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The story
The all-female rock band SCANDAL has announced that it will end its activities on August 21, 2027. The members, who were 15 to 18 years old when the band formed, are now 35 to 38. In 2023, they were certified by Guinness World Records for “Longest-running rock band (female) with an unchanged lineup.”
On the thread, some said they’d never once seen the band on terrestrial TV, while others recalled their Fullmetal Alchemist tie-in song, and many simply expressed shock that the band had lasted 20 years without breaking up.
SCANDAL Announces It Will End Activities on August 21 Next Year
The all-female rock band SCANDAL announced on the 24th that it will end its activities on August 21, 2027.
Source: news.yahoo.co.jp / Original article here
What people said
Is their talent agency weak or something?
Such a waste of a good band.
They were regulars on the FNS Music Festival for a while.
A music producer at Fuji TV was a big fan of theirs.
Probably the band's name put me off ><
Wasn't that the Fullmetal Alchemist tie-in?
Surprised to hear they were even still active.
Though, well, that's the school-uniform effect talking.
Still, I'm mainly just shocked they were even still active.
Cutting it pretty close.
Probably because it was the era when bands like Shishamo and Silent Siren were big.
I recall the bassist with green hair being cute.
Now: ages 35-38
They really stuck it out.
They formed the band that young? They're still plenty young enough to keep going.
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They changed someone's life — that's amazing. Though I had no clue about any of this until you brought it up, lol.
Fans tend to drift toward younger acts too — normally after about 5 years,
the vocalist either goes solo, or the band quietly disappears after a member's "shotgun marriage" retirement.
Hey now, don't talk trash about Whiteberry.
Hearing that name, for some reason I think of Tenkaippin (the ramen chain).
There's still Shonen Knife and Lolita No.18, you know.
Though both have had lineup changes.
There's also BAND-MAID.
Well, if they're not selling, I guess it's just time to call it.
Background and Key Points
SCANDAL debuted in 2006 as high schoolers on the Kansai indie circuit before Epic Records signed them, and they built their catalogue through anime tie-ins — “Shunkan Sentimental” for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood and “Harukaze” for Bleach among them — plus regular slots on Fuji TV’s FNS Music Festival, which is why some posters recognized the songs without recognizing the band. Their 2023 Guinness certification for “longest-running rock band (female) with an unchanged lineup” is real and matters here: female bands in Japan rarely survive intact past five years, because a member’s marriage or the vocalist’s solo career typically ends things, as posters noted when comparing SCANDAL to Whiteberry. Reaching 20 years with all four original members, now aged 35 to 38, is the actual anomaly the thread is reacting to.
Where the thread splits is over why the breakup is happening now rather than over whether it’s sad. One camp treats 20 years as a natural, dignified stopping point — “no scandal, clean ending” — while another reads the timing as a sign the band simply stopped selling, closing with the blunt “if they’re not selling, I guess it’s just time to call it.” Neither side offers evidence beyond speculation; SCANDAL’s own statement hasn’t been quoted in the thread.
What outside readers will likely miss is the mismatch between underground and overground visibility that the thread itself displays: multiple posters insist they never saw SCANDAL on terrestrial TV while others recall Fuji TV festival appearances and a 20th-anniversary show at Osaka-jo Hall, a major arena — meaning the band was commercially significant within music/anime circles despite low mainstream idol-industry visibility, a split common to Japanese rock acts that skip the tarento/variety-show track entirely.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Geinou/Sports News+) thread “[Entertainment] All-female rock band SCANDAL announces it will end activities on August 21 next year.”
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