D_Drive started out with guitarist Seiji (who also initiated the band), guitarist Yuki, bassist Shimataro, and drummer Chiiko. On April 1, 2018, Toshiyuki was welcomed into the group as the new bassist. D_Drive aims to share the enjoyment and wonder of musical instruments not through words or lyrics, but through sheer sound. Each of the four members play actively as the lead, while also fulfilling each of their individual roles as a band. They take pride in the ensemble that has come about from having set members. They call their musical genre “driving rock,” and starting performing live in the Kansai region since January 2009. Now they have expanded their activities to the rest of Ja-pan, doing about 80 live shows and seminars each year.

Ediee Ironbunny is a cyborg guitarist who’s traveled from the year 2300. Rock and dis-tortion has disappeared from the world in his time, so he has traveled back to the past to restore the glory of rock and change history. His cyborg body was altered to withstand the pressure of time traveling; He only re-tains the parts of his human body that connect with musical instruments, like his fin-gertips. Ediee appeared in our era in November 2018 and appeared in NAMMShow2019 in January 2019 in California where he got his name out. In March the same year, he invited three female vocals to form the rock unit IRONBUNNY. They later released the mini album Iron Hummer Alternative which featured 80s-style classic hard rock ac-cented with updated phrasing. The overall sound has both nostalgic and contemporary elements. Ediee is a purist and believes that you can’t have rock music without long guitar solos and picking harmonics.

After working in various supporting roles and bands, YUI debuted with the single “Run to the Future” with CYNTIA under Bright Star Records in 2012. She played in the back band for Korean group KARA’s Tokyo Dome performance in 2013, and made her major debut with Victor Entertainment the same year. As the band’s main songwriter, she has composed “Senkou Strings,” the main theme song for animation Saint Seiya Omega in 2014 and “KISS KISS KISS,” the main theme song for TV series Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo in 2015. In 2016, YUI changed labels from Victor Entertainment to Village Again Association. The following year, she was diagnosed with focal dystonia, a neurological condition, on her right arm. After discussions with the other members and staff, it was announced that the band would be inactive for an indefinite period of time. Although YUI is not fully cured yet, she has been undergoing long-term medical treatment and has started taking on supporting roles and performing solo live shows as much as her health per-mits. She composed “x raison d’etre,” the 5th single on Kemono Friends unit X Japari-Dan’s debut album X・X・X, released on 8 July 2020. She has been engaging in a wide range of activities, such as acting as a consultant for the comic Girls Playing Guitar on Sunny Days (Hareta Hi ni Shojo ha Guitar wo), se-rialized in April 2020. She has also taught introductory educational DVDs on guitar chord theory, pentatonic scale, and blues-rock guitar.