Surprisingly anisongs being covered by K-Pop artists has been going on for a long time. The famous K-Pop group BoA covered Fairy Tail’s 15th opening, “Masayume Chasing” and another well-known K-Pop group, 2PM, debuted in Japan with Ao No Exorcist’s 1st ending, “Take Off”. So K-Pop artists taking up projects with anime is definitely not a new thing.

But what’s different right now is how K-pop has gained a lot of popularity all over the world and we’re able to see more of its impact in anime because of that popularity. Think about it. Back when anime also wasn’t mainstream, we anime fans simply had to rely on whatever source of anime we had to watch. Not many were necessarily googling which artist covered which anime song. However, better late than never and we at Honey’s Anime definitely think that this is the golden age for K-Pop and anime to join hands and support one another.

K-Pop artists are arguably becoming even more popular than American artists. This joining of K-Pop artists with anime might actually be a good thing for people who are fans of both and sometimes for people who aren’t. Each fandom would ideally be able to support each other and introduce one another to the other fandom. Many K-Pop artists are huge anime fans as well and this would give them more creative projects to undertake. There’s also proof that many fans of Black Clover were introduced to different K-Pop artists through anime itself. However, life isn’t all that rosy. If anisongs and K-Pop did join hands, there is a possibility that Japanese artists or J-Pop artists themselves will be neglected—just like anime and K-Pop were once upon a time. However, we won’t let go of our favorite Japanese artists that easily!