On November 8, 2007, a few months after their second single "Manifesto" was released, Kōichi Tabo announced on their website that he stopped appearing on the stage to concentrate on composing the songs.
[6] Besides being active behind the scenes as Superfly's composer & arranger, Tabo has also written music for artists such as Charice Pempengco, Mai Fukui, Yuna Ito, Maaya Sakamoto, BECCA, Saki Fukuda, and Asia Engineer.
Following its release, Ochi, who has a great admiration for Janis Joplin, was given the chance to travel to San Francisco in 2008 where she travelled through Haight-Ashbury and met up with Sam Andrew of Big Brother and the Holding Company as part of a documentary titled Following the Steps of Janis on Music On!
[9] April also saw the release of the Rock'N'Roll Show 2008 DVD set from the band's 2008 tour stop at the NHK Hall.
Superfly's second studio album, Box Emotions, was released on September 2, 2009,[14] which she celebrated by holding a free live show at the Roppongi Hills arena,[15] which hosted 4000 people.
Ochi has also teamed up with fashion designer Manami Kobayashi for the A.I.C (Another Important Culture) brand to create a line of Woodstock and hippie subculture themed clothing called "Cosmic Market".
[24] On November 30, 2010, Superfly performed at the Zepp Tokyo arena alongside a session band called "The Lemon Bats" (consisting of Mo'Some Tonebender's Kazuhiro Momo and Superfly's touring & recording guitarist Yoshiyuki Yatsuhashi on guitar, record producer Koichi Tsutaya on keyboard, Straightener's Hidekazu Hinata on bass, and Tatsuya Nakamura on drums) in a show called the Switch 25th Anniversary presents Superfly & The Lemon Bats Special Live "Rock'N' Roll Muncher".
Performing as "Superfly & The Lemon Bats", Ochi performed covers of "Dr. Feelgood", "Beat It", "Barracuda", "White Room", "I Saw Her Standing There", "Land of a Thousand Dances", and "Born to Lose", in addition to covers of her own songs "Tanjō", "Manifesto", "Free Planet", "Alright!!
digital music stores and all proceeds went to the Japanese Red Cross's relief efforts in Tōhoku.
In 2012, Superfly participated in the JAPAN UNITED event with MUSIC 30-member supergroup in recording a cover of the Beatles' "All You Need Is Love" to raise money for reconstruction efforts regarding the aftermath of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
video album featuring performances from the band's December 2011 arena tour stop at Osaka-jō Hall.
Limited editions of the video release included a CD featuring the previously unreleased track "Sasurai no Tabibito" (さすらいの旅人, "Wandering Traveller").
Superfly has also recorded a duet with Tortoise Matsumoto titled "STARS" which will be used by Fuji Television as its theme song for its broadcasts of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
[43][44] The release of "STARS" was followed by the double A-side single "Kagayaku Tsuki no Yō ni" / "The Bird Without Wings", with its title tracks used as the theme songs for the television drama Summer Rescue[45][46] and the film Ushijima the Loan Shark,[47] respectively.
[55] In May 2014, Superfly was chosen to perform the theme song "Live" "for the sequel of the film adaptation of Ushijima the Loan Shark.
[56] In September, Superfly performed the theme song for the Tales of Zestiria video game, titled "White Light".
[58][59] In April 2017, Superfly released the 10th Anniversary 3-CD greatest hits set Love, Peace, and Fire, which contained 39 songs selected from 127 tunes by fan voting.
[60][61] In January 2020, Superfly's sixth album 0 was released, which included "Ambitious", the theme song for the TBS drama Watashi, Teiji de Kaerimasu.