80_pan to disband in June

[Tokyograph News]

Music group 80_pan has announced that they are breaking up. Currently consisting of members Tomomi Ogasawara (23) and Mako Okina (23), 80_pan will hold their last concert next month in Tokyo's Roppongi district.

The group has undergone constant transformation since they first formed in 2004. They began as a pop trio named Harenchi Punch. In 2007 they changed their name to 80?PAN! (pronounced "Hare Pan"), and the third member Saya Ozora left the same year. They briefly experimented with rock for the LOUD PARK 2007 festival, but a year later they reinvented themselves under the name 80_pan, this time in the electro/new rave genre.

Ogasawara and Okina eventually decided to disband, but they stated on their official website that they both hope to start anew with separate pursuits. Their final concert will be at Roppongi Morph on June 19. The show is titled "Kaisan Punch, Hakusen ~Start Line," with the last half taken from the name of their debut single from 2005.

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