Name: 劇場版 YOASOBI 5th ANNIVERSARY DOME LIVE 2024 “超現実”
Director: Junichi Hirayama

YOASOBI has put its Tokyo Dome night on record. The duo of producer Ayase and singer ikura has released the full concert from Chō-genjitsu (超現実, “surrealism”), the fifth-anniversary show that took them into domes for the first time, as a digital live album that runs from the opening video to the last encore. Nearly two hours of songs built from stories now come with a stadium crowd under them.

For a duo that started out setting online fiction to music, the dome shows were a change of scale. YOASOBI played two nights at Kyocera Dome Osaka and two at Tokyo Dome, a venue Billboard Japan’s review called the place they had long aspired to, and the album takes its recording from the Tokyo leg.

The tracklist keeps the Tokyo running order. It opens with ‘Opening’, the video piece that stitched together footage from earlier YOASOBI concerts before a voice welcomed the crowd “to the surreal world”, and goes straight into ‘Seventeen’, ‘Shukufuku’ and ‘Kaibutsu’. ‘Idol’, the Oshi no Ko theme that topped Billboard’s Global Excl. US chart, sits mid-set between ‘Sangenshoku’ and ‘Monotone’, the slot it held in Tokyo; in Osaka it came near the end.

Audio cannot carry the staging: the claws and eyes of a giant monster breaking through the LED screens, the pillars of fire, ‘Loveletter’ sung from a hot-air balloon, ‘Adventure’ performed in carts that rolled off the stage, child dancers joining for ‘Tsubame’. What the record does keep is the second half’s quieter turns, including ‘Yūsha’, the Frieren theme, an a cappella take on ‘Ano Yume o Nazotte’ and a track titled ‘Band Session’ given over to the live players.

The encore is where the album ends up most personal. ikura picks up an electric guitar for ‘Butai ni Tatte’, and the night closes on ‘Yoru ni Kakeru’, the debut single that started YOASOBI. The duo framed the Chō-genjitsu title as a look back at five years that had felt unreal to them, and as a promise to bring something unusual into the present.

The tour opened at Kyocera Dome Osaka on October 26 and 27, 2024, and finished at Tokyo Dome on November 9 and 10, with 170,000 people across the four shows, according to Nikkan Sports. A concert film of the final Tokyo show, directed by Junichi Hirayama, reached Japanese cinemas on February 21, 2025. The live album, released on November 4, 2026 under the full title YOASOBI 5th ANNIVERSARY DOME LIVE 2024 “超現実” at TOKYO DOME, has 27 tracks and runs about 110 minutes.

It lands three weeks after ‘Sakihokore’, YOASOBI’s theme for NHK’s morning drama Blossom, and leaves the dome era on the shelf next to THE BOOK for, the fourth EP in the duo’s literary series.

Tags: J-pop, japanese music, YOASOBI, live album, Tokyo Dome