AFA Indonesia to Host GACKT

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AFA Indonesia to Host GACKT

Anime Festival Asia announced on Friday that the AFA Indonesia convention will host musician and actor Gackt. He will be a special guest in a "talk-show" segment on the AFA main stage.

Gackt debuted in 1994 as the frontman for the independent band Cains:Feel, before moving on to the band Malice Mizer. He started his solo career in 2009. He has performed theme songs for such anime as Texhnolyze ("Tsuki no Uta"), New Fist of the North Star ("Lu:na"), and Sket Dance ("Graffiti" and "Ikitoshi Ikiru Subete ni Sasagu"). He has performed roles in such anime as Fist of the North Star (Seiji), Shiki (Seishirō Kirishiki), and Sket Dance (Kiyoshi Date). He has also starred in live-action productions such as Moon Child (with a script he wrote himself) and the NHK Taiga drama Fūrin Kazan as Uesugi Kenshin. He has also provided theme songs for games such as Final Fantasy VII: Dirge of Cerberus. He has released 46 singles and 15 albums to date, and he holds the record for the most number of top 10 singles in Oricon's singles ranking chart for a Male Solo Artist.AFA Indonesia will take place in Jakarta, Indonesia on September 25-27.

Anime Festival Asia has held an event in Jakarta, Indonesia every year since 2012. Anime Festival Asia ran last year's event in Indonesia from August 15 to 17.

The Anime Festival Asia convention also held an event in Bangkok, Thailand from April 30 to May 3, and will hold its main convention in Singapore from November 27-29.

SOURCE: ANIME NEWS NETWORK | KAORI NUSANTARA

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