WOLF HOWL HARMONY Member Just Played His First Homecoming Show to 30,000 People at Anime Friends

Anime Friends 2026

Date: 02 and 05 July

Venue: São Paulo

WOLF HOWL HARMONY‘s member  GHEE spent part of his childhood in São Paulo. Years later, he came back – this time on stage, and for the first time performing there in front of a crowd that had been messaging him online for years without ever getting to see him in person.

But that changed two weeks ago at Anime Friends 2026.

WOLF HOWL HARMONY’s Brazil debut wasn’t just a new market for the group. For GHEE, it was the closest thing to a homecoming a live show can be. “Coming back to Brazil and standing on that stage meant more to me than I can really explain,” he says. “I got to reconnect with the local LOVERED community in person for the first time, and it felt like paying something back to my family here.”

The set opened hard with “BAKUON –爆音–” and “Gachi Funk“, both built on Brazilian funk influences, before the group broke into Portuguese greetings and bilingual chat about their favourite anime.

HIROTO, who grew up watching Brazilian football, says the trip gave that admiration somewhere to land: “Being here in person, feeling how warmly people welcomed us, made that admiration real. This is a connection I want to keep building outward.”

When the group moved into acapella snippets of Dragon Ball and Naruto songs, the crowd picked them up instantly, one of several moments where the show turned into a full singalong.

Then came “PLEASE“, a new track built around the group’s own path, four people carrying each other through doubt and hope in equal measure. It opens on a four-part acapella, and when that hit live, the noise in the room dropped to near silence before building back into something bigger.

SUZUKI calls it one of the best shows the group has played: “People who’d never heard our music before were moving to it immediately, and that’s when I really understood what people mean when they say music has no borders.”

Throughout the set, the group wove in dance styles currently trending in Brazil, a deliberate nod to local culture that closed the distance with the crowd rather than performing at them.

The group also performed their latest single “ココニイル Kokoniiru“, the ending theme for the anime Iwamoto-senpai no Suisen, sung entirely in Japanese. The crowd sang every word back anyway, not because it was unexpected, but because that’s what a fanbase already invested in this music does when the artist finally shows up in person.

RYOJI says the connection was already there before he even stepped on stage: “I actually felt confident even before stepping on stage, because GHEE had been building a connection with fans in Brazil online, and we’d felt that connection too. Once I was actually up there, the energy and love went far beyond what I imagined. A lot of people were discovering us for the first time, and I already know I want to come back.”

The encore closed on “LOVE RED“, the song the group’s fanbase takes its name from, one they’ve performed since before they even debuted. One local media attendee at the show said WOLF HOWL HARMONY has carved out something genuinely distinct, not just within J-pop but among Asian artists more broadly, and suggested a solo Brazil tour, or a wider Latin America run, might not be far off.

Anime Friends 2026 Setlist

1. BAKUON -爆音-
2. Gachi Funk
3. Frozen Butterfly
4. HIGHWAY (BALLISTIK BOYZ Cover)
5. PLEASE
6. Love Triangle
7. ピアス (Piercing)
8. ココニイル (Kokoni Iru)
9. One minute
10. Marmalade
11. You&I
12. Sugar Honey
13. Bossa Bosa
14. ROLLIN’ STONES
15. LOVE RED
16. Gachi Funk (Encore)

About WOLF HOWL HARMONY

A four-member vocal and rap group consisting of GHEE and HIROTO, finalists of “iCON Z – Dreams For Children,” LDH’s largest-ever audition with 48,000 participants, joined by RYOJI and SUZUKI, who joined from iCON Z’s second chapter and are also active as chorus group DEEP SQUAD. The name WOLF HOWL HARMONY comes from the idea that “members whose life stories overlapped, each carrying a lone-wolf-like melancholy, came together as if by fate.”

Beyond activities within Japan, the group has also been active energetically in Thailand since last year, and in July 2025 won the Best Boy Group award at “ASIA TOP AWARDS,” an international award event honouring Asian entertainment and culture.

Since their debut, the total number of streams for their songs has surpassed 65 million. They are a new-generation group active globally, armed with exceptional vocal ability and rap skill.