Tales of Festival 2026 will have live performances by Hanako Oku and DEEN
Bandai Namco has confirmed that Tales of Festival 2026, which is set to run at Yokohama Buntai on July 4-5, will have live performances by artistes that contributed theme songs to the series. The first two confirmed in this announcement are Hanako Oku and DEEN.
Hanako Oku will perform on the first day on Saturday, July 4. She performed both the opening and ending theme songs of Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X.
- Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X opening theme - Garasu no Hana (Glass Flower)
- Tales of Phantasia: Narikiri Dungeon X ending theme - rebirth
Meanwhile, DEEN will appear on the second day on Sunday, July 5. The group had notably contributed theme songs to multiple Tales Of entries:
- Tales of Destiny theme song - Yume de aru you ni (Let it be a Dream)
- Tales of Hearts theme song - Eien no Ashita (Eternal Tomorrow)
- Tales of the Rays: Fairies' Requiem theme song - Mirai kara no Hikari (Light from the Future)
For the record, Bandai Namco had also previously revealed the list of Japanese voice actors who will appear in this festival via four separate batches from February to April. Barring any possible future changes, here is the list of voice actors sorted by their appearance dates:
Both Days
- Masaya Onosaka (Zelos Wilder in Tales of Symphonia) - General host
- Katsuyuki Konishi (Lloyd Irving in Tales of Symphonia)
- Chihiro Suzuki (Luke fon Fabre in Tales of the Abyss)
Saturday, July 4 only
- Misato Fukuen (Edna in Tales of Zestiria) - Sub-host
- Junko Minaguchi (Farah Oersted in Tales of Eternia)
- Soichiro Hoshi (Keele Zeibel in Tales of Eternia)
- Motoki Takaki (Caius Qualls in Tales of the Tempest)
- Takumi Yamazaki (Tilkis Barone in Tales of the Tempest)
- Mitsuki Saiga (Lukius in Tales of the Tempest)
- Kohsuke Toriumi (Yuri Lowell in Tales of Vesperia)
- Rika Morinaga (Rita in Tales of Vesperia)
- Eiji Takemoto (Raven in Tales of Vesperia)
- Ryohei Kimura (Sorey in Tales of Zestiria)
Sunday, July 5 only
- Azumi Asakura (Laphicet in Tales of Berseria) - Sub-host
- Tsubasa Yonaga (Jude Mathis in Tales of Xillia)
- Riku Kondo (Ludger Will Kresnik in Tales of Xillia 2)
- Ryotaro Okiayu (Gaius in Tales of Xillia 2)
- Rina Sato (Velvet Crowe in Tales of Berseria)
- Takuya Sato (Alphen in Tales of Arise)
- Shino Shimoji (Shionne in Tales of Arise)
- Haruna Ikezawa (Kisara in Tales of Arise)
- Yasuyuki Kase (Dohalim in Tales of Arise)