🚨HELP! I need new MUSICAL, Anime and Live-Concert recommendations!

Red Velvet has been in the music industry for 11 years, boasting an amazing discography with dual sides. In my opinion, they are the most musically interesting group in K-pop.

Sorry, final crosspost from the recommendation channel because I lost where this post was, more detail there: Mint Fantome, from the Snake Eater and Santa Baby reactions, just had her Valentines Live Concert. She performed 2 full jazz sets back to back live 3d singing alongside a live band (the LA Diamond Trio), to a packed lounge, and prerecorded musical guests: Miori Celesta Nimi Nightmare Her group members, Phoebe Chan and Victoria Roman Sameko Saba Tickets sold out in less than 2 minutes to a core crowd accustomed to more idol and J-pop performances so you might notice some more unusual shows of support. We definitely surprised the band too who did amazing going along with the shenanigans. She debuted her new song from the composer of Snake Eater and a jazz rendition of her other original song. Even crazier, due to circumstances they were only able to rehearse for an hour. This was a real treat and a very impressive feat of indie ingenuity presented by Oshispark https://akasupa.com/events/from-minto-with-love Since video recording or rebroadcasting the content to other users is prohibited, at least till March 16 (since that's when the vod availability ends), I can provide for a streaming ticket if Tim chooses to watch. It just takes an account. Hope anyone into vtubing and live performances gets a chance to check this out!

May I be so bold as to drop the suggestion of Frankenstein: A New Musical (⁠~⁠￣⁠³⁠￣⁠)⁠~

I am a fresh engene converted. I suggest a reaction to the full coachella enhypen week 2 (even better than week 1) https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/4795136598480896 thank you

I think Leemujin service is a great resource for you! Basically he brings kpop idols onto his show as has them sing striped down versions of all sorts of vocal styles, there's little to no vocal production so you can really hear their unique voice. The idols also get to choose their own songs so thats cool and each person always does a duet with Leemujin at the end. Episodes that id recommend would be any of BABYMONSTER's and any of aespa's. I think you'd really appreciate BABYMONSTER's since you're already invested, and you'd get the chance to hear Rami!!

I would highly recommend Of Ashes the Musical, genuinely some of the most gut wrenching emotionally powerful music I've ever heard. Such unique voices and, u dont have to worry about not understanding cuz its meant to be consumed just as the music. The attention to vocal technique is clearly seen and I think you'd be a huge fan! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLG7VE5p_kK6rwkL6xZi2Ti51l98G1w4ec&si=x2jkQFhKcDD7jsQo

The Dear Hunter are an amazing band that a couple of years had a high quality video of a live concert at irving plaza NYC. It's a fantastic band with an incredible lead vocalist/songwriter. The whole show has to be purchased, but there are videos of the songs "at the ends of the earth" and "bring you down" on YouTube. They also did a live session with audiotree several years ago.

Falsettos is an amazing musical!

I would like some more reactions to best eurovision songs from recent years and overall? I see tim reacted to jj's song. I would really like your reaction to Slimane - Mon Amour from grandfinals https://youtu.be/-XyLecY2JyE?si=mfOZcMs9iqmaXxJw

You know who kicks ass 24/7? Bruno Mars.

I would love some songs from Bo Burnham’s Inside.

Can we take a break from the current overdose of K-pop? Or maybe throw in some other genres like you used to. Just a thought.

Faouzia live concert https://youtu.be/vnCi_QV2J48?si=DEfdiKMmh6oWjwES

Also wanna throw out there Sara Bareilles’ amidst the chaos live from the Hollywood bowl. There’s a playlist on YouTube with all the songs. Some videos, some just recordings of the songs. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLd7zKL1W1VshLupD2IBBAs1LUrlXUxicq&si=2-i8l-cm0BBJ4ztU

Milgram! It's an anime-style music project primarily consisting of music videos, audio dramas, and some short animated "episodes", centered around ten prisoners. The idea is that the characters' thoughts are turned into animated music videos, and from these the viewer has to deduce their crime and if they should be judged "innocent or guilty" for it. A lot of fun songs and characters, "Undercover" is the first/intro song, and "Backdraft" comes later and may need context but is one of my favorites in the series.

Maybe try reacting to Jourdan Blue who was on agt and got 3rd place cause during his 1st quarterfinal performance where he sang Biblical, he had a very bad food poisoning and still did very well. Here’s the link: https://youtu.be/zJTNr0ZYb20?si=ICUMcePRuLekvPJK Oh and he also has some original music if you ever wanna take a look at them 💙

Waitress!!! It’s streaming on Amazon. One of my all time favorites and the cast is outstanding.

So if you are indeed open to doing more stray kids the new dominate tour would be great but what would be much more beneficial to you Is hearing there solo stuff Here is a link with all there solo song's from their album HOP (they recently released dvd versions so please excuse the google doc link) https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_eDew7Ji5TH_yHZu-yTJaWojeUYBRHzThDWjE38WmWs/edit And if you wanna make it like a 4 parter (first two parts the the originals the the 3rd and 4th part is the cover's by the other member's) You could do the extra one where they swap their songs (example, han has a song called "hold my hand" and instead felix cover's it and so on) Here is the link for that (fun fact they match their outfit's to the one they are covering lol) https://youtu.be/p7ZTSCL72ME?si=y1uPy3SxIFsWRirP

For concerts I recommend zutomayo ! Maybe starting off with their darken (strong) performance to get a feel of how over the top they are and to hear how amazing of a singer acane is live

I just remembered that Suga of BTS has a solo documentary called SUGA: Road to D-Day. D-Day was the name of his third solo album and also the name of his solo world tour. The documentary goes over the process of writing for the album interspersed with performances of specific songs. Suga is a very prolific producer and songwriter and has contributed greatly to many of BTS’ songs

Intro to/Killing Voice for SEVENTEEN! They are unquestionably one of the most famous/popular current boy groups there is (do not be intimidated by the number of members; I promise there aren't actually 17!) Killing Voice: https://youtu.be/if6_qE9NOh4?si=a10RPCOisAN_ZCh9 This is from 3 years ago, but was uploaded with English subtitles 10 months ago.

I think you'll love Larkin Poe. Two sisters based in Nashville who play American Roots music, from rock to blues, bluegrass to country, pop to gospel. Check out their "Rockpalast" gig from 2023 or "Baloise Session" from last year.

I second Death Note, I’d also recommend Black Butler and its musicals (not sure how accessible the songs are tho… I think some clips are floating around YouTube but the full musicals would be hard to find…that would all be in Japanese)

Also for concert: Morissette has her full Ember concert on her official channel, split into four parts. Maybe you could check out each part and put part 1 in YouTube? Or if it's too long you can choose a song from it, there individual songs also have videos on her official channel 😊 it's her 15th year anniversary concert. Link to chapter 1: https://youtu.be/6XE5yB_OMrA?si=ut-cND2zxLa4_eHr

For albums, SB19 is releasing their SAW kickoff concert album on January 30. I think that date is just the album audio release, but I'm hoping they release concert videos for it eventually as well. If you're interested in documentaries, the SB19 Story episodes by cCashual Chuck (fan made on YouTube) and the Pagtatag! documentary on Netflix (covering their Pagtatag world tour) are great starts.

https://www.youtube.com/live/oKiKqycF-lk?si=wJ8adUo8-gFlc-7w hololive new years countdown concert

enhypen killing voice!

animation: The Amazing Digital Circus https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHovnlOusNLgvAbnxluXCVB3KLj8e4QB-&si=rIijcECCAY8DfpbJ

album recs: I Brought You My Bullets, You Brought Me Your Love - My Chemical Romance The Black Parade - My Chemical Romance Good & Evil - Tally Hall DECIDE - Djo

To Be Hero X (anime) has some great songs - one of the characters, Lucky Cyan, is a singer/pop star and has a few songs featured in the show (link to one of them; the video background is a montage of scenes from the show and not really a spoiler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wfEaOBVEG0.) They're not the most complex things lyrically/musically, but are still pretty good, and the show itself is super well done story and animation-wise, and more complex than the premise can seem! Definitely recommend looking it up if you're interested. Also, the final episode has one of the best epic fight background music that I've heard :)

Also I have suggested it before but idk if you saw but; the SKZ Survival Show is actually really interesting to watch because it shows their beginnings and how they made their first songs and how they were evaluated etc. I think it’s hard to watch cause it’s emotional and probably not very fair to the kids but it is their story and how they came to be and I’d be so interested to hear your analysis of it and what you think of JYP evaluations. Here’s a link. It’s 10 episodes of about 50 minutes each I think. https://strayksubs.com/stray-kids-survival-show-ep-1/ I don’t think I saw it suggested but i apologize if there’s a repeat. Thank you 💕

Death Note would be an awesome series to watch you react to. The intro / outro songs are really good, and while maybe slightly simpler than something orchestral like Frieren there are a lot of great songs throughout the show. (hoping for a full reaction to Frieren though!).

https://youtu.be/BQ2MmNWV0uM?si=YmaMvDlYfz4xDyB0 - I highly recommend this song for the anime "The Apothecary Diaries." I won't recommend anything bad, this is a live performance. And First take: https://youtu.be/M-l3mNWB7W8?si=emNs2275fVHATMbC

Fitting perfectly into anime and musical, Death Note: The Musical. Particularly the song "The Way It Ends", featuring the ever-popular and fantastic Jeremy Jordan and Jarrod Spector. There are other songs in the musical that also showcase Jeremy in great ways, but "The Way It Ends" is just a whole next level in my opinion. Other worthy songs are "Stalemate", "Hurricane", "Secrets and Lies", and "Where is the Justice?".

Next to normal? https://ga.pbs-video.pbs.org/videos/great-performances/857ea995-0305-4a70-9bca-7f80346cc25e/2000476274/hd-16x9-mezzanine-1080p/gper5112-mp4-720p-3000k.mp4](https://ga.pbs-video.pbs.org/videos/great-performances/857ea995-0305-4a70-9bca-7f80346cc25e/2000476274/hd-16x9-mezzanine-1080p/gper5112-mp4-720p-3000k.mp4

Hades (video game by SuperGiant) OST

Clair Obscur Expedition 33 OST. The composer is a frickin genius that the dev just found on a random music forum. Final Fantasy 15 soundtrack especially the Ignis DLC. It's all on Spotify and probably on YT

Requesting a couple of killing voices just because i love their voices. Taeyeon - female soloist Apink - older girl group just celebrating their 15th anniversary

Full concert - The Black Parade is Dead! From MCR. https://youtu.be/Ud2eziOjjTo?si=ecx7rVX8zZqpXiXc Technically 2 concerts, one full run through of their album The Black Parade with full theatrics that ends at the 1 hour mark, followed by a smaller, more intimate concert that includes some of their other music

Also for some fun worlds colliding, there's the orchestrated opera piece from the game Final Fantasy VI. Here's the one from the Distant Worlds soundtrack. I'll have to dig around for a live version. https://youtu.be/V8D8x3NQySE?si=2WwJfUI13Tsy_gIP

Starkid musicals? Twisted is my favorite.

Also I love the music from the game Nier Automata (and also Nier). https://youtu.be/j31iRisXp20?si=lKydxudfU449_W8I

Something from Kalafina could be up your alley. Three part harmonies along with music composed by the legendary Yuki Kajiura. They've done a bunch of songs for different anime series and stand alone stuff too. https://youtu.be/AYeEcPhugGw?si=6KurTLMWqDnctMhE

Wendy's (Red Velvet) W:EALIVE concert, probably the Brooklyn or Washington DC performance since she's at her most comfortable towards the end of the US part of the tour. I got to go to the Pasadena performance and she was fantastic! I want her to have a live band always. DC performance (part 1) https://youtu.be/fMuk7iFkE0U?si=csCiaWNPfEsk6VQV

I would love your take on Polka from Hololive's Popopo especially the live version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YxsfvcWZu0&list=RD0YxsfvcWZu0&start_radio=1

An updated version of the iconic One Winged Angel from Final Fantasy 7. A 10 minute track with 3 distinct phases. Is very much a “oh shit I’m going to die” piece of music https://youtu.be/GqXYXd-4xQs?si=zitG7AeMRNReK04_

Video game OST since you did include them in what you said you were looking for. Ascension from Final Fantasy 16. It’s a 9 minute track with a lot of classical elements https://youtu.be/rogKdcO7t3A?si=mYDecJ-8Yl4xwdW6

The Rose performing songs from their most recent album WRLD. It was a mini album. They are very much soft rock and that is greatly reflected in this album. While they are a Korean group, a large majority of their discography is in English

BTS Room Live for their 2021 Festa https://youtu.be/RRhjdYsNwAk?si=51WPkohs5C3T2j7k It’s a 10-minute performance they did a bit similar to a Killing Voice, but as a medley with one song from each of their albums at the time. Super fun performance!!

I always love seeing people's reactions to RWBY. The music for the series is all made just for the series and the lyrics are actually helpful with world building and hearing the inner thoughts of the characters. And they're mostly performed by a father and daughter, in the earlier volumes I believe she was just 13 or 14. Its got 9 volumes right now but I believe they're currently working on the next volume now. I'd say check out the Red, White, Black and Yellow trailers to see if you're interested.

Concert suggestion! Aurora in Nidarosdomen :) https://youtu.be/XXVwFvkNTEg?si=yc0zLe8ZaOOfpPXA

Concert: BTS Yet To Come in Busan Their last group concert before service. Lot of emotions for lots of reasons, including tension with officials. It was a free event.

Raye - Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival https://youtu.be/4GRfxJiQeyM?si=RDTXyRponiV--pBe

And I forgot Ateez' Coachella Perfomance_Week 2 https://www.bilibili.tv/en/video/4791904200950272

I highly recommend Dreamcatcher. They are so good! Maybe Justice / It's live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeXZ_ixi58I and Fireflies live https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCoevCD7K-c And then there are these two secret duetts. They are incredible https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waIoo19aKnc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqVaW6vRylI

Can't recommend Willow's Tiny Dest concert enough. Not long, but full of great vocals and musicianship. https://youtu.be/DmC2QQESN6E?si=MA0iBxh634balcHL

You have BTOB's Killing Voice listed in this post, but I can't find that reaction anywhere. Has it been recorded already but not posted yet? Stray Kids is my favourite group but BTOB has my favourite Killing Voice, so I don't want to miss it! Thanks. :D

I want to suggest this Berq Live Session again. Its only 16min so not a whole concert. https://youtu.be/oSBZzJWs6kU?si=-yg5j5XGhelXGScZ

It's not technically an anime OR a musical, but I'd love to see an Arcane reaction. It does incorporate music pretty heavily in the show and it's just so good. Powerful and emotional. No link because it's on Netflix, which might make this tricky, but it would be worth it I think!

If we are also looking for new Killing Voice suggestions I would love to suggest (G)I-dle. They are my absolut favorite Kpop gg

Hi idk if it is applicable here, but League puts on their World Championships and tends to have really good opening ceremonies. I will link a few of the songs below. K/DA - POP/STARS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9oDlvOV3qs HEARTSTEEL - PARANOIA - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1LFDCZMrVo True Damage - GIANTS - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFkZjTCxVPc

If you haven't checked out either Death Note the anime is a classic and there's a really good musical based on it too!

One of my favorite movies is The Greatest Showman.

I’d really love to see you react to hololive production COUNTDOWN LIVE 2025▷2026, Hololive’s New Year’s countdown concert. It’s a free, full-length 3D live featuring 60 talents across hololive (JP), hololive Indonesia, hololive English, and hololive DEV_IS, and this year the entire setlist is Hololive original songs. The audio is clean enough to actually talk technique and production: vocal consistency while dancing, breath control, blend in group numbers, stylistic choices, and how different voice types are arranged in big ensemble songs. I think a lot of VTuber fans would be really happy to see your professional take on it. To me this is one of the most polished VTuber concert productions out there, and it’s a fun watch all the way through. Link: https://www.youtube.com/live/oKiKqycF-lk?si=vOdMJGajCSY7HmaU

Another Documentary I recommend is "The Abandoned Vtuber That Made it" A Hoshimachi Suisei Story 12 minutes long, a tale as old as time but still one to enjoy for a short video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD8oL4CRu64

For Documentary I suggest "How a turtle accidentally created the perfect Ai streamer" The tale of Neuro Sama https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ0osmPlSaY

for Concerts I suggest Hololive Countdown Live 2025 > 2026. It's a faux concert they do every year counting down to new years. This year they did a "countdown" by having every group perform a song from newest group to oldest. It's a great showcase of all the girls so you can at least see and hear them all. There are 3 not in the showcase, 2 because of medical issues and 1 (Suisei) because she was performing on national television and they did no want to split the fan base. About an hour long cutting off the advertising intro. Hit me up if you want the set list https://www.youtube.com/live/oKiKqycF-lk

FTISLAND Killing Voice. Unfortunately it’s not the whole band just their lead singer Lee Hong-gi, but he is an incredibly talented vocalist https://youtu.be/5C3f01ZiovA?si=b2QgxqRL7g3CMZRI

J-Hope of BTS also did two solo performances at Lollapalooza. The first one in 2022 in Chicago https://youtu.be/6ak5yOmj8W8?si=TEOZtsRFpx4xG8-b that was before the military. After the military he performed last year at Lollapalooza in Berlin https://www.youtube.com/live/-YCex08v-UQ?si=Mihqy4YsxNHsYlPs I swear that man has no bones in his body when he dances

Full concert - ATEEZ Coachella Weekend 1 (made history as the first kpop boy group to ever play Coachella and ends with Jongho performing basically a vocal miracle)

Full concert - tim Minchin is consistently one of my absolute favorite artists - brilliant performer and even more songwriter and wordsmith. I’ve travelled across the country to see him. This is a Covid era concert he livecast and is now on YT. Watched it more times than I want to admit. https://youtu.be/NMMDP_5CJ78?si=xSECs2QCJJHzkfDe

Once again recommending BTS Yet To Come concert. It’s streaming on Amazon. It was their last concert before going into the military. It was also a free concert and was watched on live stream by millions all over the world. Turn on subtitles, everything is translated including song lyrics

Anime - Gachiakuta (English Dub) on Crunchyroll

I doubt there will be much support for this, but I quite like the documentary “Twenty Feet from Stardom”.

Ateez at Coachella. One OK Rock Ambitions Japan Dome Tour. Ateez members on Lee Mujin Services (Hongjoong, Jongho, San, Seonghwa) One OK Rock - Orchestra Ver. (Stand out fit in, I was king)

Thinking about documentaries The Show Must Go On: The Queen + Adam Lambert Story is pretty good

The 2026 guide to Straykids just came out it has tons of info, if you wanted you could probably split it into part like you did for lalapalooza

Unironically the songs/singing in shrek the musical is great. They have a wide variety of voices and song genres. It's one of my favourite musicals to sing a long to while cleaning.

Blackpink Tokyo Dome 2020

As for a show with great music in it, I would love to see you react to RWBY!

A great VTuber concert would be Neuro’s 3D Karaoke stream: https://youtu.be/A-tplIW_uvc?si=TXSb4obNXXi9jxso

Hadestown! It's a musical rooted in folk music traditions, has amazing storytelling, and themes of hope and solidarity. I like to think of it as a folk opera.

You could do one of the 2 Yorushika full concert available on their youtube channel. Both are really creative piece of art. Or just one of their song to begin with. Spring thief for exemple.

Carole & Tuesday

For musicals, starkid shows might be interesting

There’s a really cool concert/event series by THE ORAL CIGARETTES called PARASITE DEJAVU. They’re a Japanese rock band known for super energetic live shows and mixing rock with alt & pop. What I really love about this event is that one of the days is an omnibus (multi-band) show, so they perform alongside a bunch of other great artists. I’m especially fond of the performance below with Sky-hi — I just have way too much love for this man and everything he’s done for the Japanese music scene and production 😌 https://youtu.be/CwPJOeWKZ7Y?si=ltUhc8I0JunydaWM

For musical anime, Macross Frontier is a bit older (2008) but still close to my heart. The music was composed by Yoko Kanno, one of the most well-known and respected composers in Japan for anime soundtracks. The story, like most Macross series, involves music saving the world from aliens, lol. But honestly the songs and music are great. There's even a live concert that they did for Macross Frontier in Budokan with the voice actresses for the two main characters performing their songs.

Mob Psycho 100 as an Anime. Often described as an modern classic, it's just a great experience, that gives you everything you would want out of an anime with amazing animations, a great soundtrack, a cool story with characters you will never forget. The opening and ending songs are also always worth to check out even if you won't watch the Anime.

The Red Velvet Killing Voice is great 👍

Aurora’s Nidarosdomen concert. It’s an amazing concert with full orchestra in an incredibly beautiful old cathedral in Norway.

Something the Kpop community talked about on discord was to watch Kingdom together. You allready looked at the I'll be your man and Love Poem performaces from that show. Now we could either start with Road to Kingdom which is a prequel to Kingdom Legendary War or jump into Legendary War imideatly (thats the one with Straykids, Ateez, BTOB...). I think it could be really fun for the Stays, Atiny and the Kpop community in general😊

You had expressed some interest in Kellin Quinn in your reaction to "King for a Day" because of his high voice. His band, Sleeping With Sirens has tons of contents to check out, they've got a acoustic album called "If you were a movie, this would be your soundtrack", a live and unplugged EP of the same name as well as their 7 studio albums, excluding the ones above. A analysis of his voice over time would be pretty interesting, but even more so the difference of studio vs. Live

One Piece: Film Red

A skz thing I saw people suggest multiple times was to watch the recording studio bts they did for the 5star Album and some of their japanese Songs. That might be right up your ally because it gives you the chance to hear their raw vocals and an idea on how they work. I think Libby put the Link for the one where they did MEGAVERSE and Cover me into the requests for this month but I will drop it here again just in case😊 https://youtu.be/YMb3EHXjs50?si=3vQarF8_ooAzLzp1 I hope if do this it comes with a Song Analysis for especially Megaverse🫣 its such a banger!!! https://youtu.be/JqwPCzJnYyY?si=c24QIZY9_yDZdzua https://youtu.be/9kTQAqU8XFc?si=2LtmwAsKbb4WwLKW

Original concept album of Chess bs Chess in concert w Josh Groban and idina menzel

There's the new stay kids dominATE tour in Seoul Blu Ray that just came out. Idk if you could get a hold of it. I'm sure some stays would let you borrow it or even send you one 🩷 it's really good and they perform all their solos, I know you were wanting to get into those!

One of the most famous choral pieces on the planet right now. World O World LIVE https://youtu.be/qwxRyUnujvg?si=c-cqiLC4BNcdwcDV World O World Original https://youtu.be/DUS1wnA0SQM?si=aNTA2vd26-gwEa4U Choirs all over the globe want to sing this well.

Maybe could we do like “look at their career deep dives”? Example, Kelly clarkson American idol performances, then like a song from various parts of her career?

Frozen on broadway

Prince of Egypt on broadway