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Japanese dance-rockers Flow are the top anime credits band, recognized in both hemispheres for their work for such mainstays of the Japanese cartoon industry as Naruto, Eureka Seven, and Code Geass. That was a long way to go for an X-Japan cover band, and indeed, Flow spent most of their early career in the '90s setting their priorities straight and paving their way to success. The group, initially named Wyburn, then Pinking, was started in 1993 between brothers Koushi and Take and slowly moved from X-Japan worship to Hide (the band's guitarist) worship and finally to original material. Flow proper was born in 1998, with the inclusion of the vocalist Keigo and the bassist Got's [sic] (the drummer Iwasaki joined in 2000), as well as the final change of the band's name and the decision to mix rock and hip-hop/dance elements into their music. Between 2000 and the first half of 2003, Flow had five EPs and singles out, most faring well on the Japanese indie charts, and Okuru Kotoba even m...