FLOW World Tour: 2024-2025 Anime Shibari
Japanese rock band FLOW, known for countless anime song contributions, has announced the band's largest-ever and first five-continent tour in its history- “FLOW WORLD TOUR- ANIME SHIBARI 2024-2025” with a stop at Detroit’s Fisher Theatre. Tickets go on sale Thursday, May 2 and will be available online at BroadwayInDetroit.com and at the Fisher Theatre box office starting at noon.
At this time, a total of 16 performances have been announced for Australia and North America. After that, they are scheduled to tour Europe, South America, and Asia, with the total number of performances still to be announced.
The tour title "ANIME SHIBARI" meaning “Anime-only” in Japanese, denotes that they will only perform the numerous songs that FLOW has contributed to Japanese animation. Many of FLOW's most popular songs will be performed, including songs from "NARUTO," "Code Geass," "Dragon Ball Z," and more.
Their highest streamed song “Sign” has amassed over 100 million streams on Spotify alone, and FLOW is loved around the world having performed in nearly 20 countries from 2006 until now.
The tour will kick off in Australia in July, then move on to a North American tour, with stops in the United States and Canada. Major cities such as Sydney, New York, Chicago, and Toronto are among the tour destinations.
Further tour dates and details of performances in Europe, South America, and Asia are to be announced on FLOW’s official website, special World Tour website, and social media at a later date.
As a tribute to FLOW’s anime heritage and tour theme, the key visual of the World Tour features the five band members depicted as anime characters, along with an animated promotional video, both created by ZERO Animation.
FLOW declares, "Over the past 20 years, our audience has helped us create music and live performances as FLOW. Now we are taking it all around the world through our World Tour. Let's create the best time together during our performances as we celebrate the world of anime works we've collaborated with. Thank you to everyone for your support!"
Detailed information such as tour performance locations, dates, VIP/general ticket sales, etc. will be updated regularly on FLOW's official website, official World Tour website, and social media.
Before kicking off their tour in Australia, in Japan FLOW will hold "FLOW THE FESTIVAL 2024", an anime song rock festival they curated to wrap up their 20th anniversary. This festival will be their first curated festival and biggest performance to date.
A 5-member mixture rock band started by brothers KOHSHI (older brother, vocals) and TAKE (younger brother, guitar) in 1993, completing into its current member formation in 2000. After debuting in 2003, FLOW has an established reputation for hit anime works, including themes for anime “NARUTO” (GO!!!, many others), opening themes for “Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion”, (COLORS, WORLD END), and the opening theme for ”Tales of Zestiria the Cross” (Kaze no Uta). They have written songs for numerous other anime works as well.
Since 2006 they have been active playing shows not only in Japan but overseas, performing over 60 live performances in 19 countries in Asia, North America, South America, Europe, and the Middle East, transcending borders as a live band. Strongly streamed, their song “Sign” for the opening of “NARUTO Shippuden” has been played over 120 million times worldwide on Spotify.
FLOW celebrated their 20th anniversary on July 2, 2022, and on November 16 released the single "Daydream Believer" in collaboration with ORANGE RANGE. In July 2023, the band's largest one-man performance, "FLOW 20th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL LIVE 2023 ~Anime Shibari Festival~" was held at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall in Japan.
