{"id":37909,"date":"2022-06-04T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2022-06-04T18:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/?p=37909"},"modified":"2022-06-05T12:05:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T19:05:21","slug":"crunchyroll-expo-announces-new-crunchy-city-music-fest-and-its-first-headlining-act-atarashii-gakko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/2022\/06\/04\/crunchyroll-expo-announces-new-crunchy-city-music-fest-and-its-first-headlining-act-atarashii-gakko\/","title":{"rendered":"Crunchyroll Expo Announces New Crunchy City Music Fest and its First Headlining Act, ATARASHII GAKKO!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll Expo announced New Crunchy City Music Fest, a three-day music festival featuring domestic and international artists, to occur concurrently with the anime convention. New Crunchy City Music Fest also announced their first headlining act, 88rising\u2019s <\/span><b>ATARASHII GAKKO!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Select acts from the New Crunchy City Music Fest will be available for stream and digital<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> replay until August 9, 2022<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Additional details on alternative viewings will come soon.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>ATARASHII GAKKO!<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are a group of four young women, donning sailor uniforms\u00a0 traditionally worn by Japanese students in the 70s and 80s, who have created their own unique brand of music and choreography. Their combination of Japanese butoh dance, headbanging, and street dancing with J-Pop, Showa-era kayokyoku, punk, and rap music has created a genre unique only to <\/span><b>ATARASHII GAKKO!<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ATARASHII GAKKO! - Free Your Mind (Official Music Video)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5sIIOnXJVrw?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Crunchyroll describes <\/span><b>ATARASHII GAKKO!<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe outlandish quartet \u2014 comprised of kawaii-but-fierce <\/span><b>Mizyu<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, wildcard <\/span><b>Suzuka<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, graceful <\/span><b>Kanon <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and funky <\/span><b>Rin <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u2014 break down genre walls to create music mixing elements of pop, jazz, hip-hop, rock and more, delivered with a punk energy and featuring frantic dance moves, choreographed by the four members themselves.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Along with the New Crunchy City Music Fest, Crunchyroll Expo offers four distinct districts: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Central Shopping District which features merchandise and Crunchyroll Expo exclusive swag; Arts District which features nearly 150 artists; Theater District for anime premieres and screenings, and Super Arcade for gaming, raving, and more unique programming.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\">Access to the music festival is included free with tickets to Crunchyroll Expo. From August 5 to August 7, 2022, the anime convention will be at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center in San Jose, California.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt\"><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Press release<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crunchyroll Expo announced New Crunchy City Music Fest, a three-day music festival featuring domestic and international artists, to occur concurrently with the anime convention. New Crunchy City Music Fest also announced their first headlining act, 88rising\u2019s ATARASHII GAKKO! Select acts from the New Crunchy City Music Fest will be available for stream and digital replay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":37910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4688,4685],"class_list":["post-37909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anime","tag-atarashii-gakko","tag-crunchyroll-expo-2022"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/CRX22_Featured-Guest_ATARASHI-GAKKO_16x9-1-scaled-e1654368458317.jpg?fit=1920%2C1080&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8n4QV-9Rr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37947,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37909\/revisions\/37947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anitrendz.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}