In recent years, there's been one kind of content drawing a huge amount of attention, mostly within anime: the film score, or what the Japanese call “gekiban.”
Drawing a clear line around what counts as a “score” is tricky, but the term is generally used for all the music that plays alongside visual works—live-action films, animation, games, and so on.
In everyday conversation, most people are far more likely to call it BGM or a soundtrack.

Lately, though, the film score has been getting an incredible amount of love.
I'm talking about score concerts.
Starting around 2023, concerts built mainly around soundtrack music have been popping up practically every month. The number easily tops twenty a year.
Ticketed concert halls and live stages seating thousands sell out completely,
and there are even concerts at such absurd odds
that people keep getting shut out—even in the special advance lotteries you can only enter with bonus tickets bundled inside the soundtracks.

Among the events carving out this new stage for film scores, I've picked out a few upcoming
score concerts.
Most of them have already closed their applications, but it looks like there are still some
concerts where you can buy tickets, so if a score concert is happening for a work you love,
I really hope you'll go check it out in person.

Mobile Suit Gundam SEED FREEDOM
Cinema Concert
https://www.gundam-seed.net/freedom/event/

The score for the finale of this beloved series—made to be a new standard of Gundam for a new
generation, beginning with its TV broadcast—will be performed in a cinema concert format,
with the actual footage and dialogue.
The score for this work is handled by Toshihiko Sahashi, who has also worked on live-action projects like the Kamen Rider series.
The Gundam SEED series' score, both beautiful and fierce, is without a doubt one of Sahashi's signature works,
and there have long been more than a few fans hoping to hear those pieces performed live.
This concert finally came together thanks to the popularity of Gundam SEED FREEDOM and the recent boom in film-score appreciation.
Tickets are already sold out, so sadly there's no longer a way to enjoy the concert itself, but
even if you can't hear it live, the soundtrack—a lineup good enough to warrant a concert—is
an album packed with wonderful music, so please give it a listen at least once.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_lYUXEEpAqytYNiVFhPmg_oiXfNqdNvhQ8&si=zFHihGn_QPtgoIms


Image from the official site: https://www.gundam-seed.net/freedom/event/