This song has been such a crazy experience on a few levels:
[1] I loved the song the first time I heard it on YT Music.
[2] Today, it came up again and I decided to look up the artist. It turned out to be a J-Rock group. 🤯 I thought YT Music got it wrong–as they sometimes combine artists pages of similar names etc. They have an interesting range in their genre style.
[3] Just checked out the MV and it turned out to be pretty deep/impactful.

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    One Ok Rock are big. 🤗 I’m not very familiar with the Japanese music scene but One Ok Rock are one of Japan’s biggest rock bands and they have a large international fanbase. Ive been envious of their American and European fans for years. T_T Taka’s voice is <3, Toru & Ryota's guitar is <3, Tomoyo's drums are <3.

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      Apparently they might even be bigger than Radwimps–they have more subscribers on YT Music! Most of my knowledge of J-Rock comes from anime and I don’t think they’ve done an OST/OP/ED. How did you hear about them?

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        Yup, I think theyre bigger 🙂 Or Radwimps are just about at the same level.
        They did the OST for Ruroni Kenshin live action starring Sato Takeru. ^^ The Beginning. Link to my fave live performance of the song:

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9da3oeTD6A

        Note: Taka (vocalist) trained for years as an idol, which explains the running but able to sing.

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          Thx for the share. Pretty awesome performance. The guy is fit and talented, that’s for sure. Having said that, I wouldn’t doubt that his idol training helped him, but a good few frontmen can do that–running but able to sing. 🙃 Just don’t ask me to name any. 😂

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            LOL so true. 😂😂😂 I’m too involved with kpop hahahhaha

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            Me too. Seriously. It’s kinda sad. I’m about to make a post praising EXO for a pretty dang good live performance of “Love Shot” and too be fair, for that intensity of dancing, it was good vocal quality. But that shouldn’t be something so strange for it to stand out so much for me to have to praise.

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          Hahahhaha I really don’t know what it is! It just sucks you right in.

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    Oh I love One Ok Rock!! I got into them recently and their music is amazing and Taka’s voice is just powerful ❤️

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      He is! What I like about them is that there music is pretty diverse in it’s sound. You really can tell how influential their idols/influences were on them.

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