Bump of Chicken (バンプ・オブ・チキン, Banpu Obu Chikin) is a Japanese alternative rock group from Sakura, Chiba.

The band members are Motoo Fujiwara (vocals, rhythm), Hiroaki Masukawa (guitar), Yoshifumi Naoi (bass) and Hideo Masu (drums).

Their music has been used in various video games and as theme songs for movies, television shows and anime in Japan.

Bump of Chicken's first performance was in 1994, during their ninth grade cultural festival,[1] playing a cover of The Beatles' version of "Twist and Shout".

[5] Bump of Chicken's first big success occurred when their single, "Tentai Kansoku", appeared on the Oricon Weekly Charts in 2001.

[5] They released their first album on Toy's Factory, Jupiter, in February 2002 and it was their first number one on the Oricon Weekly Charts.

In the summer of 2002, their music was featured on the Japanese TV drama Tentai Kansoku, giving them more exposure.

On December 15, 2010, they released their sixth studio album, Cosmonaut, but it did not feature the song "Merry Christmas".

On September 29, 2020, Bump of Chicken released the single "Acacia", which was featured in a music video named "GOTCHA!"

[9] Motoo Fujiwara (藤原基央) is the composer, lyricist, rhythm guitarist, and main vocalist of the group.

[10] Hiroaki Masukawa (増川弘明) is the guitarist of the group, and also writes most of the hidden joke tracks for albums.

[citation needed] Yoshifumi Naoi (直井由文) is the bassist of the group, and is referred to as the "crowd pleaser".

His nickname within the band is "Chama", a play on the Japanese phrase "Obotchama" referring to a rich family's son.

[12] On June 6, 2021, he published yet another, longer apology for the same incident, at the same time announcing his return to the band.

[citation needed] Their single "Arue" is a song dedicated to the fictional character Rei Ayanami, from the anime series Neon Genesis Evangelion.

"Tentai Kansoku" and "Karma" were also featured as covers by the band Afterglow in the mobile game for BanG Dream!.

/ Colony" single is used as the opening song of the TV anime adaptation of the manga Blood Blockade Battlefront.

The video was made into a stand-alone story promoting the original manga, called March Comes in Like a Lion Meets Bump of Chicken.

[15] In early April 2017 they posted a long form music video for Answer to YouTube.

Rie Takahashi performed a cover of the group's song "Tentai Kansoku" as the second ending theme music for Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie (2022) during its second week of release.