was a Japanese mobile rhythm video game developed and published by Geechs (later Edia), in conjunction with Sanrio.
A successor to the original game was later developed by Now Production and published by Square Enix on March 12, 2020, on all mobile platforms with its service discontinued on November 30, 2022.
A manga adaptation of the first series began serialization in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine in July 2020.
Gameplay for the live section mode had the same elements from the original and inherits newer twists such as swipeable notes, the ability to adjust scrolling speed and a more traditional 5-note layout.
Players had to customize with specific buildings in order to gain sound dollars, the game's free currency.
The game also had a boss battle mode, which could be accessed through by finding a corrupted myummon in town and defeating it could earn players with more currency.
But on one fateful night, she gets sucked into the rhythm game she had been playing on her smartphone after receiving an item called "Strawberry Heart".
Cyan ends up in a new world called Midi City, a place where those who command music control everything.
As she saves the band from turning into dark monsters themselves, she returns to her human form, but retaining her cat ears and tail.
Set after the events of the first season, the intergalactic fleet led by the malevolent Queen of Darkness, Victorious, unleashed a devastating attack on Sound Planet in the future, causing total destruction of Midi City.
Upon its destruction, a mysterious band named Bud Virgin Logic appeared and performed a malevolent tune to the surviving denizens while Dagger Morse corrupts all the citizens, draining them of their sound energy and plunging the city into chaos and despair.
From the attack, only Ninjinriot survived and feared the worst scenario that would lead to the fall of the Sound Universe.
In present-day Midi City, Maple told the members of Plasmagica, ShinganCrimsonZ, and Criticrista that their recording label is holding a beneficiary concert to the people with somewhat positive reactions.
Though at the time of the concert, Plasmagica, despite not having Cyan is eager to perform, until Bud Virgin Logic appeared alongside Dagger Morse, who announced he will destroy the ones who defeated them.
At the same time in the Human World, Cyan Hijirikawa was stuck in a writer's block regarding composing a song for her band in the upcoming school festival.
With the entire world in a knife's edge, it's up to Cyan and her friends once again to stop Dagger and Victorious from destroying the Sound Universe.
Taking place somewhere after the second season, the story focuses on Howan, a Fox Myummon who lives in the countryside on Sound Planet.
Meanwhile, the guitarist Mashima Himeko is equally passionate about music but feels uncomfortable having been placed in a band with two other young artists, the bassist Delmin and the drummer Ruhuyu.
Fes A Live was developed by Now Production and published by Square-Enix in both iOS and Android devices on March 12, 2020.
[14][15][16] The series is directed by Takahiro Ikezoe and written by Touko Machida, with music composed by Yasuharu Takanashi, Funta7 and Rega Sound.
[21][22] Funimation released the first season on Blu-ray and DVD on December 6, 2016, in North America and on February 20, 2017, in the United Kingdom.
[35][36] Takahiro Ikezoe and Touko Machida both return to direct and write the series alongside new director Daigo Yamagishi.
[38] Funimation licensed the series and will stream it on its website in North America and the British Isles, in Europe through Wakanim, and in Australia and New Zealand through AnimeLab.
[39] A manga adaptation of the first anime was written and illustrated by Takemaru Yokoshima and was serialized in Kadokawa Shoten's Young Ace magazine from July 4, 2020 to May 4, 2022.
Nick Creamer of Anime News Network gave the first episode a positive rating, stating that the "debut was a wild merry-go-round of delirious nonsense, but most of it was the enjoyable kind of nonsense" and "this was a wild and largely entertaining debut, but it also leaves me with plenty of reservations.
It's like a pinch of Di Gi Charat, a dash of The Idolmaster and a quart of Sanrio-style magical girls mixed together and thrown into a frenetic cyberpunk setting.