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Music · Aug 23, 2026

RAIDOU vs. Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance Special Live: How to Watch Today's Concert

「RAIDOU VS 真・女神転生Ⅴ Vengeance スペシャルライブ」本日横浜ベイホールで開催、ニコニコ生放送で有料独占配信

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Today, ATLUS is putting two RPGs from opposite corners of its demon-summoning RPG lineage on the same stage in Yokohama — and if you can't make it to the venue, there's a confirmed, official way to watch from anywhere.

What Is the RAIDOU VS Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance Special Live?

The concert takes place today, August 23, 2026, at Yokohama Bay Hall, with doors opening at 3:00 PM and the show starting at 4:00 PM. The seven-piece band LaiD Back Devil performs battle-arranged, full-band versions of music from both RAIDOU Remastered: Kuzuryu Kikan Kitan and Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance, with Matsuzawa Neki hosting as MC and Atlus Sound Team composer Ryota Kozuka appearing as a guest.

Why Pair These Two Games?

The pairing isn't random. This concert doubles as a 20th-anniversary event for the RAIDOU series, ATLUS's demon-summoning detective RPG spin-off, and Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance is the current flagship entry carrying that same demon-negotiation DNA forward. Putting both soundtracks through the same battle-arrangement treatment, performed live by one band, frames Vengeance as part of a much longer lineage rather than a standalone release — a real draw for longtime Shin Megami Tensei fans who remember RAIDOU's original run.

Live Concert vs. Fan Meeting

The main concert and the Fan Meeting that follows are two separate, separately ticketed events at the same venue. The concert is the full-scale stage show described above. The Fan Meeting is a smaller, more intimate session held afterward the same evening, with doors at 6:30 PM and a 7:00 PM start — a format Japanese game-music live events frequently use to give especially dedicated attendees closer interaction with the MC and guests once the main show wraps.

How to Watch

For anyone not attending in Yokohama in person, the concert is being exclusively live-streamed on Niconico Live. The viewing ticket is paid, not free: ¥3,800 (tax included) plus a ¥400 service fee, with sales open since August 7. Whether the stream stays available afterward as an archived replay wasn't confirmed in the official sources checked for this article, so treat today's broadcast as your window to watch unless ATLUS or the official special site states otherwise.

What To Know

RAIDOU Remastered and Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance sharing one stage, in matching battle arrangements performed live by a full band, is a genuinely rare pairing for two ATLUS RPGs from different eras — and this is explicitly framed as a 20th-anniversary event for the RAIDOU series, giving longtime fans of ATLUS's darker, demon-summoning RPG lineage a reason to tune in even if they've never played Vengeance itself.

A same-day, separately-ticketed Fan Meeting held right after the main concert, at the same venue, is a common structure for Japanese game and anime-music live events — it lets a smaller group of especially dedicated attendees get a more intimate, interactive session with the MC and guests once the full-scale stage show wraps, rather than folding everything into one longer, less personal event.

What Fans Are Saying

  • "A RAIDOU 20th-anniversary live paired with Vengeance's battle arrangements is such a deep-cut treat for longtime SMT fans."
  • "Wish the stream were free, but ¥3,800 for a full live-band concert isn't unreasonable."
  • "LaiD Back Devil doing battle arrangements live is going to hit so much harder than the game audio."

Original Japanese

  • 「RAIDOU20周年でVengeanceと共演、SMTファンには嬉しい組み合わせ」
  • 「配信が有料なのは残念だけど、バンド生演奏なら納得」
  • 「LaiD Back Devilのバトルアレンジ生演奏、絶対熱い」

Easy Japanese

「RAIDOU」と「真・女神転生Ⅴ」のライブが今日、横浜で開催されます。バンドが生演奏をします。配信はニコニコ生放送で見られます(有料)。

Source: ATLUS official site / RAIDOU VS Shin Megami Tensei V Vengeance official special site (JVCKENWOOD Victor)