Ryuji Chiyotani has the viewers at Shimokitazawa’s Basement Bar in his thrall as he hollers into the mic, thrashes away on guitar and zippers all around the small stage.
However late within the set, the vocalist for rock quartet TV Tairiku Ondo ratchets up the power much more with a peculiar transfer: chugging three bottles of water in a row, showing pained as he empties the final one.
“That was about hyping the group up and introducing them to a superhuman they’d by no means seen earlier than,” the 19-year-old Chiyotani says with fun throughout an interview the next day.
