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She was originally chosen because Kenmochi liked the mismatch between her voice and the house and hip hop-oriented music that he was producing for the group.
[5] The group conducted serial web interviews with online music store OTOTOY to promote the release of the album.
[8] Later that year, the group's first full album, Zipangu, was released cementing their unique stylistic blend of genres.
The album saw the group as quick and quirky up-and-comers on the fringes of the Japanese mainstream, resulting in more creative videos and commercial tie-ins, such as the song "Ra" with Nissin curry, "Medusa" with PARCO department stores, and "Nishi Tamao" with a Casio Trackformer XW-PD1.
The mini-album entitled UMA, conceptually based upon unknown mythical animals, was released on 22 June 2016 under Warner Music Japan, their major label debut.
[9] Another American show followed in San Francisco, as well as part of Tyler, the Creator's Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival festival in Los Angeles.
The single, SUPERKID, was released as a teaser for their first full album with the major label Warner, entitled SUPERMAN in 2017.
[10][11][12] A performance at the Nippon Budokan in March 2017 marked the group's largest show and highest budget production to date, along with a Blu-Ray released in July 2017.
[14][15][16][17] Another follow-up release, entitled "Ei Sei", was made for a real-life adventure game based upon the Kingdom manga, which simultaneously took place across multiple prefectures.
[19] Throughout this time, both KOM_I and Kenmochi were weekly hosts of the Wednesday night broadcasting for J-Wave's Spark Radio program with frequent guests and discussion.
[21] In April 2018, the group scored the soundtrack for the film Neko wa Daku Mono (猫は抱くもの), which Kenmochi largely produced instrumentals with a few songs featuring KOM_I on vocals.
During this time, Kenmochi resumed work on his solo career after a long hiatus by releasing 沸騰 沸く ~Footwork〜, an album focused on original juke and footwork music.
[24] As the group's activity slowed, Kenmochi continued sound production for other artists, commercials, and releasing a follow-up EP in June 2020 entitled たぶん沸く〜TOWN WORK〜.
In October 2021, Utaha made her debut by performing at the Shibuya PARCO[27] and the release of the songs "Alice" and "Buckingham".
[28] The group has resumed touring around Japan and in February 2022, they released two more songs and videos for "Maneki Neko" and "Edison".
During the large performance at the Nippon Budokan in March 2017, both Kenmochi and Dir.F joined KOM_I for a final encore to sing "Dracula".
