Sony sounds out overseas markets with Japanese anime songs

Group taps vast entertainment network to pump homegrown hits

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Risa Oribe, aka LiSA, is behind the hit songs for Sony's "Demon Slayer" franchise. (Photo by Hajime Kamiiisaka)

KOSUKE SHIMIZU, Nikkei staff writer

TOKYO -- About three years ago Tokyo-based anime house Aniplex pitched Sony Music Labels with an idea: How about letting LiSA do a song for "Demon Slayer," now a blockbuster TV and movie anime.

Sony Music general manager Yosuke Hasegawa bought it. He then called on singer Risa Oribe, aka LiSA, and other Sony musicians to work out a song, eventually coming up with "Gurenge," the title track for the TV series that preceded the movie.

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