Belle Project Layra Debut Song Released With Vocals By Five Singers
The five singers rotate through the same character by day rather than sharing one recorded voice, which makes the live show's casting the actual product and puts the vocal recording on the same release calendar as the stage run.
Key Facts
- The song "Watashi wa LAYRA" was released digitally on Wednesday, September 16, 2026.
- TeddyLoid produced "Watashi wa LAYRA" and wrote its lyrics and music with Ryota Saito.
- miwa, Natsumi Konomi, Konomi Suzuki, Maria Miki, and ASCA sing "Watashi wa LAYRA."
- The animmersive live show "Belle - PROJECT LAYRA -" runs from Saturday, October 10 to Sunday, November 15, 2026, at MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives Box1000.
- The show is set five years after Mamoru Hosoda's film "Belle," with the five performers alternating by day as LAYRA and her real-world origin Kotomi.
Reporting from 3 sources: ASCII.jp, KAI-YOU, PANORA.
The debut song "Watashi wa LAYRA" by the virtual artist LAYRA was released digitally on Wednesday, September 16. TeddyLoid produced the track and wrote its lyrics and music with music creator Ryota Saito, with TeddyLoid handling arrangement. Five singers share vocal duties: miwa, Natsumi Konomi, Konomi Suzuki, Maria Miki, and ASCA. The song is the opening number for the animmersive live show "Belle - PROJECT LAYRA -," which runs from Saturday, October 10 to Sunday, November 15 at MoN Takanawa: The Museum of Narratives Box1000 in Takanawa, Tokyo. The show is a spin-off story set five years after Mamoru Hosoda's film "Belle." In it, Hiro-chan <As>, who produced the diva Belle in the film, finds a new artist, LAYRA, in the virtual world <U> and launches her as a new diva. The five performers alternate by day as LAYRA and as Kotomi, her real-world origin. A music video combining footage from the film with 3DCG also released at 18:00.
Mika Pikazo, who designed LAYRA, also drew the jacket illustration and an original visual showing the new diva singing before the crowd at Utopia. The visual and a preview of the show's opening footage were both revealed alongside the song. TeddyLoid is the show's music director, and the opening's background music is his homage to the film's score.
Each of the five singers recorded a separate music video for the track, posted to YouTube.
- miwa version
- Kon Natsumi version
- Suzuki Konomi version
- Miki Maria version
- ASCA version
The venue, MoN Takanawa Box1000, covers about 1,000 square meters across B3F to B1F. Its stage LEDs total 189 square meters and are split across three surfaces, including panels to the left and right of the seats. A system called DOTIMAGE moves individual LED sources up and down to suggest depth. The space can be set as an all-seated hall or a standing live house, so each performance can differ. In the story, the same room is the Utopia festival site, and the audience attends as one of the 6 billion people watching LAYRA sing.
TeddyLoid said the sound carries LAYRA's "delicacy and conflict" and the shift of her urge to sing into "great energy." Mika Pikazo said she wanted LAYRA's feeling of wanting to sing to overflow "as bursting color." Tickets are handled through Lawson Ticket, and merchandise tied to the visual is planned. Studio Chizu cooperates on the production.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 3 cited sources below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.