A Japanese post-rock/jazz crossover band, Special Others had been around for a long time before finally making headway with their career around 2004, rising to share the scene with Pennywise and such J-rock big shots as Asian Kung-Fu Generation, Beat Crusaders, and Zazen Boys. The group was founded in 1995 by six classmates from a high school in Yokohama; the kids graduated in 1998 and two of them left, but the rest -- Ryota "Toyin" Miyahara (drums, vocals), Yuya "Segun" Mitayoshi (bass), Takeshi "Dayo" Yanagishita (guitar, vocals), and Yuma "Remi" Serizawa (keyboards, vocals)...