LiSA played the Troxy in east London on Tuesday 22 September 2026. It was 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.
The European leg ran Milan (15 September), Düsseldorf (17 September), Paris (20 September) and then London, so the Troxy got the show at full strength after three European nights. Below: the 21 songs she played in London, how they compare with the Budokan anniversary set, and what each one means.
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 what LiSA played at the Troxy, as logged by fans on setlist.fm. She was on stage from about 8:35pm to 10:30pm.
- DECOTORA15
- Datte Atashi no Hero.
- Catch the Moment
- oath sign
- SWEET MAGIC
- Moonlight Densetsu (the Sailor Moon theme, originally sung by DALI)
- DOCTOR
- Akeboshi
- Zankokuna Yoru ni Kagayake
- Homura
- HELLO WORLD
- Black Box
- REALiZE
- QUEEN
- ADAMAS
- ReawakeR
- Gurenge
Encore:
- Azuki Arai
- PATCH WALK
- crossing field
- Gurenge (anime opening version)
London got Homura, which she had left out of the Budokan show, a Sailor Moon cover and Gurenge twice, once to close the main set and again in its anime opening version to end the night. A fan was brought up to sit on the stage during DOCTOR.
The Budokan anniversary setlist
This is the anniversary tour setlist as played at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo in April 2026, the show the whole tour was 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 arrived in the first half of the night. The closing stretch and the three song encore carried her newest material.
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. In London it closed the main set, then came back in its anime opening version to end 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, but she brought it back for her first UK crowd, tenth in the London set.
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. In London it came in the encore, the oldest song many people at the Troxy knew 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 was the deep cut in the Budokan 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 opened at 7pm, the show was for over 14s only, and LiSA played for just under two hours, from about 8:35pm to 10:30pm.
It was 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.
FAQs
How long was LiSA’s London concert?
Just under two hours: 21 songs including a four song encore, from about 8:35pm to 10:30pm.
Did LiSA play Gurenge in London?
Yes, twice. It closed the main set, and its anime opening version ended the encore.
Did LiSA play Homura at the Troxy?
Yes. The Demon Slayer: Mugen Train theme was tenth in the London set, though it was left out of the Budokan anniversary show.
What cover did LiSA sing in London?
Moonlight Densetsu, the Sailor Moon theme originally sung by DALI.
