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Highlights from recent (and not-so-recent) TOKYO TEFUTEFU streams:

• cute, funny, and cringey childhood stories
• the members react to people mocking the group
• why the girls often feel helpless
• what TEFUTEFU is really all about
• why you're not just part of the crowd
• and why you're already a Mirage👇

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• When Lust asked Imamura-san why he gave her the name "Lust," he replied, "Because I hoped you'd grow into that kind of person." In other words, he wanted her to one day reveal her mature, alluring side to the world.
• Lust also laughingly claimed that, while she might not embody all seven deadly sins, she definitely has at least five of them covered.
• According to Chimura, she used to be a hardcore PC player of Phantasy Star Online 2. She openly admitted she "spent a devilish amount of money" on the game.
• One story from her online adventures: during a massive 100-player raid, the boss wiped out literally everyone on the server... except Chimu. She used a mass resurrection item, brought the entire server back to life, and was ridiculously proud of herself.
• Lust confessed that, as a kid, she had a habit of chewing and tasting absolutely everything. Fruit-scented erasers, cat food, dog food... she even tried drinking liquid school glue.
• While talking about elementary and middle school trends, the girls brought up Body Stitch (ボディステッチ) — a bizarre fad where teenagers would sew thread through the very top layer of skin on their arms (without drawing blood) to create little patterns like stars. Both Lust and Chimura actually did it!
• A pretty unexpected fact about Chimu: she absolutely loves camping. As a child, she often went camping with her family, who would even set up camp beds outdoors. She fondly recalled lying in the mountains at night, watching a meteor shower overhead.
• While talking about childhood memories of Golden Week, Lust shared that her family often traveled to southern islands for vacation, including Saipan, Hawaii, and Guam.
• During school holidays, Ouhi-san often helped her parents with household chores in exchange for a "salary." She was extremely frugal and entrepreneurial from a young age, carefully saving everything she earned.
• In complete contrast, Lust laughed as she recalled trying to act like a rich kid and spending all of her allowance on her friends.
• As for Chimura, back in elementary school, she'd sometimes want to sing karaoke so badly that she'd talk her reluctant friends into going by offering to pay for everyone herself... only to end up spending all of her allowance too.
• In Lust's family, everyone always had dinner together. But because they often waited for her father to get home from work, dinner sometimes wouldn't start until 9 or even 10 p.m. According to her, when she's hungry, she turns feral, just like the people in those Snickers commercials—so she'd stomp her feet and throw little tantrums yelling, "I'm hungry! I'm hungry!"
• Tomorrow, June 28, TOKYO TEFUTEFU will hold an important concert at SHIBUYA PLEASURE PLEASURE—the very venue where the group made its debut on December 31, 2020. The members themselves find it remarkable that every current member has been with the group since day one, and they firmly believe there's profound meaning in the fact that they're still able to move forward together as this lineup. With that in mind, returning to the stage where their journey began feels especially symbolic.
• The members noted that over their five-and-a-half-year journey, TEFUTEFU has pushed through countless difficult periods. For example, after their debut, their first shows drew decent crowds thanks to existing codomomental fans, but by the very next tour, hardly anyone was left. From there, every stage of the group's history brought new challenges, leaving them with no choice but to keep growing and pushing forward. They emphasized that many of the hardest moments have remained hidden behind the scenes—but they want to pour everything they felt through those moments into this upcoming performance, so they can truly share with their fans everything they've carried in their hearts over these past five and a half years.

>Chimura Shifumi: “Like, the times Ouhi-san would cry in the dressing room... Things like that happened too. But there are also things we could only gain because we made it through all of it.”

According to the members, they occasionally face mocking comments such as:
“Lol, your group's still around?”

https://reddit.com/link/1uh2ctv/video/64xesjbpqt9h1/player

“In a way, we live our lives admiring that dazzling world that's almost too bright for us to bear. And in order to reach it, we throw ourselves into the mud, struggle again and again, and keep trying our best.”

“And we want you to look at those mud-covered struggles of ours and think, ‘They're the ones I want to cheer for!’”

https://reddit.com/link/1uh2ctv/video/mm7oul4qqt9h1/player

“All we can do is keep saying, ‘Please come!’”

“We can't show up at your place and drag you along.”

“...But if we could, we'd honestly go pick up every single one of you ourselves!”

https://reddit.com/link/1uh2ctv/video/mfow18sqqt9h1/player

“We may not look it, but we're actually really weak.”

“We've had shows where only three people showed up.”

“But even if only one person comes, that's enough to give us the strength to keep going!”

https://reddit.com/link/1uh2ctv/video/td82wvhrqt9h1/player

Try telling them you're not a Mirage after this 😶

https://reddit.com/link/1uh2ctv/video/o68emkgsqt9h1/player

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Including both Asia and Europe footage! Out on 5th August! Is anyone planning to get it?

Here are the lyrics that are stuck in my head at the moment.

Datte datte Boku wa se ka~.

If any one knows the song I’m talking about please let me know.

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