# Are You "Fried Chickenz"??

Are You "Fried Chickenz"?? is the fifth compilation album by Japanese recording artist Gackt, released on June 23, 2010 by his former label Nippon Crown. First a solo project, it became a newly formed rock band named Yellow Fried Chickenz (abbrevated as YFC), which besides Japan two times toured Europe between 2010-2011, and released a few live and studio recordings until disbandment in 2012. They resumed activity in 2024 as Gackt Yellow Fried Chickenz.

## Yellow Fried Chickenz

Prior to the transfer announcement to Avex Group in 2010, separately from Gackt's solo career, he organized a band, "Yellow Fried Chickenz" , whose name refers to human cowardice. Although in the beginning it was meant to be a solo project, a new band was founded. Due to similarity of YFC with KFC, as a pun band's first DVD cover features Gackt stealing Colonel Sanders statue from a restaurant, exclaiming "we're gonna dye KFC and the world the color of YFC!".
The first event by the band was the male-only concert on March 21, 2010, at Kawasaki's Citta Club, in an attempt to bolster "men's spirit ... and sexuality" against the so-called herbivore men masculinity in Japan's society. Besides the nationwide tour in June and August (including a female-only swimsuit concert), from July 16, Gackt with the band made his first appearance touring Europe, performing at sold-out clubs in London, Paris, Barcelona, Munich, and Bochum, gathering an audience of 5,000 people.
Since June 2011, the band line-up besides Gackt as a vocalist, You Kurosaki and Chachamaru on guitars, also included a second vocalist Jon, third guitarist Takumi, while on drums Shinya Yamada (Luna Sea), and on bass guitar U:Zo (former Rize). In July and August 2011, the band toured Europe for the second time, visiting 9 countries and performing 14 shows, starting on July 20-21 at Bataclan in Paris, including also first time performance in Cologne, Amsterdam, Toulouse, Berlin, Budapest, Warsaw, Leipzig, Stockholm, and ending on 11 August at Ray Just Arena, Moscow, gathering an audience of 20,000 people in total. Then he toured across Japan. Both tours revenue was donated to the Japanese Red Cross for the victims of the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. In September 2011 performed at the V-Rock Festival at Saitama Super Arena. A year later on July 4, 2012, at the concert in Nippon Budokan the group was disbanded.
On November 10, 2024 the band with new line-up resumed activity as Gackt Yellow Fried Chickenz for a limited five year revival. With Gackt on vocals, it features on guitars Yohio, MiA and Hiroto, on bass guitar Daichi, and on drums Hidehiro. They performed on Kishidan Expo at Makuhari Messe, and announced Christmas concerts on December 24-25 at the Zepp Haneda. Gackt mentioned plans to tour in Asia, Europe and South America.
Several recordings were released from the project band, partly credited to Gackt until mid-2011, with "#" describing their peak on Oricon charts:
* two singles "The End Of The Day" (#7) and "All My Love/You Are The Reason" (#10) in 2011,
* studio album Yellow Fried Chickenz I in 2012 (#7),
* live album Attack Of The Yellow Fried Chickenz In Europe 2010 (#50) in 2011,
* live video recordings Yellow Fried Chickenz 煌☆雄兎狐塾 ～男女混欲美濡戯祭～ (#13), The Graffiti ~Attack Of The "Yellow Fried Chickenz" In Europe～『I Love You All』 (#15) in 2011, and World Tour *Show Ur Soul.I* 世壊傷結愛魂祭 at Makuhari 2011 (#7), World Tour *Show Ur Soul.I* 世壊傷結愛魂祭 at Berlin 2011 (#17) in 2012.
Band's lyrics tend to be a combination of Japanese and English language, with some songs released or performed also in English ('.eu') and combined ('.com') version, for example "Circle", You Are The Reason", "Mind Forest", "Not Alone", "Speed Master", "Ever" and "Jesus".

## Track listing

All lyrics are written by Gackt C.; all music is composed by Gackt C. (except M-9,M-12,M-14)

## Chart performance
### Oricon sales charts

| Release | Provider(s) | Chart | Peak position | Sales total |
| June 23, 2010 | Oricon | Weekly Albums | 10 | 12,404 |
| June 23, 2010 | Oricon | / | / | 21,514 |

### Billboard Japan

| Provider(s) | Chart | Peak position |
| Billboard | Top Albums | 9 |