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TheAnimax Anison Grand Prix (全日本アニソングランプリ,Zen-Nihon Anison Guran Puri) is a Japaneseanime songmusic competition, organized byAnimax, in association with Jupiter Telecommunications.
The annual competition is first held across a series of preliminaries in several Japanese cities, with the chosen finalists performing at a final round, which will be broadcast across Japan onAnimax, where they will be judged by a panel of celebrity judges,music producers andrecord company executives, including noted singersIchirō Mizuki,Mitsuko Horie andYumi Matsuzawa.[1][2][3] The winner of the competition will subsequently perform a theme song to an Animaxanime project as their debut and earn a professional contract withSony Music Japan.[1][2][3]
The first Animax All-Japan Anison Grand Prix was held in July 2007, with preliminaries taking place acrossTokyo,Osaka,Fukuoka andSapporo, and was attended by 1792 applicants.[1][2][3] The winner of the competition was Shūhei Kita, who subsequently performed "Breakin' Through", the opening theme to theanime seriesPersona: Trinity Soul as his debut, and earned a professional contract with Sony Music Japan.[2][3][4] Kita subsequently also performed "Issei no Sei", the opening theme to theNatsume Yūjin-Chō anime series in 2008.[2][3][4]
The second competition, in 2008, was attended by 3186 applicants, with preliminaries held across Tokyo, Osaka,Nagoya,Fukuoka andSapporo, with eleven chosen finalists performing at the final round, held inJCB Hall inTokyo in September 2008, and was won by the Tokyo-based CanadianCatherine St. Onge, who will perform the theme song, produced byShintarō Tokita ofSukima Switch, to an Animax anime project, and earn a professional contract with Sony Music Japan.[3][4][5][6] In the first round, she performedSilly-go-round from.hack//Roots, while in the second round, she performedAdesso e Fortuna ~Honō to Eien~ fromRecord of Lodoss War.[6] Animax subsequently broadcast the "2nd All-Japan Anison Grand Prix Special", marking its tenth anniversary, on November 16, 2008, featuring live performances by judge and noted anime singer Ichiro Mizuki, idol groupAKB48 and singersAkira Kushida,Nana Kitade, the previous competition's winner Shūhei Kita, and numerous others.[3][4][5]
In February 2009, it was announced that St. Onge, under her chosenmoniker Himeka, would perform the theme song, produced by Tokita of Sukima Switch, to the anime adaptation ofValkyria Chronicles (a.k.a.Senjō no Valkyria: Gallian Chronicles), which will air from April 2009, across Animax and other Japanese broadcast networks.[4][7]
| Number | year | preliminary | Final | Winner | ||||||
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| Sapporo | Sendai | Tokyo | Nagoya | Osaka | Fukuoka | Okinawa | ||||
| First | 2007 | July 1 | - | July 16 | - | July 15 | July 8 | - | August 1 | Shūhei Kita |
| Second | 2008 | July 19 | - | August 23 | August 6 | July 26 | August 16 | - | September 21 | Catherine St. Onge (HIMEKA) |
| Third | 2009 | July 18 | - | July 20 | July 4 | July 5 | June 27 | July 11 | September 21 | Sayaka Sasaki |
| Fourth | 2010 | June 27 | July 3 | July 17 | July 10 | July 11 | June 24 | - | September 25 | Marina Kawano |
| Fifth | 2011 | June 25 July 16 | - | July 10 August 6 | July 2 July 23 | July 3 July 23 | July 9 July 30 | - | October 9 | Konomi Suzuki |
※Finals are held in Tokyo.
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