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Zenon Ishikawa Oshō, bassist of the “demon rock” band Seikima-II, revealed on the group’s official website that he is currently undergoing treatment for an illness, and it was announced he will not perform at the August 29 concert at Kumamoto Castle Hall. On 5ch, the thread lit up with jokes about his “100,000-and-something” age setting, fans hunting for the masked members’ real faces, and nostalgic reminiscing from the late-night radio generation.
8/24 (Mon) 18:05
The rock band Seikima-II updated its official website on the 24th, announcing that bassist Zenon Ishikawa Oshō has fallen ill and is currently receiving treatment, and that he will not appear at the Kumamoto Castle Hall concert on the 29th of this month.
The band’s official site stated: “We have an important announcement for everyone. Seikima-II bassist Zenon Ishikawa Oshō has fallen ill and is currently undergoing treatment.”
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Demon or not, once you're past 100,060 years old your body's bound to start acting up.
Jaguar-san……
They all show up like that lol
That's just his 'disguise for hiding among mortals' (a stock tokusatsu-hero line).
He did a bare-faced talk session with Sōru Tōru on YouTube — the content's actually pretty interesting too.
I honestly don't know what you're talking about.
The other titles — Kakka (Excellency), Denka (Highness), Chōkan (Director-General), Sanbō (Chief of Staff) — are based on each member's rank in the Demon World,
but this guy's 'Oshō' (Priest) is just a nickname he got for his calm vibe.
That's Luke Takamura lol
That's Hound Dog.
I had it, so what?
As long as it's not gold or silver paint, he's fine.
He's the kind of act that falls into that category, so yeah —
Funassyi would probably get the same treatment if it ever 'died' too.
I'm from the generation that listened to Demon Kogure's late-night radio show, and it was genuinely fun back then.
One of the good things about being a Shōwa-era kid.
Oh, that Director Nakayama thing?
Pretty pathetic for a demon to have farsightedness, back pain, and frozen shoulder.
The average lifespan for demons these days is around 100,076 years.
It's stretched to 100,081 now.
Background and Key Points
Seikima-II formed in 1982 as a self-described “demon rock” band, performing in full corpse-paint-style makeup and never breaking character in public: each member holds a “Demon World” rank (Denka, Kakka, Chōkan, Sanbō) and a fictional age in the tens of thousands of years, a bit sustained for over four decades on Japanese TV and radio, including Demon Kogure’s well-known late-night radio show that shaped a generation of Shōwa-era listeners. Zenon Ishikawa’s title, “Oshō” (a Buddhist priest’s honorific), fits that same in-character device, and the band’s official announcements lean into the lore too, framing member deaths as members “returning to the Demon World.”
The thread doesn’t really divide into opposing camps; it moves between two registers on the same news. One is pure gag material, riffing on the gap between an illness and a “100,000-year-old demon,” and joking about how the band would eventually announce a death. The other is quieter and sincere: posters from the original radio-listening generation recalling how much the act meant to them, alongside people surprised that the members have real, searchable faces once the makeup and stage name are set aside.
What the thread glosses over is that Zenon Ishikawa Oshō’s title isn’t just in-universe flavor text — he is in real life an ordained Buddhist priest, which is why that particular stage name was given to him rather than invented from nothing, unlike the purely fictional Demon World ranks the other members carry.
*This article is compiled from excerpts and a summary of the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Seikima-II Bassist Zenon Ishikawa Oshō Announces He’s Undergoing Treatment for Illness — Will Skip Aug. 29 Kumamoto Show.”
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