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They host the Nano-Mugen Festival each summer. Musicians and bands from Japan, America, and the UK come to perform; each act contributes one song to make up a compilation album released to advertise the festival. Some previous acts include Spitz, Chatmonchy, Beat Crusaders, Ellegarden, Third Eye Blind, Unicorn, and Ben Folds.
Outside of Japan, they are best known for their songs "''Haruka Kanata''", "Rewrite", and "After Dark", which were used as opening songs for the ''[[Naruto]]'', ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
The band has released six studio albums and five EPs.
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* [[Anime Theme Song]]: One of the things that gained them renown.
** ''[[Naruto]]'': "''Haruka Kanata''"<ref>Distant Horizon</ref> from ''Houkai Amplifier''
** ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** ''[[Tekkon Kinkreet]]'': "''Aru Machi no Gunjou''"<ref>A Town in Ultramarine</ref> from ''World World World''
** ''[[Bleach]]'': "After Dark" from ''World World World''
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** There's a ''Houkai Amplifier'' CD on ''Magic Disk'''s album art. If you squint, you can tell that the boy on the cover has been replaced with Gotoh.
* [[Cut Song]]: "''Kaiga Kyoushitsu''" and "''Dōdōmeguri no Yoru''" were cut out of ''Sol-fa'' and ''Fanclub'', respectively. Luckily, they got put on ''Feedback File''.
* [[A Day in
* [[Emo Kid]]: Subverted. Many of the songs have emo-sounding lyrics, but they almost always have happy or hopeful endings.
* [[Epic Instrumental Opener]]: "''Siren''", "''Siren 2''", and "''Gekkou''".
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** Or [[Fan Service]], depending on the viewer.
* [[Gainax Ending]]: The "Fujisawa Loser" video starts out as a weird metaphor for the difficulties of either entering a company or being in a famous band...as obstacle courses. Pretty straightforward. Then {{spoiler|the big fancy house and the supermodel at the end of the course get up and elope in a yacht}}.
* [[A Good Name for
* [[Gratuitous English]]: Most of their early independently released music. Gotoh is actually trying to change this into [[Surprisingly Good English]] by taking weekly English lessons.
* [[Hello]]: At the very end of "''Tabidatsu Kimi e''".
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* [[Tender Tears]]: Gotoh is a sensitive guy...He cried when watching ''This Is It'' despite not being a fan of Michael Jackson.
** Gotoh and Kita both looked like they were on the verge of tears when Gotoh made a speech about the Akihabara massacre at Nano-Mugen Festival 2008.
* [[What Do You Mean It Wasn't Made
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