A friendship song that fires up the culture festival/school festival
Many students look forward to the annual cultural and school festivals! There are all kinds of events like food stalls, exhibits, and volunteer performances! In the midst of all that, you probably spend lots of time preparing for the festival and practicing your performance with your close friends, right? In this article, we’ll introduce plenty of friendship-themed songs that are perfect for cultural and school festivals! They’re great for band performances, dance routines, festival theme songs, or even background music for videos! Find the perfect track to color your wonderful memories with your dear friends.
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Friendship Songs to Rock Your School Festival (11–20)
Beautiful DaysHirai Dai

A gentle anthem that accompanies the making of precious adolescent memories.
Dai Hirai’s acoustic melodies and warm vocals give a push to young people taking their first steps toward the future.
Riding on a calm yet powerful sound, it sings of hope in the darkness, the value of seemingly uneventful days, and the anticipation of a new departure.
Since its release in March 2025, the piece has drawn attention with a confirmed tie-in to an animated production.
The album “Life is Beautiful,” which also features a collaboration with Taro Hakase, reached No.
1 overall on iTunes.
It’s a song that supports students preparing and practicing for their school festivals, resonating with their hearts and helping them reaffirm the bonds with their cherished friends.
GRADUATIONSBACK-ON

This is a song that gently encourages you as you say goodbye to close friends and take a step onto a new path.
Holding the memories of precious friends you spent time with, it captures the wavering feelings of young people heading toward their respective futures through an emotional melody and powerful guitar sound.
The track serves as the theme song for “Kamen Rider Gotchard GRADUATIONS,” released by BACK-ON in February 2025, and stands as a supportive anthem that stays close to the major life turning point of graduation.
It blends seamlessly with the worldview of the V-Cinext production, further heightening the work’s emotional impact.
It’s a perfect song for the grand finale of a school or cultural festival and for making memories with friends.
While feeling the importance of friendship and bonds, this song gives you the courage to take your first steps toward the future.
It starts here!DREAMS COME TRUE

A heartwarming friendship song from DREAMS COME TRUE, filled with hopeful cheers and a powerful anthem.
Released in January 2025, the track features an energetic, vibrant rhythm that blends ’80s disco sounds with modern Latin grooves.
It carries messages of friendship, the courage to take on challenges, and encouragement for those stepping into something new.
Created as the theme song for the “Osaka-Kansai Expo Commemorative ACN EXPO EKIDEN 2025,” this lively tune is perfect for singing and dancing with friends at school or cultural festivals.
It’s also ideal for choral or dance performances practiced with friends, as well as background music for video projects.
Enjoy this uplifting cheer song that adds color to cherished memories with your friends.
VertigoMAN WITH A MISSION

A powerful track that fuses a sharp perspective on society with an energetic sound.
It’s a song by MAN WITH A MISSION that sounds an alarm about the modern world.
It skillfully depicts the psychological state of people tossed about by an overload of information, expressing a dizzying sense of chaos.
Even amid instability, it carries a will to move forward, resonating deeply with listeners.
Included on the EP “XV e.p.” released on March 12, 2025, it was also chosen as the promotional song for the near-futuristic sci-fi mecha game “Mecha BREAK.” The music video presents a unique world through lighting that highlights the colors of the five members.
It’s a work that will motivate you as you strive toward a goal with your friends during school festival preparations.
Unable to become an adultkujira

This work gently sings of the importance of embracing loneliness and ordinariness.
Through images of the stillness of a moonless night and scattering light into the darkness, its warm lyrics, which handle a fragile heart with care, resonate deeply.
Kujira centers themes of self-acceptance and growth, beautifully expressing young people’s emotions within a unique worldview.
This piece serves as the theme song for the February 2025 film “My Senpai Is a Boy: Rain, Then Clear,” showcasing the delicate musicality honed on the albums “Until I Can Love Life” and “Vegetable Drawer.” It’s a wonderful song that stays close to the subtle feelings of youth—days at a school festival spent with dear friends, the anxiety and confusion felt while searching for one’s true self.
together; along with; bothWANIMA

This is a friendship song by WANIMA, the band that reignited the melodic hardcore boom and is now hugely popular in households across Japan.
It’s a gentle track packed with feelings for the friends who shared a precious youth together—cheering on a friend heading down a different path, gratitude for having met, and memories of the times you’ve shared.
Though the message is moving and sure to tug at your heart, the song itself is bright and catchy in true WANIMA fashion—an excellent pick that will get the crowd going when played by a band.
Friendship songs that hype up the mood at school festivals (21–30)
Live in the present.Saucy Dog

Saucy Dog’s “Ikiru no da (Live in the Present)” is a song about friends who have honed their skills together.
Released in 2022 as the band’s 15th digital single, it was written as the theme song for the 101st All Japan High School Soccer Tournament.
Set to a powerful rock sound, it expresses the strength to carry on with confidence, believing that “what we’ve done isn’t wrong.” With a minimal lineup of guitar/vocals, bass, and drums, it’s also a great pick for a setlist at a school culture festival or campus festival!



