytime stages lean towards internet nostalgia. **Pikotaro** , the viral sensation behind _PPAP_ and an SJ60 Friendship Supporter, returns exactly 10 years after his 2016 AFA Singapore appearance. Eurobeat producer **Dave Rodgers** , best known for _DEJA VU_ and _SPACE BOY_ (two tracks every _Initial D_ fan can hum), performs the same day. Saturday 28 November at a glance, covering the Music Fest concert plus the Day Stage, NEXT Stage and exhibition line-ups The anime slots run alongside them. _Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End_ returns with voice actors Tarusuke Shingaki and Shinichiro Miki. KADOKAWA brings _Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-_ ahead of its fourth season, with Satomi Arai, the voice of Beatrice, on stage. Liella! hold a talk session, the _Overgeared_ team offers a production peek, and NIJISANJI EN sub-unit NØVA performs. ## Sunday Is the One to Book If budget allows only one concert, make it **29 November**. The night opens with **HoneyWorks Vocal All Stars** , bringing members of CHiCO with HoneyWorks, HaKoniwalily, TAKANE NO NADESHIKO and Karen na Ivory together with the HoneyWorks live band. Organisers say the collective’s related digital content has passed three billion views. Black Clover gets its own Day Stage presentation on Sunday 29 November, celebrating the shonen series and its continuing story Then comes **AFA VOCALOID NIGHT feat. Hatsune Miku** , a tribute to the singing-synthesiser scene that turned Miku into a global star. Note that it’s billed as a producer and DJ night, led by kz (livetune), Hachioji P, TeddyLoid, jon-YAKITORY and picco. For Vocaloid fans, that’s five of the scene’s key names on one bill. Sunday’s Day Stage carries the weekend’s buzziest anime slot. Animation producer Kan Mizoguchi and voice actor Taihi Kimura (protagonist Chihiro Rokuhira) present _KAGURABACHI_ , which is scheduled to premiere in April 2027. Sunday 29 November in one page, from the concert double bill to the Day Stage, NEXT Stage and exhibition highlights _Black Clover_ takes the same stage that day, while hip-hop project _Paradox Live_ brings Gakuto Kajiwara and 96NEKO to the NEXT Stage. Kajiwara voices Asta in _Black Clover_ , so his fans can catch him twice. ## Meet & Greets Cost Extra Every Meet & Greet requires a festival ticket and is booked separately. The best deal is Crunchyroll’s free session on 28 November with _Overgeared_ voice actor Tatsumaru Tachibana and director Ayako Kono, which you claim by redeeming a ticket at the Crunchyroll booth. Get there early. Thai cosplayer Thames Malerose meets fans on 29 November, with a Q&A, signed item and group photo included Award-winning Thai cosplayer Thames Malerose meets fans on 29 November, with a Q&A, a signed item and a group photo. Liella! (28 November) and Gakuto Kajiwara (29 November) have sessions confirmed, with details coming later. ## Bring Your Manga Pages The **MOCHIKOMI Manga Review** , run with Kodansha Ltd, puts aspiring artists’ work in front of active Kodansha manga editors. For anyone drawing seriously in an HDB bedroom, that kind of professional feedback normally means a flight to Tokyo. Namie’s solo exhibition key art, one of two solo art shows in the AFA Exhibition Hall The **Creators Hub** has more than 100 independent artists and makers. Asia Creators Cross, a partnership with Japan’s niconico Chokaigi, brings illustrators AKIAKANE and U35. Australia-based illustrator Namie, known for _Arknights_ and _Fate/Grand Order_ character art, holds a solo exhibition titled _Kaleidoscope – The World of Wanderlust_. ## The Show Floor Hits Toei Animation brings a Goku inflatable that organisers say stands 7 metres tall, along with first-drop merchandise from _Dragon Ball_ , _One Piece_ and _Digimon_. Crunchyroll recreates the Crossroads café from _Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc_ , complete with Pochita appearances. KADOKAWA hosts Azuki-san the viral Siamese cat, with creator Nobeko appearing in person. Fankoi debuts exclusive Cosmic Princess Kaguya! merchandise in the AFA Exhibition Hall Merch hunters get debuts from ALIEN STAGE and Fankoi’s _Cosmic Princess Kaguya!_ line, while the Yu-Gi-Oh! Official Card Game runs a Duel Field Event. Kumamon, Kumamoto Prefecture’s official mascot, wanders the halls too. The **YOASOBI** booth previews the duo’s 20 February 2027 concert at the National Stadium, planned as the only Southeast Asian stop of the “SUPER PLANET” tour. ## How to Pick a Ticket Tickets are sold through Ticketmaster Singapore. A concert ticket covers the concert, the exhibition and the Day Stage. An exhibition ticket covers only the hall, and Exhibition + Stage adds the Day Stage. Prices exclude booking fees and climb through four phases: Super Early Bird, Early Bird, General Sales and Show Day. The limited **S$110 3-Day Exhibition + Merchandise Bundle** launched with Super Early Bird sales on 19 October. The Limited VIP and Early Bird 3-Day Concert packages are gone. If you’re only doing concerts, Sunday is the pick, since the ticket covers the Miku night and the _KAGURABACHI_ panel. 🗓️ **Date:** Friday, 27 November to Sunday, 29 November 2026 📍 **Location:** Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Halls 401 to 406 🎟️ **Tickets:** From S$19 (Super Early Bird one-day exhibition ticket, excluding booking fees) via Ticketmaster Singapore; Group Bundles S$95 for four 🔗 **Details:** Official Anime Festival Asia website and social channels Between Kajiura’s Singapore-only setlist, Pikotaro’s 10-year return and a Kodansha editor reading your pages, AFASG26 crams a Japan trip into one long weekend at Suntec. **Photos and Visuals courtesy of Anime Festival Asia.**

**ONE OR EIGHT** , the eight-member Japan-based boy group behind _Yellow Brick Road_ , the new _Black Clover_ ending theme, played their Singapore debut at **Victoria Theatre** on **Wednesday, 21 October 2026**. The SOZO Live night opened a three-city Southeast Asian run, and within 15 minutes the room was shouting back at the stage. That shouting came with a script. Shortly after the introductions, the members raised a toast and called “ _Ichi ka_ “, and the crowd fired back “ _bachika_ “. Put together, _Ichi ka bachika_ means “all or nothing”, which is a fitting motto for a group that debuted in August 2024 under the concept “BET ON YOURSELF”. NEO, TAKERU and RYOTA lead the choreography against a graffiti-style screen on ONE OR EIGHT’s first Singapore night We were in the hall. DANAMIC’s **Danish Lukawski** shot the night on photo and video, from the haze-filled opener to the final bow. _ONE OR EIGHT point to the crowd from the front of the Victoria Theatre stage under yellow-green lights_ ## Who Are ONE OR EIGHT? The line-up runs eight names deep: **MIZUKI, NEO, REIA, RYOTA, SOUMA, TAKERU, TSUBASA and YUGA**. If anime is your thing, you’ve probably heard them already, because _Yellow Brick Road_ closes out each episode of _Black Clover_ 2nd Season, which began airing in Japan on 3 October 2026. YUGA raises a hand as REIA and the rest of ONE OR EIGHT perform in front of the rear screen The group wrote the song for the anime and released it digitally on 7 October. When the _Black Clover_ production announced the song in September 2026, it was billed as the group’s first track centred on Japanese lyrics, and MIZUKI compared the group’s push from Japan to the world with its fans to Asta and his companions fighting past their limits, which is about as on-brand as an anime tie-in gets. More on the _Black Clover_ tie-in: ONE OR EIGHT Were Set to Bring Black Clover’s New Ending Theme to Victoria Theatre on 21 October. Their fans are called **1DERZ (pronounced “Wonders”)** , and that name came back on the night itself. More on SOUMA: his ONE WHO GLOWS reunion with STARGLOW’s TAIKI. ## A Seated Night at Empress Place SOZO Live billed the night as **_ONE OR EIGHT Special SHOW CASE 2026 in ASIA -V8-_**. It ran as a fully seated concert at Victoria Theatre, 9 Empress Place, with doors at 7pm and the show set for 7.30pm. YUGA, REIA and their bandmates perform beneath a red ring on the rear screen as lightsticks rise from the crowd Regular prices were **GA at S$88, VIP at S$108 and VVIP at S$138** , excluding booking fees. By the organiser’s 20 October update, only the VVIP tier was marked sold out. That top tier bought the best-view section, soundcheck access, a 1-for-all photo, a signed poster, a badge, a lanyard and priority admission, while VIP came with premium-view seating, a signed poster, a badge, a lanyard and priority admission. S$30 over VIP bought a soundcheck and a group photo. No wonder VVIP went first. Merch went on sale before doors. According to SOZO Live’s notice, T-shirts, flight-tag keyholders, signed photocards and sticker sets were offered while stocks lasted. Singapore buyers were capped at one signed photocard per member and one eight-photocard set each, and nothing could be returned or exchanged. YUGA sings with his eyes closed as a beam of blue light cuts across the Victoria Theatre stage Inside, wood-slat side walls framed a wide stage with a large rear screen. Moving lights and haze washed that stage in red, blue, yellow, green and magenta, so a theatre at Empress Place spent the evening looking like a club! The seats were full of colour in his frames: phones, green-and-white lightsticks with a few purple ones mixed in, heart-shaped boards and fan-made cut-outs. Some audience members were on their feet despite the seated layout. ONE OR EIGHT bow beneath red and yellow lights at the end of their first Singapore show ## Ichi Ka, Bachika They came out dancing, all eight at once, under red and blue light and thick haze. No slow build for a city they’d never played. Introductions came next, then the toast, and for the first time that night the room sounded like a two-way conversation. They also greeted the room as “Singapore Wonders”. ## A Shout-Off, Solos and a Blue-Lit Hush Next, the audience split into left and right halves for a shout-off. The noise then dropped into a hush before the next song began, and getting a seated theatre to duel and then fall silent within a minute or two is sharp crowd work for a debut. MIZUKI sings in a plaid shirt over white sleeves at Victoria Theatre The full group then gave way to solo and small-unit moments. With eight members, those spotlight turns are how a first-time audience learns who’s who, and Danish’s camera stayed on individual faces through this stretch. NEO sings in a beanie and green overshirt as the stage lights glow behind him Some leaned into the microphone stand, others opened up to the hall, and the lighting warmed and cooled with each change of face. SOUMA takes the microphone stand in a red top draped over a white tee and a plaid skirt SOUMA went for the stand and a red-over-white look with a plaid skirt, while TSUBASA threw his arms wide with his eyes shut. _ONE OR EIGHT dance in blue haze beneath a KONICHIWA graphic as fans film on their phones_ NEO brought a third look to the stretch, singing in a beanie and green overshirt with the stage lights glowing behind him. TSUBASA opens his arms and closes his eyes under warm stage lights, microphone in hand Around 8pm, the mood cooled into a quieter stretch of blue-lit solos, with a city skyline glowing on the rear screen. The audience went quiet with it. Phones stayed up, the screaming stopped, and fans gave the vocals room, minutes after they’d been yelling at each other across the aisle. The solo thread picked back up, member after member, until the whole group lined up across the stage together. REIA sings in a black leather jacket, his silver hair catching the light against a dark stage REIA’s turn was the moodiest in Danish’s set: silver hair, black leather, a dark stage, the opposite of the colour-washed group numbers. ## Eight Hearts for Invincible The fans’ white heart banners did the talking. One read “With 1OR8, 1DERZ are invincible”, and another read “Invincible with eight hearts, one journey and countless tomorrows”. YUGA, REIA and their bandmates hold up the white heart banners from @oneoreight__sg’s Invincible project A project like this only works if a lot of strangers do the same thing at the same second, and @oneoreight__sg pulled it off for a group playing here for the first time. Danish’s photo showed the members holding those banners up themselves. If you held one, take a bow! _The members of ONE OR EIGHT gather at the front of the stage as fans hold up their phones_ ## Loud Until the Final Bow The home stretch brought back group choreography and fan interaction. A heart sign came from the stage and fan props went up in the seats, setting up the final-song segment. Danish’s clips caught the crowd at its loudest in that finale. After the blue-lit hush, it’s proof this crowd knew when to listen and when to scream. The night ended with all eight members bowing to the crowd at around 9.19pm, close to two hours after the first haze rolled across the stage. ## Manila, Then Bangkok Singapore opened the run. The schedule then put ONE OR EIGHT at **Samsung Hall, SM Aura Premier** in Manila on Friday, 23 October, before a final stop at **Lido Hall 2, Lido Connect** in Bangkok on Sunday, 25 October. Victoria Theatre was fully seated. Singapore’s 1DERZ stood up anyway. 🗓️ **Date:** Wednesday, 21 October 2026 ⏰ **Time:** Doors 7pm, show 7.30pm 📍 **Location:** Victoria Theatre, 9 Empress Place, Singapore 🎤 **Event:** ONE OR EIGHT Special SHOW CASE 2026 in ASIA -V8-, organised by SOZO Live 🎟️ **Tickets:** GA S$88, VIP S$108, VVIP S$138 (regular prices, excluding booking fees, sold on Ticketmaster Singapore; VVIP marked sold out) 🛍️ **Merchandise:** T-shirts, flight-tag keyholders, signed photocards and sticker sets ** _Cover Photo and select visuals courtesy of avex (photography by @J.wgraphy), with additional photos by Danish Lukawski of the DANAMIC Team._**

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