They released another EP around this period titled "I’m Standing Here" this time sung in Japanese. It picked up slowly with help from a popular radio DJ on the station FM Yokohama. They started gaining popularity in 2001 when they sent their first single "konayuki" 粉 雪 to indie radio stations. Having started out in 1996 and they only released they're first EP in 2000 with 6 tracks mostly sung in English. Only switch is that they are in Japan and they play at their resident Yokohama area and have been together since. Another guy (Kiyoshi Ijichi) tags along after his own band disperses and they start playing together. ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION is a band that was first formed, as with most bands, when some guys (namely Masafumi Goto, Kensuke Kita, and Takahiro Yamada) meet at University and reckon they could start something together.
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