Ending with the band colour purple before going on indefinite hiatus 🥹 Yuka still the unofficial 9th member as the de facto costume designer 🥹
That said they officially announced formation in Mar 2013 and shortened the official name by early 2014. (I wrote the early versions of their wikipedia page.)
It says smth abt me that my first jdrama was TRICK and the first one I watched when I returned again to jdramas was SPEC 😂 That said, Dir. Tsutsumi has obvious flaws in his directing and writing that I am very aware of, as much as I enjoyed the two series he produced. He tends to be very detailed, but at some point he always surpasses his threshold of control and stuff starts unravelling and he loses rein.