The proceeds from the fundraiser will help finance a special Tokyo Girls' Style TV documentary in San Francisco highlighting their debut U.S. appearance with full of Sunflowers at Union Square in San Francisco in addition to interviews and other special J-POP SUMMIT Festival appearances. The documentary will be co-produced with SPACE SHOWER TV.
For the documentary, the group will be distributing replica sunflowers to concertgoers attending their concert on Saturday evening and will ask the audience to wave them in concert when they perform the song "Himawari to Hoshikuzu" (lit. Sunflowers and Stardust). Their hope is to envelope the entire area with a sea of sunflowers and capture the grand spectacle on video.
Pledge "Seeds" start at $19.00 and Tokyo Girls' Style plans to thank their contributors with a variety of premium items including behind the scenes performance, backstage photos, DVDs of the San Francisco concert, autographed goods and more. With only eight days remaining in the campaign, the group has currently received 3,100,000 seeds with a grand goal of $4,000,000.00. Although the top two tiers are currently sold out, there is still plenty of time to donate for their middle tier of $293 which includes five candid photos of the cute idols along with an invitation into the seating lottery for the after meeting event, private mini concert and handshake/photo event.
For more information on the campaign, please visit: http://tokyogirlsupdate.com/crowd/en/single.php?project_id=286
For more information on the group, visit: http://tokyogirlsstyle.jp/tokyogirlsstyle_en
For music videos visit: http://www.youtube.com/user/TokyoGirlsStyle
About TOKYO GIRLS' STYLE
"We want to express the joy of music by singing and dancing!"
The group was formed on Jan. 1st, 2010. 5-membered dance&vocal girls group from Avex, which hasn't produced girls group for a long while, and consisting members are Ayano Konishi, Miyu Yamabe, Hitomi Arai, Yuri Nakae, and Mei Shouji. They had a lot of experiences, and aim to become a group which is active not only in Japan but also in the entire Asian region.
They started performing periodic concerts twice a month, and their main activity is live concerts; their 1st Japan Tour was held in May, 2011. They released the 1st album. In October, the tickets of their first hall concert in Nakano Sun Plaza on December 24, 2011 were sold out. Not only their live performance earns popularity, but also they get high evaluation. For example, their 2nd album release "Limited addiction" released in Mar 2012 was nominated for the record shop grand prix. On Apr 30, 2012, they held the 2nd JAPAN TOUR in six cities across Japan. At their final live on May 20 in Hibiya open-air concert hall, they announced in front of 3,000 people that they would hold Nippon Budokan performance. They succeeded in it on Dec 22 last year and they established a record of the youngest girls' group of Nippon Budokan performance since their average age was 15.
Their 11th single "ROAD TO BUDOKAN 2012 ~ Bad Flower ~" was at the 4th of Oricon weekly ranking. From this, three singles to the 13th single "Get The Star / Last Forever", ranked in Top 10 in series. They held the 3rd JAPAN TOUR in Zepp halls from Apr of 2013. Furthermore, they started their first crown TV programs in the BS Fuji. The linked lives were held at Kobe International Hall and Shibuya Public Hall. They received a good reputation with their performance including illusions, which was different from the past.
They held their performance in Nippon Budokan on December 22 of the second consecutive year, 2013! In Budokan, they showed a more splendid and better stage than the previous year. In their 5th year of 2014, they will held their 4th national tour "Royal Mirrorball Discotheque"! They will do the performance with the remix sound source different from before! They go forward with an activity concept referred to as "We will tell you the joy of music with singing and dancing"! On the production side, they have received songs by Rock Musician and LUNA SEA bassist J, Koide Yusuke from BaseBallBear who wrote the music and lyrics for a song, and with additional contributions from Hachioji P and Kikuo from VOCALOP, they have broadened their range in music, as well as additional music activities as solo members features as vocals in Maltine Girls Wave etc.
And finally with already two movies in 2014, casting all 5 members ( A Film Directed by Yamato Yuki "Your dream in 5 seconds" In Theaters from March 8th~? A True Horror Film "Ghost Stories at School - Curses of Kotodana" In Theaters from May 23rd) new challenges have been presented and their activities besides music is also gathering a lot of buzz and attention.
Also one of their main concepts to enter the Asian market has been fulfilled with their album released in Taipei and Hongkong. Ranking in the TOP 10 J-POP chart in France, and with additional overseas activities planned for this year, they will strive to become a group that performs from Asia to all over the world!
