LiSA plays the Troxy in east London on Tuesday 22 September 2026. It is the final night of LiVE is Smile Always~15~, the tour marking 15 years since her solo debut, and her first ever tour of Europe and the UK. Tickets are on sale through DICE.
The European leg runs Milan (15 September), Düsseldorf (17 September), Paris (20 September) and then London. Doors at the Troxy open at 7pm and the show is for over 14s only. London closes the tour, so the Troxy gets the show at full strength after three European nights. Below: the songs you’ll get to hear live, and what each one means in a 15th anniversary set.
LiSA London Setlist
Fifteen years, from Angel Beats! to the Troxy
LiSA, the Japanese singer behind the biggest Demon Slayer and Sword Art Online themes, started out in 2010 voicing Girls Dead Monster, the fictional band in the anime Angel Beats!. Her solo debut followed in 2011.
Since then her singles have opened Fate/Zero, Sword Art Online, The Irregular at Magic High School, Demon Slayer and Solo Leveling. Gurenge became the first single by a female artist to pass one million downloads on Oricon’s digital chart, and Homura won the Grand Prix at the 2020 Japan Record Awards, Japan’s top music honour. This tour compresses that whole run into one set.
If you are new to her catalogue, our guide to LiSA covers the full career; this piece is about the songs you will actually hear in London.
The LiSA London setlist
This is the anniversary tour setlist as played at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo in April 2026, the show this whole tour is built around.
- best day, best way
- Merry Hurry Berry
- Rising Hope
- oath sign
- crossing field
- träumerei
- Gurenge
- ADAMAS
- Akai Wana (who loves it?)
- HADASHi NO STEP
- BRiGHT FLiGHT
- Letters to ME
- PATCH WALK
- OPENiNG -LACE UP-
- DECOTORA15
- rapid life Syndrome
- QUEEN
- Shouted Serenade
- Catch the Moment
- Gyakkou Orchestra
Encore:
That is 23 songs covering the full 15 years. The anime themes are concentrated early: six of the first nine songs opened an anime, so the biggest singalongs arrive in the first half of the night. The closing stretch and the three song encore carry her newest material. Tickets for the London show are on DICE.
The stories behind the songs
The Demon Slayer era
Gurenge opened the Demon Slayer TV series in 2019 and turned LiSA from an anime scene favourite into a household name in Japan. It became the first single by a female artist to pass one million downloads on Oricon’s digital chart, she performed it on NHK’s Kōhaku Uta Gassen that New Year’s Eve, and an instrumental version was played at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics closing ceremony.
At the Budokan anniversary show it sat mid set, arriving without warning after a 2013 deep cut. Expect the loudest singalong of the night.
Homura is the one to watch for. The theme from Demon Slayer: Mugen Train (2020) spent three consecutive weeks at number one on the Oricon singles chart, the first song to do that in almost 13 years, and won the Grand Prix at the 62nd Japan Record Awards. It was not played at the Budokan anniversary show, which makes it the biggest open question of the London night: a 15th anniversary set in front of a first time UK crowd is exactly the occasion that tempts an artist to bring it back.
The Sword Art Online run
crossing field opened the original Sword Art Online in 2012 and is the song that introduced LiSA to international anime fans. For many people at the Troxy it will be the oldest song they know by heart.
ADAMAS opened Sword Art Online: Alicization in 2018. It was released as a double A side with Akai Wana (who loves it?), and both halves of that single featured in the Budokan set, a pairing that shows her range: one is a sprint, the other a strut.
Catch the Moment carried the 2017 film Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale. Slower to land than her openings, it has become one of her most requested live songs.
Where it started
oath sign, the opening of Fate/Zero, was her first solo single in November 2011 and reached the Oricon top five. Hearing it at the top of a 15th anniversary set is the point of the whole exercise: this is the song the entire career grew from.
best day, best way comes from the same first stretch of her solo career, and the Budokan show opened with it. Both songs date from the year after Angel Beats!, when she stepped out from behind a fictional band and had to prove a solo career was viable.
Milestones and deeper cuts
Rising Hope (2014) and Shouted Serenade (2024) bookend a single franchise: she opened The Irregular at Magic High School’s first season and returned for its third a decade later. Played back to back, they are a neat measure of how her sound has hardened over ten years.
träumerei is the deep cut in the predicted set: the 2013 opening of Day Break Illusion, a song casual fans may not recognise but long term fans treat as proof she is digging through the whole catalogue for this tour.
The rest of the set leans on her newest material, including the encore.
The night at the Troxy
The Troxy is at 490 Commercial Road, London E1 0HX, a short walk from Limehouse DLR. Doors open at 7pm and the venue lists the show as over 14s only, with a limit of eight tickets per person.
General admission started from around £94 on DICE, with VIP packages also listed; remaining availability is limited. The Japan leg ran to 23 songs including a three song encore, so plan for a full evening.
This is LiSA’s first ever UK show and the final date of the tour; the full background on the announcement is in our tour news piece. If you want to be in the room when the tour closes, tickets are on DICE.
FAQs
How long is a LiSA concert?
The Japan leg of this tour ran to 23 songs including the encore, which points to a set of roughly two hours.
What time do doors open at the Troxy for LiSA?
Doors open at 7pm on Tuesday 22 September 2026.
Will LiSA play Gurenge in London?
Almost certainly. Gurenge featured in the Japan leg of the anniversary tour and is her signature song.
Is there an age limit for the show?
Yes, the Troxy lists the show as over 14s only.
Is there a support act?
None has been announced.
