It started with a butchered deer and ended with a train ride home together.
Artists Kom_I and Takahide Higuchi first connected 11 years ago at an event at Shinjuku Loft in Tokyo, where the former performed a dissection live on stage.
“I still remember it clearly, and I tell people about it a lot,” says Kom_I, nostalgically, over a Zoom call. The 32-year-old musician, whose real name is Masaki Koshi but is better known by her artist name, used to front the genre-bending J-pop outfit Suiyoubi no Campanella, known as Wednesday Campanella to English-speaking fans.
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