With Jpop & Anisong Diva May’n headlining the carnival, Animax Carnival has successfully kicked off at Sunway Pymarid on 16th of March. Cosplayers have prepped up with all their costumes for the carnival and fans of anime were all excited to join in the fun-filling two-day events as well. As May’n will be for performing on first day of the event, we were fortunate enough to sit down with the sweet, lovely star who’ve just arrived from Japan during a media interview. During the interview, she shared some of her favourite anime shows as well as her thoughts on the fans from all the world. Check out our exclusive interview with May’n here!
Q: What’s your favourite anime show?
Whatever anime I am involving in, I’ll always check it and watch it especially I would like to recommend Accel World.
Q: Are any other musicians you would like to work with?
There are a lot of singers and song-writers that I admired but at the moment, I really cannot say who, especially the name. But from now on, I would like to work with a lot of people.
Q: What’s your favourite food?
I think goreng pisang and kuih are really good!
Q: The documentary is the first film. Do you have any other plans in doing film aside from your initial documentary?
There’s nothing special but before that, I actually have another one which the name is Phonic Nation. Through that, I expressed my music but not specially in the future.
Q: You’ve been in the entertainment industry for the past century. So what’s your most rewarding moment so far?
Every time during my live performance, due to the power that I received from the fans, that‘s the moment I will feel very happy. And of course, last year I did a live performance at Fukuoka in Japan, that was also one of the happiest moment that I had.
Q: Do you know anything about anime in Malaysia?
I have not seen any anime in Malaysia but I would like to watch them soon!
Q: How many times have you been to Malaysia before and how do you feel in general for meeting your fans again?
This is the third time I’m visiting Malaysia. I came to Malaysia 3 years ago but I still remember how friendly and energetic the Malaysians were.
Q: Now that you’re doing a more rock genre music, are you planning to exploring any other genres?
As you know that, my main is rock . But for now, I am putting more efforts on dance music and R&B in my rock songs and I would like to create my own brand of music.
Q: How did you started the collaboration with the anime movies?
I started when I was invited to sing as a character in the anime movie ‘Marcross Frontier’ back in 2008.
Q: What is your current favourite anime show?
I’ve been watching anime since I was young and as I’ve mentioned just now, I actually watch every single anime shows I involved in. But recently, I am a big fan of the anime show ‘Shirokuma Cafe’ (Polar Bear’s Cafe).
Q: You mentioned about your own brand/genre of music. Can you elaborate better on how it sound like, perhaps in your own word?
Even now, although rock music is my main genre, but I am now trying my best as I would like to try other genre of music as well. Usually when I was singing the anime theme songs, I think of the main characters in the anime. But for my other non-anime theme songs, I would still think of how does the main characters feel because that is really important for me to sing it.
Q: Can you explain your new singles?
I am going to release my new single ‘Run Real Run’ on 8th of May this year and this song is actually a theme song for Japanese TV drama ‘Real Onigokko’.
Q: Is there a goal in life you are always keeping up with?
I would like to meet more fans and more people as well as making my own world tour. Last year, I had my world tour not only in Asia, but also in US and Europe. When I was in China, I had my concerts at 4 cities in China as well. So of course, I would like to come back to Malaysia to have my world tour in the future. It is not only in KL I wanted to perform at but also a few other cities in Malaysia.
