ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION Official YouTube Channel

Asian Kung-Fu Generation is a Japanese rock, pop, punk, alternative rock, indie rock, pop punk, and power pop band, formed in Yokohama, Japan, in 1996, by Masafumi Gotoh, (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Kensuke Kita, (lead guitar and backing vocals), Takahiro Yamada, (bass guitar and backing vocals), and Kiyoshi Ijichi, (drums and percussion). Since their inception in 1996 they've released a total of 10 studio albums, including Kimi Tsunagi Five M, (2003), Sol-fa, (2004), Fanclub, (2006), World World World, (2008), Surf Bungaku Kamakura, (2008), Magic Disk, (2010), Landmark, (2012), World Future, (2015), Sol-fa 2016, (2016), and Hometown, (2018), twelve compilation albums, including Nano-Mugen Compilation, (2005), Nano-Mugen Compilation 2006, (2006), Nano-Mugen Compilation 2008, (2008), Nano-Mugen Compilation 2009, (2009), Nano-Mugen Compilation 2011, (2011), Best Hit AKG, (2012), Nano-Mugen Compilation 2012, (2012), Nano-Mugen Compilation 2013, (2013), Nano-Mugen Compilation 2014, (2014), Best Hit AKG 2 (2012–2018), (2018), Best Hit AKG Official Bootleg "HONE", (2018), and Best Hit AKG Official Bootleg "IMO", (2018), four live albums, including Feedback File, (2006), The Recording at NHK CR-509 Studio, (2013), Feedback File 2, (2014), and AKG Box –20th Anniversary Edition–, (2017), and six extended plays, including Caramelman and Asian Kung-Fu Generation, (2000), The Time Past and I Could Not See You Again, (2000), I'm Standing Here, (2001), Hokai Amplifier, (2002, re-released in 2003), Mada Minu Ashita ni, (2008), and Can't Sleep EP, (2018). 
In the west they're probably best known for creating songs that were used as opening and ending themes of Japanese anime series, such as Haruka Kanata, the second opening theme song for the anime series Naruto, Rewrite, which was the fourth opening theme song for the 2003 adaptation of Fullmetal Alchemist, Re:Re, which was used as the opening theme song for the anime series Erased, After Dark, which was used as the seventh opening theme song for the anime series Bleach, Sore dewa, Mata Ashita, which was the main theme song for the anime movie Naruto the Movie: Road to Ninja, Blood Circulator, which was the nineteenth opening theme song for the anime series Naruto Shippuden, Kōya o Aruke, which was the main theme son for the 2017 anime movie Night is Short Walk On Girl, and Dororo/Kaihōku, which was used as the opening theme song for the anime series Dororo. 
As a sign of their increasing cultural prominence, the band came to be parodied in a volume of the popular Hellsing manga by members of the Vatican named, "The Vactikung."
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