It's been a couple of years since we've seen YOASOBI in America but they're going on one heck of a tour, and aiming for much higher heights. Their first foray into America led them to Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, and Boston.

In late 2025, they announced a ten-city dome and stadium tour going around Japan and Asia. Tokyo, Osaka, Taipei, Hong Kong, Seoul, and others. The usual big cities to hit. I felt a little left out over here in America and considered planning on hitting up Tokyo or Osaka (I still might). Thankfully, the group announced a US tour that would include more cities than before and at much bigger venues as part of the "Never Ending Stories" tour. It's been a while since I've been able to see them live due to their meteoric popularity, but I was able to snag tickets to their fifth anniversary concert at the Kyocera Dome in Osaka back in 2024.

The tour starts off at the Lollapalooza festival in Chicago before going east to Boston and New York again. They then wind westward and will hit up Hamilton, ON (Canada), and Seattle. They'll be making their return to the San Francisco Bay Area by playing at Oakland Arena. The final show of the tour will be at Los Angeles' Hollywood Bowl.

For those of you counting, these are all venues that hold between 17000 to 20000 people. Much, much bigger than the venues from 2024, which were all a quarter or less of these ones.

For those of you not familiar with YOASOBI, the core members are Ayase and ikura. They make stories into music, and by that I mean they write music in response to literary works. For their anime and manga songs, they write something that fits the theme of whatever that anime or manga is. Expect them to go hard with "Idol," "Yoru ni Kakeru," "Yuusha," and as many other anime songs that they can pack into the setlist. Between 2024 and now they've added "Watch Me!" from Witch Watch, "Adrena" and "Baby" from Hana-Kimi, and "Orion" from Overwatch, among many other songs.

You'll note the American dates are much more compressed compared to Japan, and that's because Japan heavily favors weekends for their big shows. If a big show is on a weekday, it's probably because it is a holiday. And as for the Asia shows, they have yet to be announced, but it'll be sometime in 2027.

I'm ready to crack some of those ultra-orange glowsticks once more.

You can check out our previous coverage from their show at The Shrine HERE.

8/2 Chicago, IL - Lollapalooza (festival)
8/4 Boston, MA - TD Garden
8/6 Brooklyn, NY - Barclays Center
8/8 Hamilton, ON (CA) - TD Coliseum
8/12 Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena
8/14 Oakland, CA - Oakland Arena
8/16 Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Bowl

10/24-25 Osaka, JP - Kyocera Dome
11/7-8 Aichi, JP - Bantelin Dome Nagoya
11/14-15 Hokkaido, JP - Yamato House Premist Dome
11/28-29 Fukuoka, JP - Mizuho PayPay Dome
12/5-6 Tokyo, JP - Tokyo Dome