LiSA signs off her first Europe tour with a sold-out London finale

LiSA brought her first Europe and UK tour to a close at London’s Troxy on September 22nd, capping four sold-out nights in Milan, Düsseldorf, Paris, and London. It was her first UK show and the last of 16 dates on LiVE is Smile Always～15～, her 15th-anniversary tour, which drew around 100,000 people across nine countries and regions.

The first fans had been outside the Troxy since mid-morning, some of them flown in from Japan and Hong Kong to follow the tour from city to city. Two giant inflatable strawberries flanked the stage as LiSA’s band walked on at 8.35pm, ten minutes ahead of schedule. She followed them out for ‘DECOTORA15’ from April’s album ‘LACE UP’ and went straight into ‘Datte Atashi no Hero.’ and ‘Catch the Moment’ before stopping to introduce herself to London.

Straight after ‘oath sign’, LiSA changed outfits in full view of the crowd, peeling off a layer to reveal a short white dress before strapping on an acoustic guitar for ‘SWEET MAGIC’. Her cover of the Sailor Moon theme ‘Moonlight Densetsu’ came next, then a ‘DOCTOR’ interlude saw her scour the crowd for a fan, who was led up by a doctor and nurse in costume and given a seat beside her for the song.

A second onstage change put her in a kimono for the Demon Slayer trio of ‘Akeboshi’, ‘Zankokuna Yoru ni Kagayake’, and ‘Homura’, the Mugen Train theme that won her the Japan Record Award in 2020. She then switched to a long white dress for ‘HELLO WORLD’, again on acoustic guitar.

In London she sang “Hello London” in place of the title line, a moment fans were still posting about days later. The song’s writer, Yasuha Kominami, said that seeing the singalong fill the Troxy left her overwhelmed.

After one more costume break came ‘Black Box’ and ‘REALiZE’, her theme for the Japanese release of Across the Spider-Verse, then a closing stretch of ‘QUEEN’, ‘ADAMAS’, ‘ReawakeR’, and ‘Gurenge’. ‘ReawakeR’, her Solo Leveling collaboration with Stray Kids’ Felix, had topped Billboard Japan’s chart of Japanese songs in the UK for six straight weeks last year, and Germany’s for ten.

The encore opened with ‘Azuki Arai’, then ‘PATCH WALK’ with its lyrics translated into English on the screen. For ‘crossing field’, the 2012 Sword Art Online theme that made her name overseas, LiSA left the stage and sang her way through the standing crowd, then climbed up to the circle to high-five fans in the seats. The screen followed her the whole way, with the lyrics in romaji so the room could sing along.

The band had already posed for their photo with the crowd when London got something no other city did. With the curfew closing in and the crew watching from the back of the stage, LiSA answered a second round of encore calls.

She teased a cappella snippets of ‘Homura’, ‘Gurenge’, ‘crossing field’, and ‘Ichiban no Takaramono’, which she recorded as the singing voice of Yui in Angel Beats! a year before her solo debut. She then closed the tour for good with one last ‘Gurenge’, cut to the length of the anime’s opening, before band introductions and a goodbye wrapped up a night that had stretched past two hours.

Counting her ‘Moonlight Densetsu’ cover, 13 of the 20 songs in the European set were anime themes, and Demon Slayer and Sword Art Online alone accounted for seven. Nine of the 20 were among the 18 Billboard Japan Hot 100 top-ten hits she had to her name by April, No. 1s ‘Homura’ and ‘Akeboshi’ among them.

The set also carried seven of her ten most-streamed songs on Spotify, including the top five, which have almost 1.3 billion plays between them. ‘Gurenge’ leads at more than 580 million, and in 2020 it was Spotify’s most-streamed song by a Japanese artist outside Japan, the same year LiSA topped the list for artists.

The European leg packed four countries into eight days, and each show was LiSA’s first concert in that country. Paris added a moment of its own when the crowd broke into the ‘Seven Nation Army’ chant and guitarist PABLO picked up the riff, turning it into a joke the band kept coming back to for the rest of the night.

The anniversary tour had opened at Nippon Budokan in April before heading to Kuala Lumpur, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Seoul over the summer, averaging just over 6000 people a night.

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Three days after London she released new song ‘Sophilia’, the theme for the film Matching TRUE LOVE. Back home, LiSA heads out later this month on LiVE is Smile Always～LACE UP～, a 19-date hall tour from October 18th through to January 2027. Midway through, she releases her first best-of album in around eight years, ‘LiSA BEST -LOUD-‘, on December 2nd, with 34 songs across two discs.

No return to Europe has been announced yet, but within hours of leaving the stage she had promised London, “I’ll come back to see you again”.

London setlist

1. ‘DECOTORA15’
2. ‘Datte Atashi no Hero.’
3. ‘Catch the Moment’
4. ‘oath sign’
5. ‘SWEET MAGIC’
6. ‘Moonlight Densetsu’
7. ‘DOCTOR’
8. ‘Akeboshi’
9. ‘Zankokuna Yoru ni Kagayake’
10. ‘Homura’
11. ‘HELLO WORLD’
12. ‘Black Box’
13. ‘REALiZE’
14. ‘QUEEN’
15. ‘ADAMAS’
16. ‘ReawakeR’
17. ‘Gurenge’

Encore

1. ‘Azuki Arai’
2. ‘PATCH WALK’
3. ‘crossing field’
4. ‘Gurenge’ (short version, second encore)

Watch the official London tour vlog below.

LiSA
LACE UP

Release Date: 15/04/2026
Label: Sony Music Labels inc.
Stream: Spotify | Apple Music
CD: Regular | Limited

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