A few years ago, a former member of Shiritsu Ebisu Chugaku who had left the idol world to have a semi-normal life about ten years earlier turned up on Twitter and Insta. It turned out that she kept in touch with a couple of other former Ebichu members who had stayed with Stardust as non-idol talents. One of them had done some work with an underground/emo/indie photographer/video director named Hana, who had a bunch of friends on Insta who did equally obscure/artsy/won't-make-any-money things, so I wound up following several of them without really knowing who they were, because even now, even at my age, my basic pretentious-obscure hipster instincts are 100%
on, and anyway, they're a cool bunch of hip young Japanese artists.
One of the more cool/interesting people in Hana's crowd was a sort of waif-punk girl named utaha.89 who did a lot of fashion shots, played acoustic guitar, and sang a bit, although it was hard to tell how serious she was about music. So I was a little confused when her face started showing up in my YT suggestions an hour or two ago. I was even more confused when I realized that it was a link to the latest Wednesday Campanella MV. It turns out that she's their new singer. And songwriter. Duh.