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I found out this news through the Project Sekai community and thought I would share it here.
For some background:
The former music group TUYU announced they will be deleting all music that was made off the group's producer, Pusu, due to his attempted murder controversy.
Tuyu was a Japanese band created in 2019 which included the members Pusu (producer and guitarist), Rei (Vocalist), and Miro (Keyboard).
I found out this news through the Project Sekai community and thought I would share it here.
For some background:
The former music group TUYU announced they will be deleting all music that was made off the group's producer, Pusu, due to his attempted murder controversy.
Tuyu was a Japanese band created in 2019 which included the members Pusu (producer and guitarist), Rei (Vocalist), and Miro (Keyboard).
Pusu's Attempted Murder
On May 31st news reports came out that Pusu (30 years old) was arrested after stabbing and attempting to murder his teenage year old girlfriend and trying to commit suicide after.
The teenage year old girlfriend was found unconscious and taken to a hospital, but did live.
The age of the girlfriend was not really specified. I've seen reports saying she was 15. Others say 18, or just in the general 16-19 age range. I also saw it was reported that they were together for a few years?
Of what I understand, Pusu never went to jail for this. He pleaded insanity and was released after a short amount of time in a mental hospital.
He was officially released on August 30th
He tried to continue his music activities online after all of this, angering many people online.
He also never broke up with his girlfriend. In September Pusu posted love letters he received from his girlfriend while in the mental hospital where she says she still loves him. She even testified to get him out of his sentence and they even still live together to this day.
I will not summarize what was in the letters, but here are links to a twitter post where someone translated them to english.
When Pusu was released, he still had access to Tuyu's twitter and posted this letter defending himself:
And here is a translation someone did on twitter:
On May 31st news reports came out that Pusu (30 years old) was arrested after stabbing and attempting to murder his teenage year old girlfriend and trying to commit suicide after.
The teenage year old girlfriend was found unconscious and taken to a hospital, but did live.
The age of the girlfriend was not really specified. I've seen reports saying she was 15. Others say 18, or just in the general 16-19 age range. I also saw it was reported that they were together for a few years?
Of what I understand, Pusu never went to jail for this. He pleaded insanity and was released after a short amount of time in a mental hospital.
He was officially released on August 30th
He tried to continue his music activities online after all of this, angering many people online.
He also never broke up with his girlfriend. In September Pusu posted love letters he received from his girlfriend while in the mental hospital where she says she still loves him. She even testified to get him out of his sentence and they even still live together to this day.
I will not summarize what was in the letters, but here are links to a twitter post where someone translated them to english.
When Pusu was released, he still had access to Tuyu's twitter and posted this letter defending himself:
And here is a translation someone did on twitter:
Pusu Previous Controversy
This is not the first time Pusu has caused trouble for the group.
Pusu has full rights to the group since he's the group's creator.
Back in 2023 Pusu canceled the group's contract with their record label, Pony Canyon, without the other member's permission.
This then lead to a series of tweets between Pusu and the other 2 members. In Pusu's tweets he was saying how he was hoping to get a large sum of money to just live the rest of his life off of without having to work. He also said he has been neglecting his work and his fans and tried to apologize.
I won't summarize everything here, but here is the reddit page for the group which has everything on this.
This is not the first time Pusu has caused trouble for the group.
Pusu has full rights to the group since he's the group's creator.
Back in 2023 Pusu canceled the group's contract with their record label, Pony Canyon, without the other member's permission.
This then lead to a series of tweets between Pusu and the other 2 members. In Pusu's tweets he was saying how he was hoping to get a large sum of money to just live the rest of his life off of without having to work. He also said he has been neglecting his work and his fans and tried to apologize.
I won't summarize everything here, but here is the reddit page for the group which has everything on this.
Aftermath
After his arrest, TUYU promptly announced their disbandment on June 8th, and by June 12th Project Sekai announced all TUYU songs would be removed from the game.
As I mentioned, before, Pusu was still trying to make music and profit off of Tuyu's music even after all of this.
Many fans have been calling for a boycott of Tuyu's music, which was never 100% taken off of streaming services, since it seems Pusu still profited off all of their things.
(Of what I understand, certain songs were removed from places like Spotify and Apple Music, but I don't think everything was deleted from everywhere?)
On November 25th, this announcement was made on the group's twitter:
What it pretty much says is that they have heard everyone's criticisms and feedback and will be removing all work made by Pusu at the end of the year (December 31st 2024). This also includes the ending song they made for the anime Tokyo Revengers.
While Pusu still has rights as the creator of the group and makes profit off of them in other ways, fans are happy that at least now Pusu will make less profit off the group.
I home I summarized all of this ok. Please let me know if I made any errors and if any of the information is incorrect.
After his arrest, TUYU promptly announced their disbandment on June 8th, and by June 12th Project Sekai announced all TUYU songs would be removed from the game.
As I mentioned, before, Pusu was still trying to make music and profit off of Tuyu's music even after all of this.
Many fans have been calling for a boycott of Tuyu's music, which was never 100% taken off of streaming services, since it seems Pusu still profited off all of their things.
(Of what I understand, certain songs were removed from places like Spotify and Apple Music, but I don't think everything was deleted from everywhere?)
On November 25th, this announcement was made on the group's twitter:
What it pretty much says is that they have heard everyone's criticisms and feedback and will be removing all work made by Pusu at the end of the year (December 31st 2024). This also includes the ending song they made for the anime Tokyo Revengers.
While Pusu still has rights as the creator of the group and makes profit off of them in other ways, fans are happy that at least now Pusu will make less profit off the group.
I home I summarized all of this ok. Please let me know if I made any errors and if any of the information is incorrect.