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Yes, extensively pre-2020 while he was trying to promote his solo album Digital Native (2018). He went to the Philippines, United States, Germany, and France (maybe more but this is what I remember off the top of my head). Prior to this he attended Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's New York tour date in 2013 while she was promoting Nanda Collection (here's a photo of them dining in NYC with Pamyu's art director Sebastian Masuda).

He's an idol producer, they're doing a Liar Game anime adaptation that I'm sure he'll be involved in, Kyary is still active, he co-produced the soundtrack for that videogame movie that's done inordinately well at the box office. I don't think he'll do another solo.

Tragically it is still her vocals on it and I've never been a fan of her voice so I'm good lol (aside from the whole tired Harajuku kawaii thing which also never really excited me)... Instrumentally it's nice, it reminds me a little of this track from Shinichi Osawa's SO2 album:

I tend to think if he'd stayed with Yamaha his career would look different right now. BUT a long time ago he chose to leave them and signed up with his ~friend's company that has the sole M.O. of using Harajuku culture for profit so here we are, at the crossroads of him producing idol music for idol groups who have [Discontinued Fashion Magazine] + [Discontinued Fashion Magazine] as their naming schematic while evoking absolutely not a single thing about that era of pop culture otherwise... Anyway.

Probably cooked, but I will say I only ever wanted to see them in a club. I feel that was the environment their style of performing shone the most in: relatively small and intimate (depending on the venue), and their type of music obviously just made sense for the surroundings (regardless of later attempts to make big ostentatious dance tracks for stuff like the Wave Runner hall tour).

WOF was already listed for preorders with a tracklist and cover art revealed before it got renamed (in light of the March 2011 Tohoku earthquake/tsunami disaster; the release date was also originally slated for late March and got pushed to May due to this), so there was never a song called Killer Wave. The title Killer Wave referred to a "killer wave of sound" and doubled as an oblique reference to the lossless digital audio format WAV (he would later do this with Wave Runner).