
RADWIMPS recently scored the music for the very successful anime movie 'Your Name.' Credit: Toho, Funimation

Also I like neutral, genderless voice and music.” I think it’s because it’s something that I cannot be. I tend to be influenced by female singers. It’s here we got to the band’s influences and they have quite a few, with Yojiro starting off with his favorites, “Radiohead, Bjork, Elliot Smith, The Flaming Lips, Hiromi Uehara, John Frusciante, Ringo Sheena and Chara. The name of the band is also something that’s something of an interesting point and Yusuke was more than happy to explain, “RAD is like 'cool' and WIMP is 'sissy' or 'coward,' so we put these extreme words together.” That’s when Satoshi and I joined the band.” After he got into college and the band re-united, there was a slight member change.

That band took a break when Yojiro had to study for his college entrance exam. This was followed up by Yusuke, who went into more detail: “Yojiro and Akira formed a five-piece band of local friends during high school. We entered a band contest and met Yusuke and Satoshi there.”

You take all the capital letters and put them in order to spell a phrase.
