Performs his 1st character song as Dante, vocalist in anime's visual-kei band JardiN
This
year's 28th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is
announcing on Monday that singer Gackt will guest-star on the Sket Dance
television anime series — as a singer modeled after himself. He is also
performing his first character song, or a song performed under the
persona of a fictional character, in the "Kaimei Rock Festival"
storyline.
Gackt will play Dante, the vocalist of a high
school visual-kei band named JardiN. Gackt himself was the former
vocalist of a visual-kei band named Malice Mizer, and original manga
creator Kenta Shinohara openly acknowledged that he modeled the popular
character Dante in Gackt's image. Gackt will perform the song "Iki Toshi
Ikeru Subete ni Tsugu" as Dante. Ryo (Black Rock Shooter, Guilty Crown)
composed the song with lyrics by Seiko Fujibayashi (Fullmetal
Alchemist, One Piece).The anime premiered in April. In
the story, YĆ«suke "Bossun" Fujisaki (Hiroyuki Yoshino) and several
students in his high school form a "Sket Group" to solve any trouble in
the student body. The "Kaimei Rock Festival" storyline is set during the
school's live event of the same name.
Gackt has voiced characters in other anime: New Fist of the North Star, Shiki, Supernatural the Animation ( STILL WAITING FOR GACKT AND J2 TO MEET DAMMIT), and Tono to Issho.
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