Fujiko-chan U.S.-Based Japanese Rock Band Hits the Anime Circuit
source: http://www.otakuusamagazine.com/JPop/Public/News1/Fujikochan_1553.aspx
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Fujiko-chan is a four-member Japanese rock band formed and based in San Francisco, consisting of one female vocalist and three male musicians, two on guitar and one on drums. They incorporate a wide range of styles—punk, heavy metal, hard rock, and a form of Japanese pop called mudokayo (moody blues)—but have achieved a reputation based on their affinity for covers of anime theme songs. Their name comes from Fujiko, the comely, naughty, often duplicitous female lead from the Lupin the 3rd anime series. They’ve done songs from such anime as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Nana, Death Note, Lupin the 3rd (of course), and the 2009 anime series, K-ON!, which happens to be about an all-girl Japanese high school rock band. Most of the vocals are in Japanese, yet the group has performed exclusively at conventions and events in California and Nevada, including Fanime in San Jose, ChibiFest in Las Vegas, and KinyobiCon in Hayward, and they hope to expand to any gathering on the anime circuit that will invite them.
Fujiko-chan at FanimeCon 2009 8-sI had the opportunity to watch Fujiko-chan perform as one of the intermission acts during the Masquerade Contest at this year’s Anime Expo in Los Angeles and then interview them the next morning. They put on a rousing 15-minute, four-song set that had the audience (restless from two-and-a-half hours of increasingly mind-numbing cosplay skits) jumping up from their seats and running up towards the stage to dance. Vocalist naoko Mine came out with splashes of red in her hair and sang in a driving, aggressive rock style, while lead guitarist Koichi, adorned in a green military-style overcoat and officer’s cap, with white face paint, wowed the crowed with his virtuoso guitar riffs. As vocalist naoko put it in the interview:
Fujiko-chan at FanimeCon 2009 8-sI had the opportunity to watch Fujiko-chan perform as one of the intermission acts during the Masquerade Contest at this year’s Anime Expo in Los Angeles and then interview them the next morning. They put on a rousing 15-minute, four-song set that had the audience (restless from two-and-a-half hours of increasingly mind-numbing cosplay skits) jumping up from their seats and running up towards the stage to dance. Vocalist naoko Mine came out with splashes of red in her hair and sang in a driving, aggressive rock style, while lead guitarist Koichi, adorned in a green military-style overcoat and officer’s cap, with white face paint, wowed the crowed with his virtuoso guitar riffs. As vocalist naoko put it in the interview:
