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Founded in 2022, Ikigai Live!! is a North Carolina-based cosplay idol group that has a passion for bringing characters to life through dance and skit performances. While they primarily tend to focus on idol media such as Project Sekai or Love Live, they also love branching out into non-idol related anime and video games.
While they love performing onstage just for fun, they also love to compete in cosplay competitions at various conventions. Over three years of competing, they have won several major awards, including Best in Show at Animazement 2025 and Nekocon 2025. Additionally, they hosted the very first Idol Fest at Queen City Anime Con back in 2023, and are so excited to be returning this year!
Ikigai Live!!
Melding elements of city pop, funk, disco, and contemporary pop into a signature sound, Raspberry Pie melodies and grooves are made to move your feet, while their lyrics carry a sense of story telling not often found in dance music. Gambling loss in Japan and buying a $50 couch off of Craigslist have never sounded so funky and so compelling.
They've headlined at several notable cons across the US, including Florida Supercon in Miami, PAX East in Boston, PAX West in Seattle, and Dragon Con in Atlanta. They’ve opened for The Living Tombstone on 3 separate occasions, and have toured nationally to great success.
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The Hell Hotel Show is brought to you by the artistic team of The Jessica Nova and Cherry Bonbon Burlesque. With their powers combined they bring over 35 years of performance background in theater, burlesque, SFX Makeup and more! With guaranteed ethical working standards for their team members and bringing one of a kind entertainment to audiences at all kinds of conventions and fan driven events.
The Hell Hotel prides themselves on creating more than a variety show, but to create shows geared towards nerds through the love of fandom. Decades of theatre and performance experience allows them to craft shows that bring characters to life through outstanding
costumes, hilarious jokes, polished dance sequences and professionalism both on and off stage.
Their shows highlight the cast’s dedication to bringing these characters to life
authentically as to respect the source material and the dedicated fandom. The team prides themselves on the high end costume creation and dance choreography that our professionally trained theater performers bring.
THE HELL HOTEL SHOW
SHADOW REALM
Every great anime comes equipped with a soundtrack that transforms a story once told on paper, to a jaw-dropping, theatrical production. Capturing that vision with a live band was no easy task, but after forming a supergroup of musicians who were ready to dedicate their hearts to the cause, the end result has become a spectacle incomparable to anything that has come before. Joined by a rotating set of vocalists uniquely picked to pay homage to each original work, Shadow Realm is an anime tribute band that exists to bring the music from the stories we love to life in a live-concert setting.