All a university really needs to get its students to come out to an event is the promise of free food.
However, Kyoto Seika University enlisted four students from the school's folk-music club to entice a crowd to a welcome party in April 2012, which ended up being the debut gig for Homecomings.
"We didn't plan on doing anything more than that, so we just practiced whenever we all didn't have class," says vocalist and guitarist Ayaka Tatamino. "We didn't get much reaction from our friends or the people surrounding us ... though a few foreign people sang along."