AWA, a subscription-based music streaming service run by AWA Co., Ltd. (head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; CEO: Togashi Akimi), will be holding the 48th episode of “AWA Stage (commonly known as AWASTES),” a program that will open up the next stage in the scene, starting at 22:00 on Friday, April 18th, 2025, in its “Lounge,” an online space that anyone can participate for free, and invites guests to attract attention from the online scene and brings together popular artists, mainly on the internet scene, and together with the expert MC, to open up the next stage in the scene.
The 48th guest will be the VTuber project “Parasto!” set at the music school “Tsunoki Gakuin”. Three groups from “Kazuhara Asahi,” “white umbrella jellyfish,” “Owl note,” and “Minaton,” a male singer with a wide variety of expressions, and musician Vtuber “Minaton.” have been confirmed to appear!
The program MC is TAKUYA the bringer, an official online curator of AWA and runs the event space “Akihabara Entertainment,” featuring over 100 VTubers a year, writer/editor Moriyama de Ro, and virtual singer Shikibu Meguri.
Stay tuned for the talks and projects unique to the “AWA Lounge” where you can interact with listeners. Anyone can participate in the lounge for free, and if you download the AWA app in advance, you can enjoy it even more by requesting and interacting with artists.
■ Overview of “Awaste” 48th episode
Date and Time: Friday, April 18th, 2025, 22:00-24:00
Guest: Parasto! Kanahara Asahi / Parasto! White umbrella jellyfish / owl note / Minaton.
Main MC: TAKUYA the bringer
Sub-MC: Shikibu Megumi, Moriyama de Ro
* Appearances may be cancelled at the last minute.
▼Job participation URL
https://mf.awa.fm/open_awastage_0418_pr
■Parass!
Set in the music school “Tsunai Gakuin” somewhere in Japan, this VTuber project is where members of the group grow through various activities such as music and games, with the aim of the anniversary event “Tsunai Festival” one year later.
Kanohara Asahi
A popular monster who is always good at being energetic.
He is promoting the band inside the academy with a huge loudspeaker.
Loves fun and has a shallow laugh
The sense of distance between you and others is a bug, and you’re popular with people of all ages and genders even within the school.
White umbrella jellyfish
He is a self-proclaimed super hacker, but in fact he is just a machine-inducing young lady.
He’s extremely shy and has many misses, but the butler’s drone “Jerif” solves most anything.
He ran out of home to become a musician, a dream he had ever dreamed of since childhood, and enrolled at Atsushinari Gakuin to find his friends.
■Owl note
In May 2020, the singer began her activities as a weak acidity.
While continuing to actively work under weakly acidic names, including posting videos of singing, he made his major debut as Owl Note on May 5, 2023.
In 2024, he has been holding his first solo concert, “Owl Note 1st Live – Diluculo” at Zepp Henada, and in August of the same year he also successfully performed a solo concert at Toyosu PIT, continuing to increase his activities.
A male singer with a clear yet thick voice quality and a wide variety of expressions, including chorus arrangements.
■Minato.
Songs make your heart surge sharply! Composer Doctor Minaton. is.
Everything from singing and singing to writing lyrics and composition! The wide range of singing voices will express original songs with various worldviews.
The stream focuses on singing slots, while the short videos focuses on interesting composition topics.
He is currently focusing on real live shows! The stage will be livened up with original songs and arrangements that can only be heard live. With six months of debut, the number of growth still remains limitless! Check it out!
■TAKUYA the bringer
Navigate the #VMDJ radio show “VTuber music DJ’s” that focuses on original songs by virtual artists
April 2020 – June 2021 InterFM
From July 2021 on YouTube every Monday from midnight
The song selections of TAKUYA the Bringer, who has been a DJ for many years, are so attractive that it makes you forget the passage of time, and many listeners comment that “the timeline is bent.” He also runs the Akihabara Entertainment, an event space featuring over 100 VTubers a year, and Entertainment, known as a sacred place for VTubers, contributes to the development of culture since the early days.
X Account: https://twitter.com/selecta_takuya?s=21&t=ItGm0M7QrBIzzZ30k3K6PA
TAKUYA the bringer account:https://mf.awa.fm/3I8TSk9
■ Shikibu Meguro
A complicated literary girl who admires Murasaki Shikibu, singing virtually electro music. Nicknamed “Shikimegu”. My dream is to become an idol like the moon. In February 2020, he began his personal activities as a VTuber and Vsinger. The first single, “Aqua Loop (feat. TEMPLIME)” won number one on the iTunes electro charts, and has since continued to release original songs, provide singing and lyrics, perform live performances, and more as a Vsinger focusing on electro music. It features an adult, sweet candy voice. On YouTube, he mainly posts music videos and cover videos of original songs. As an official partner, Twitch also holds live streaming, mainly games.
■Moriyama de Ro
Writer/edited. Born in 1988, from Nagasaki. I love Clairo and Lovely Summer.
■App overview
“AWA” is a subscription-based (flat rate) music streaming service provided by AWA Corporation, a joint investment by CyberAgent Inc. and Avex Entertainment Inc. The service began offering its service in May 2015, with 150 million songs being distributed and approximately 16 million playlists created by celebrities and users. In addition to the “FREE Plan,” which offers all functions for free, except for the “STANDARD Plan” which offers 980 yen (tax included) per month (1,080 yen (tax included) for App Store, Google Play, and convenience store payments), and the “FREE Plan,” which allows you to use all functions for free monthly, except for the “Offline Play” which offers all functions for 480 yen (tax included) per month, and the “Artist Plan,” which offers unlimited listening to certain artists for 270 yen (tax included) per month. “AWA” is compatible with a variety of devices, including smartphones, computers, TVs, car navigation systems, wearable devices, and smart speakers. Since its launch, it has expanded its various plans and functions to suit the user’s needs and viewing environment, including the “LYRIC DIVE,” a function that beautifully animates lyrics in real time to match the song, and the “AWA Lounge,” an online space where users who have added live audio streaming and gifting functions can enjoy the same music in the same space in real time, and has grown into the largest music streaming service in Japan.
Name: “AWA”https://awa.fm/
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Price: STANDARD plan (980 yen incl. tax) / FREE plan (free monthly) / Student plan (480 yen incl. tax) / Artist plan (270 yen incl. tax) *Unlimited listening to one specific artist)
Available: May 27, 2015
■URL
AWA:https://awa.fm/
App Store:https://itunes.apple.com/jp/app/id980578855
Google Play:https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=fm.awa.liverpool
Desktop app:https://awa.fm/download/
AWA LOUNGE Browser Version:https://app.awa.fm/lounge/
Latest AWA news:https://news.awa.fm/
AWA Official X:https://x.com/awa_official
AWA Official LINE:https://lin.ee/21w3f0k
■Company Profile
Company name: AWA Co., Ltd. (Read: AWA)
Address: Sumitomo Real Estate Azabu Juban Building, 1-4-1 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Representative: CEO Togashi Akimi
Business content: Music streaming services, etc.
Established: December 1, 2014
■Contact information
AWA Public Relations Press@awa.fm
