Yonezu and Hiroshi Nakajima formed a band Late Rabbit Edda, while attending the school culture festival.
[21] Yonezu released two self-produced albums in 2010: Hanataba to Suisō in February, and Official Orange in November.
As Ernst Eckman, they released a single song on MySpace, "Oborozuki to Sono Kōsatsu" (オボロヅキとその考察, "Crescent Moon and that Consideration").
[31] Yonezu was picked up as a major label artist under Universal Sigma and debuted in May 2013 with the single "Santa Maria".
[33] On October 28, 2013, Yonezu released his first Vocaloid song in two and a half years, "Donut Hole" (ドーナツホール, Dōnatsu Hōru), using a live band and the vocal Gumi.
Driven by hit singles "Uchiage Hanabi", "Loser", "Orion", and "Peace Sign", Bootleg won Album of the Year at the 60th Japan Record Awards and Yonezu rose to national stardom.
[38] On December 31, 2018, Yonezu made his live television debut on the 69th NHK Kōhaku Uta Gassen, an annual year-end extravaganza and one of Japan's most prestigious music programs.
When Billboard Japan published its year-end charts, "Uma to Shika" and "Machigaisagashi" ranked fifth and sixth respectively.
On August 7, 2020, he performed during Fortnite's Party Royale, singing songs from his latest album Stray Sheep (2020), which had been released two days prior.
[44] In 2022, Yonezu released "Kick Back", which was used as the opening theme song for the anime series Chainsaw Man.
In his Vocaloid songs and his independent album Diorama, he also arranged, programmed, mixed and performed all of the instruments by himself.
[49][50] "Suna no Wakusei" (砂の惑星) (officially "DUNE" in English) is a song composed and arranged by Hachi after his long absence in VOCALOID music scene since his previous work, "Donut Hole".
[52] It has entered the Hall of Legend on Niconico and rapidly surpassed 1 million views on YouTube shortly after its upload.
[54] He composed and produced the song "Escape Game" (エスケープゲーム) for anime singer LiSA on her mini-album Letters to U (2011).
[55] He also worked on a remix for the ending theme song of the anime Anohana, "Secret Base (Kimi ga Kureta Mono) (Those Dizzy Days Ver.
[19] When his parents bought a computer when he was 10, Yonezu made and uploaded flash animation videos for Bump of Chicken songs on the Internet.
[10] He continued to illustrate for his album Diorama, creating the music videos and the cover artwork by himself, and with the help of fellow members of Minakata Kenkyūjo.
[26] Yonezu's illustrations became a feature in music magazine Rockin' On Japan starting in the August 2013 issue.
His piece, called Kaijū Zukan (かいじゅうずかん, "Monster Picture Index"), features fictional creatures Yonezu has drawn.
Chris Peppler, the MC of the radio show and star of "Kamen Rider Drive", asked me, "Would you like to meet him?"