Line #19 Trivia/Fishmans


1	* BreakoutHit: ''Long Season'' became this for the band ''years'' after they had stopped being around for western fans.
2	** "Nightcrusing" for their home country and much earlier, "いかれた Baby".
3	* CreativeDifferences: Why Kensuke Ojima and Hakase-sun left Fishmans, although they still remained on good terms with Sato and company and even fans consider them good musicians for their contributions during their early years.
4	** Averted with Kashiwabara, who simply wanted to leave the band because he felt he had accomplished everything as a musician. Ironically enough, following Sato's passing, he started playing music again.
5	** This was the case with ZAK. While ZAK was happy and willing to help out the band with production, he eventually began to butt heads with Shinji over the band's direction, especially with Shinji taking a much more dominating force in the band, leading to the creator-driven ''Uchu''. This lead to ZAK leaving the band after ''Uchu'''s release as well.
6	* CreatorsFavorite: With their constant show of it, especially from a super lengthy one from the bootleg ''1997.12.12 Live in Liquid Room'' performance, Fishmans seemed to consider "Walking in the Rhythm" their favorite song.
7	* CashCowFranchise: Japan seemed to take note of Fishmans's dedicated fanbase and pushes them all out like big icons, even appearing on Space Shower TV, which could be considered the equivalent to a [[Creator/{{MTV}} TRL-esque series]].
8	* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: The infamous ''Fishmans Rock Festival'', consisting of vinyls of their Setagaya Trilogy, ''8月の現状'', ''98.12.28 男達の別れ'' and the singles "Season", "Walking in the Rhythm", and "ゆらめき In The Air". It's ''incredibly'' rare to come buy and even if one is lucky to find a copy, expect to pay over ''$2000'' for it.
9	* NoExportForYou: Probably one of the biggest reasons why Fishmans have remained in underground success in the US. The band never reached stardom outside of Japan, so their music was never released outside of Japan. Which leads to...
10	** KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The [=CDs=] for their music tend to be pricey ''because'' of the aforementioned NoExportForYou. ''98.12.28'' is worse for the CD copy since it's been out of print for years despite being given a reissue in 2009. As a result, fans tend to go for the DVD live performance of ''98.12.28'' than buy the CD. Especially now that albums are free to stream, although ''98.12.28'' is abridged with removing the show banter.
11	* ThePeteBest: Founding bassist Hisamatsu, who was replaced by Yuzuru in 1988, around a year after formation.
12	* ReclusiveArtist: Shinji was surprisingly enough if one digs hard enough on Japanese websites: All that's known is he was from the Setagaya prefecture in Tokyo and graduated from Meiji Gakuin University. Rumors go around about him from "dating" Honzi, dating a musician known as [=MariMari=] (as stated on the 4chan board about him), to even a long debated rumor that he originally ''[[HiddenDepths was a model]]''.
13	** Honzi as well, not much is known about her aside from her one solo album and Fishmans career. ZAK too is relatively private about his life.
14	* UrbanLegendOfZelda: A non-game example: Fans have always thought that ''98.12.28'' was the band's goodbye show, which was not the case: It was a goodbye for ''Yuzuru'', their bassist. More to the legend is that Shinji at the show said "Goodbye", foreshadowing his death. Again, this was proven wrong with the DVD release of the performance that actually shows Yuzuru happily saying "Sayanora!" to the audience as they finished the show. Shinji doesn't even talk after the performance ended and simply sat his guitar down and waved goodbye to the audience.
15	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
16	** Fishmans planned to continue after Yuzuru's departure. It's debated on ''what'' would have happened afterwards, although some argue the band would have gone in the direction similar to ''Uchu''. Shinji himself stated during the ''98.12.28'' performance that he wished to return to the band's dub roots.

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