The timetable and highlights of the music special "MUSIC GIFT 2025 - A Song of Hope for You," which will be broadcast on NHK General TV from 7:30 pm on August Getsuku, have been released.
The stage performance of the Asadora drama series "Anpan" (General TV, Monday to Saturday, 8:00 AM and others) will feature a wealth of famous songs by Takashi Yanase , the creator of Anpanman, who inspired the characters, and composer Izumi Takusan. In addition to a duet by Motoki Omori , who plays Takuya Ise , and Nanoka Hara, who plays Meiko, there will also be a special stage performance featuring "Anpanman March" by Anpanman's voice actors Keiko Toda, Ryusei Nakao, and Koichi Yamadera. The corner MCs will be Mio Imada and Takumi Kitamura.
Singer LiSA will perform a special medley of "Gurenge," the opening theme for the 2019 TV anime "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Tanjiro Kamado, Unwavering Resolve Arc no Yaiba - Tanjiro Kamado's Determination Arc," and "Shine in a Cruel Night," the theme song for the film "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba: Kimetsu no Yaiba the Movie: Infinity Castle Arc Chapter 1 - Akaza Returns." A special video for "Shine in a Cruel Night" will also be released.
The MCs will be Kazunari Ninomiya, Fumi Nikaido, and announcer Kana Nakayama. The timetable and performers are as follows (titles omitted):
Part 1 (7:30 PM - 8:55 PM)
・Around 7:30 p.m.
Volunteer performers: "Ue o Muite Arukou" ▽ Ikimonogakari: "Arigato" ▽ AI: "Aldebaran" ▽ MISIA / Seimei Gakuen Elementary School Tombokko Choir: "Hanbunko"
・Around 8 p.m.
Motoki Omori and Nanoka Hara"Tokyo Boogie Woogie" ▽ Hikawa Kiyoshi "GeGeGe no Kitaro" ▽ Junretsu and Leon Niihama"It's a Nice Bath" ▽ Koichi Yamadera"Look Up at the Stars at Night" ▽ Ima Yoko, Junretsu and Leon Niihama"Season of Love" ▽ Toda Keiko, Nakao Ryusei and Koichi Yamadera"Anpanman March" ▽ All corner performers "Te no Hira wo Taiyou ni"
・Around 8:30 p.m.
Masaharu Fukuyama "Camphor Tree - Blown by the 500-Year Wind" ▽ Mrs. Green Apple"Que Sera Sera" ▽ DREAMS COME TRUE "No Matter How - Beyond That" ▽ 80 Years After the War "How Do We Pass on the Memories of the War?" (Kazunari Ninomiya Visits A-bomb Survivors in Hiroshima) ▽ Kiyoshi Hikawa "One Pencil" ▽ Masaharu Fukuyama "Rainbow - With 5000 Souls"
◇Part 2 (10:00 PM - 10:50 PM)
・Around 10 p.m.
Yuzu "Glory Bridge" ▽ LiSA "Gurenge ~ Shine on a Cruel Night" ▽ Moto Chitose "Dead Girl" ▽ DREAMS COME TRUE "From Here!"
・Around 10:30 p.m.
BE:FIRST "Sora" ▽ Kazufumi Miyazawa / Chiba Prefectural Matsudo Mutsumi High School Brass Band "I Want to Be the Wind" ▽ MISIA "Song of Hope" ▽ Mrs. Green Apple"Soranji"
