

In July 2015, the game “IA/ VT -COLORFUL-” was released for PlayStation® Vita to good reviews from all around, awarded first place in the Japanese “Weekly Famitsu” Magazine and ranking second on the PlayStation® store.īut IA’s activities aren’t limited to Japan: she’s had live events in France, Taiwan and America selling out. Boasting the largest sales for a Japanese motorsports “SUPER GT” official theme song for the second year running, there was also a collaboration with the music-and-dance game “GROOVE COASTER”, the internationally-released anime “Mekakucity Actors”, and a CD included with the last volume of the Neon Genesis Evangelion Manga.

IA’s full-scale launch as an artist was in 2013. At her launch, IA won first place in the Amazon music production software rankings, and related videos now have over 100 million views online.

Her voice source is “Lia”, a Grammy-award winning artist who has sung a number of anime theme songs. The Japanese artist born from VOCALOID technology, IA debut into British market is official. Across the 19 tracks, there’s plenty to party along to and whilst I’d like to have had a wider spread of producer tracks, it does mean that the whole concert gels really nicely into a party pop rock sound.The Japanese artist born from VOCALOID technology, IA to debut intoīritish market this Autumn at Brand Licensing Europe 2015 and HYPER JAPAN Sometimes that’s handy for stage and instrument transitions, other times it feels a bit tacked on. Between sections of tracks the screen behind her seems to be travelling to release dates of certain songs and showing artwork before the song begins. Whilst playing out many of her classics like “Inner Arts” and “Circuit DISCO” the sound is great and the crowd are clearly loving it too with their glow sticks in full rhythm. Her video game is fantastic and now she has her first live DVD/Blu-Ray and whilst it plays it safe with many of her hits on show, there’s plenty to love about it.ĭifferent from other Vocaloid concerts, here the holographic lady is dancing around on stage sometimes with human backing dancers and sharing the stage with other artists too. IA is a vocaloid that has forged her own path battling against the likes of Miku Hatsune and co as a credible star in her own right.
