Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets

Introduction: Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets is a Japanese rock band under record label Warner Bros Home Entertainment (2013–), having previously been under Geneon Universal (2010–2011). The band initially formed as a one-man unit under the name Kishida Kyoudan (stylized as kishidakyoudan) in 2004. The band made its independent debut in 2005 with the album SUPERNOVA, while still continuing to release the next four albums under the name Kishida Kyoudan, before changing their name to Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets in 2007.

Biography: The band began in 2004 as a one-man unit consisting of the musician Kishida, who dedicated his time to cover songs from various series. One prominent series which he covered a lot was the Touhou Project, in addition to other video games by Japanese visual novel studio Key. He would go on to release a CD in 2005 featuring original songs and covers of various songs from the Type-Moon games and the Touhou Project, which he featured for sale at the Winter Comiket in the same year.

In 2007, Kishida received a request to perform at the Touhou live event "Flowering Night", he accepted and gathered various members regardless of personality or experience to form the unit "Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets". They originally planned to disband after performing at the event, but due to unexpected positive feedback from the audience they decided to continue as a band. Later, in the same year, the vocalist ichigo also joined the band.

The band made their major debut in July 2010 through NBCUniversal Entertainment (who at the time were known as Geneon Universal), performing the single titled "HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD" in the anime with the same name _HIGHSCHOOL OF THE DEAD_. The full single was released a month later on August 18, 2010, which was their first single release as Kishida Kyoudan & The Akeboshi Rockets, which was a whole three years after officially starting band activities. Additionally their first album titled "POPSENSE" was released a year later on June 22, 2011, spanning a total of eleven tracks.

Skipping three years ahead to 2013, the band would make its reappearance in anime performing the single titled "STRIKE THE BLOOD" to the show with the same name _STRIKE THE BLOOD_, while on December 24, 2014 they would release their second album titled "hack/SLASH", which also spanned a total of eleven tracks.

In 2015, on July 5, and in the following year 2016, on January 9, the band would make two consecutive appearances in the anime _GATE_, and its sequel _GATE II_, performing the singles "GATE (Sore wa Akatsuki no You ni)" and "GATE II (Sekai o Koete)". The full versions of the singles released on July 29, 2015 and on January 27, 2016 respectively. They would, in addition, go on to make two more appearances in anime in 2016, with the first one being in _Alderamin on the Sky_ on July 9, performing the single "Tenkyou no Alderamin" and on November 23, performing the single "BLOOD ON THE EDGE", in the show _Strike the Blood II_.

Members: - Kishida (岸田) – bassist, guitarist, in-charge of lyrics, composition and arrangement - ichigo – vocalist - Hayapi (はやぴ～) – lead guitarist - Micchan (みっちゃん) – drummer

Support Members: - T-tsu (てっ), also known as T-tsu-chan (てっちゃん) – guitarist