Digimon Medley - Animenz Live 2016 in Beijing

[Piano performance starts from 1:32]

This video is a live footage from the piano concert in Beijing, the final city of my Animenz live tour 2016 in China. After playing anime songs for one and half hours in the Beijing Concert, my stamina was almost at its limit (you can actually see my face is quite messy in the video) but still, l wanted to play one special song as the final act:
A Digimon medley in memory of the late Kouji Wada.

He was the singer for many iconic Digimon songs and unfortunately, he has passed away this year because of health problems. Therefore, I wanted to play this Digimon medley to honor his legacy and his legendary music.

The entire medley was improvised on the spot and in this moment, my mind was completely immersed in the music and I was recalling all my fond childhood memories of Digimon.
I didn't even realized that people were taking out their phones midway and waving along the music, until I have played the last note. It was... how should I put it... a truly magical moment.
It's like I woke up from a beautiful dream.

And this is why anime (piano) music will always have a special place in my heart:
It is able to evoke incredible emotions of the listeners and that feeling of unity among anime fans - even if it's a just for a duration of a song - is simply second to none.

Anyway, my Animenz live tour 2016 in China was a big success and I had a wonderful time there: meeting up with all the fans in china, sightseeing in 9 different Chinese cities, eating excellent food - it was once in a lifetime experience.

Therefore, once again:
Thank you for your support and for your love for Anime music!
I wouldn't have come this far without you.

Animenz
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Piano arrangement by Animenz

Songs used in this piano medley:
00:00 Introduction
01:36 Butter-Fly (Digimon S1 OP1)
03:57 Brave heart (Digimon evolution theme)
05:43 Target ~Akai Shougeki~ (Digimon S2 OP1)
07:04 Break up! (Digimon evolution theme)

Anime: Digimon Adventure (1999) / Digimon Adventure 2
Published by: NEC Interchannel
Composed by: Chiwata Hidenori
Performed by: Wada Kouji

[Animenzzz]

Wow, thank you everyone for your warm welcome!
Please continue making Youtube a worthwhile place by giving your support to the countless video creators!
I will miss this place as well, but one year is over very quickly （´・ω・｀）
See you then!

[robogamerhd]

I rarely see any digimon fans now, watching this video gives me hope for digimon again.

[TehIshter]

I miss you here on YouTube ;_; Congrats on all the success btw!!~

[SadBirbHours]

A part of my childhood died along with Kouji Wada.

[marcuscersy]

The digimon fanbase is amazing.

Everyone joined together to wave along to Butterfly, waving glow sticks and even their mobile phones in rythym to the unbelievable talent displayed here, and they kept going when Brave Heart started.

I am glad to be a part of this community, I just wish I could have been there to hear it myself

[sukmagigih]

Try not to cry...

Lay



Cry a

*Miss my childhood

[LucasGottfried]

This made me tear up... Unbelievable performance! So many memories :)
Lovely to see the crowd waving their phones ^^ My full respect for making it that far!
You are a huge inspiration and a fully deserved pianist!

[lightningzoldyck]

R.I.P. Kouji Wada, this was such a nostalgic ride, Great stuff!

[WatasyWahyo]

Can I say that I'm crying and I'm dying because this is so awesome and I have so many memories???

Or am I too late? 😥😥

[Shalamas]

Wow, das war echt krass gut gespielt :D Ach ja, ich finde es echt cool wie du dir bei jedem Video so viel Mühe mit der Beschreibung gibst...sieht man echt selten :3

[DoppelBro]

American dub watchers wont know the best song in the concert

[allenwalker]

Yo animenz you are really an inspiration for me. What you do is so good and i love it.

Just wanna say hi from belgium. (that's why i dont have a good english =(( )

[dimitri_ra]

watching this during my break time at work, i break down to tears in the first 3 seconds when he started playing and my boss comes by ask me what happen and i showed him this video and he knows the feels when he heard the music as well haha

[animenerd]

When you can't afford a glow stick, use your flashlight on your phone

[sydsquidpotter]

did anyone else think that the way the phone flashlights shined on the piano looked so pretty?

[Mihawk-myvn]

Never watched Digimon, but you played so beautiful that i loved the songs instantly.

[zengarang]

I literally jumped out of my seat when I saw this pop up in my notification drawer.

Congrats on 800k bro! Good luck on your studies, and I await your next spontaneous upload :D

[rahmatkurnianto]

sometimes I remember so happy I was, when I was a child. every Sunday morning trying to get up just to wait for watching digimon.

04:00 this feel moment when taichi and friend come back from the lose
01:35 this feel moment when i shoud leave taichi and friend at last episode

i can't imagine how art director, strory writer, music composer, all crue digimon film that's era can make a good film like that

[antoniomf]

I've seem it several times and still got emotional. I'm waiting the Digimon last movie in 21 Feb 2020 !

[Paints]

*Hello! I think I can speak for everyone when I say yes, we did miss you!*