8 groups of “Jr. EXILE” & “NEO EXILE” with total 65 members gathered for “VS” themed album release in August and live performances in Saitama and Osaka
LDH’s comprehensive entertainment project “BATTLE OF TOKYO” held an emergency press conference in Tokyo on May 7. Since the project started in 2019, the project has been developed mainly by 5 groups of “Jr.EXILE generation”, and 4 groups of “NEO EXILE generation” who debuted last year were announced to participate in the project.
“BATTLE OF TOKYO” will be performed by a total of 45 members of GENERATIONS, THE RAMPAGE, FANTASTICS, BALLISTIK BOYZ and PSYCHIC FEVER, the project is a comprehensive entertainment project that fuses and crosses real and virtual worlds, including novels, animations, games, songs, and live performances. In the work, the members of Jr.EXILE generation gather and battle in the fictional future city “Cho-Tokyo”.
Starting in 2019 as “ENTER THE Jr.EXILE”, performances have been held as “TIME 4 Jr.EXILE” (2022) and “CODE OF Jr.EXILE” (2023), and this year, under the theme of “VS”, THE RAMPAGE, FANTASTICS, BALLISTIK BOYZ, PSYCHIC FEVER from “Jr.EXILE generation”, LIL LEAGUE, KID PHENOMENON, WOLF HOWL HARMONY, THE JET BOY BANGERZ from “NEO EXILE generation”, appeared.
At the press conference, “battle songs” for each combination were announced, and the new album “BATTLE OF TOKYO ~Jr.EXILE vs NEO EXILE~” containing these battle songs will be released on August 7, and the live concerts Saitama Super Arena in Saitama(August 10-12) and Kyocera Dome Osaka in Osaka (August 31-September 1), among others, were also revealed.
■Group Battle Combinations & Songs
・THE RAMPAGE vs THE JET BOY BANGERZ 「Goodest Baddest」
・FANTASTICS vs KID PHENOMENON 「TurquoiseSun & PinkPurpleMoon」
・BALLISTIK BOYZ vs LIL LEAGUE 「Icy Fire」
・PSYCHIC FEVER vs WOLF HOWL HARMONY「YING YANG」
■Special Battle Combinations
・Kazuma Kawamura(THE RAMPAGE)vs Riki Matsui(BALLISTIK BOYZ)vs Kokoro Kohatsu(PSYCHIC FEVER)
・Hokuto Yoshino(THE RAMPAGE)vs Yusei Yagi(FANTASTICS)
・MA55IVE THE RAMPAGE(LIKIYA, Shohei Urakawa, Kenta Kamiya, Shogo Yamamoto, Takahide Suzuki)vs RYOJI(WOLF HOWL HARMONY)vs SUZUKI(WOLF HOWL HARMONY)
■Dream Stage Combinations
・RIKU(THE RAMPAGE)vs Yuhi Uhara(THE JET BOY BANGERZ)
・Sota Nakajima(FANTASTICS)vs HIROTO(WOLF HOWL HARMONY)