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DAI stopped doing major label work altogether in 2010, but Ayu did fish "Return Road" and "Sweet scar" out of her old demos for PQ and LOVE again... there may be more work of his that she's sitting on. In the meantime he's focusing on his new indie violin-fronted rock band, Sword of the Far East.
BOUNCEBACK are still working, but they're really starting to get derivative IMHO. The most recent work of thiers that I've personally heard is the song "V.O.L" on the most recent AAA album, and sounds like a cross between "glitter" and "You & Me" and BoA's "Shine we Are!" (which was written by them actually)... their stuff isn't really contributing anything anymore.
Yuta Nakano does great when he's doing the HAL sound, but he needs to ease up on the most generic classical-style pop ballad arrangments ever. They are just.... not his thing, generally speaking. He doesn't know enough to make them distinctive between each other. If I'd heard only "Pray" and nothing on LOVE again, I might like "Pray" much much much more. No, not "might." I WOULD like "Pray" much much more. Objectively I love it, I'm just... really tired of that sound. And I love classical music so that's kinda saying something.
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