Growing up beside Japan's huge animation industry, a music scene based on creating and performing the theme tunes and hit songs of popular anime works has come a long way in the past few decades, becoming a mainstream phenomenon at home and arousing growing interest abroad.But for a veteran group of so-called "anison" musicians who did more than any other to create the genre, a planned concert tour last year on their 20th anniversary -- later canceled due to the pandemic -- was expected to mark the end of the road: they were simply out of inspiration."Looking back now, I was unable to get o…READ FULL ARTICLE
