{"rewrite":{"id":"r_41720b50d8c6574104e1a8a2","clusterId":"c_f544d27021b7c9d904b178a9","slug":"fns-music-festival-adds-chiikawa-and-puppet-sunsun-to-2026-lineup","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"FNS Music Festival Adds Chiikawa and Puppet Sunsun to 2026 Lineup","summary":"The 2026 FNS Music Festival announced a first wave of 36 artists, with Chiikawa the Movie and Puppet Sunsun set to appear. The first night airs Wednesday, December 2, 2026, and the second night Wednesday, December 9, hosted by Masaki Aiba. Chiikawa the Movie performs three songs on night one, including \"Kyou no Hi wa Sayounara\" and \"Usagi Rap / Usagi, Momonga, Ningyo.\" Snow Man, M!LK, Hey! Say! JUMP, Naniwa Danshi, BABYMONSTER, and CORTIS are also named.","whyItMatters":"The festival is folding a hit film's in-story songs and a social-media character act into a year-end music broadcast, which puts anime-adjacent material on the same stage as the idol and K-pop acts that carry the lineup.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe first night\u0026#39;s Chiikawa segment draws on \u0026#34;Chiikawa the Movie: The Secret of the Mermaid Island,\u0026#34; which has passed 18.66 billion yen in box office revenue and 12.77 million admissions within 101 days of release, as of November 1. Three songs are scheduled from the film.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePuppet Sunsun, with roughly 4 million total social media followers, appears on the second night. On last winter\u0026#39;s broadcast the character performed a special version of the debut song \u0026#34;Toteto\u0026#34; and ran the \u0026#34;Sunsun Challenge\u0026#34; with other artists.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Chiikawa the Movie gets three songs on FNS night one, including a Usagi rap. Puppet Sunsun shares the bill with Snow Man and Hey! Say! JUMP, so the festival is treating character acts as artists, not mascots.","twitterPost":"Chiikawa the Movie gets three songs on FNS night one, one of them a Usagi rap. Puppet Sunsun shares the bill with Snow Man. Character acts are booked as artists now.","threadsPost":"Chiikawa the Movie performs three songs on FNS night one, including \"Usagi Rap / Usagi, Momonga, Ningyo.\" Puppet Sunsun is on the same bill as Snow Man and Hey! Say! JUMP. The festival is slotting character acts into artist sets, not mascot cameos.","newsletterBlurb":"The 2026 FNS Music Festival announced a first wave of 36 artists, with Chiikawa the Movie performing three songs from The Secret of the Mermaid Island on the December 2 first night. Puppet Sunsun takes the December 9 second night. Masaki Aiba hosts both broadcasts.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Anime Anime\",\"url\":\"https://animeanime.jp/article/2026/11/04/104463.html\",\"title\":\"\\\"Chiikawa\\\" and \\\"Puppet Sunsun\\\" Are Coming to the FNS Music Festival!! 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