Region’s top Japanese Popular Culture Festival, Anime Festival Asia 2014 is here! Mark your dates this December for Anime Festival Asia 2014 (AFA 2014), for a sensory treat of good music, shopping, anime-related content and much more. The region’s biggest festival for Japanese Popular Culture, which saw over 80,000 visitors last year, returns on 5 – 7 December 2014, to Suntec Singapore Convention & Exhibition Centre, Singapore. Organisers shared the I Love Anisong artist line-up, one of the festival’s key highlights.Fans can look forward to a combination of familiar favourites and new experience zones. They include: The return of the Akiba Town retail experience area with exclusive merchandise direct from Japan, the Creator Hub featuring works by fans, for fans, and the Japan Future Entertainment Zone. Cosplay lovers will see South-east Asia’s best cosplayers battle it out in the annual AFA Regional Cosplay Competition. More details will be available closer to date. THE BEST OF LIVE MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT – I LOVE ANISONG CONCERTS From artistes who will perform in Singapore for the first time, to returning heavyweights bringing their latest performances never seen before in South-east Asia, music lovers can enjoy three days of exciting concerts. Featuring a stellar line-up of eight artistes with more to be announced at a later date, this is one of the biggest gathering of anisong artistes, outside of Japan for a single event. I Love Anisong The signature I Love Anisong concerts will be held on 5, 6 and 7 December, and will feature the following: angela, making their return to AFA after their last performance in Singapore in 2013 Eir Aoi, making her return to AFA after her first performance in Singapore in 2013 Eri Kitamura, making her first performance in South East Asia at AFA 2014 FLOW, making their return after their last appearance in 2012. THE IDOLM@STER, first time ever in Singapore fripSide, making their return after their last appearance in 2012. GARNiDELiA, making their AFA Singapore debut. DJ Kazu, coming to AFA Singapore for the very first time. LiSA, making her return to AFA Singapore May’n, marking her 7th AFA Singapore appearance ROOT FIVE, fist time in AFA yanaginagi, performing at her very first AFA. Yui Horie, performing at her very first AFA.