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Mana-produced cellist/vocalist Wakeshima Kanon is pairing up with An Cafe bassist Kanon to form a musical unit, kanon×kanon, to sing the second opening theme song for the horror animation Shiki, called "Calendula Requiem" (カレンデュラレクイエム). The group has been dubbed a "genius musical unit from the 2.5 dimension" in the press release, this apparently being a fictional separate pocket of spacetime (whatever that means). The press release also describes the group as having a sound based around Japanese-ness. Wakeshima left a note at her official site, saying that she was happily surprised by the offer, since Shiki was an anime she was watching a lot of recently.

The song will debut as the opening theme song on the 14th of October, following Buck-Tick's song "Kuchizuke". Buck-Tick will be supplying the new ending theme song for the anime, "Gekki Reijin." "Calendula Requiem" will be released as a single on 17th of November, along with the B-sides "The Dollhouse" (ザ ドールハウス) and "Umigame Soup" (ウミガメスープ Sea Turtle Soup). Shiki (屍鬼 Corpse Demon) is an anime based around the 1998 horror story by author Ono Fuyumi, which was adapted into a serialised manga by Fujisaki Ryū in 2007. The anime began airing in July 2010, and features voice acting from such people as Uchiyama Kōki, Ōkawa Tōru, Tomatsu Haruka and Gackt. Wakeshima Kanon just released her second album, Shōjojikake no Libretto ~Lolitawork Libretto in July in both Europe and Japan. An Cafe's Kanon had been working as a member of the band until early 2010, when An Cafe went on hiatus.
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