Following in the footsteps of Orange Range and High and Mighty Color, guitar rockers Stereopony just might be the next Okinawa band to hit it big in the fickle world of Japanese pop.  Formed in 2007, the all-girl trio, still in highschool, got their first break on the rock radio program School of Lock!, a Tokyo FM radio program whose name plays on the 2003 Jack Black movie School of Rock, and where the radio personalities are known as senseis, or teachers.  The band...

Following in the footsteps of Orange Range and High and Mighty Color, guitar rockers Stereopony just might be the next Okinawa band to hit it big in the fickle world of Japanese pop.  Formed in 2007, the all-girl trio, still in highschool, got their first break on the rock radio program School of Lock!, a Tokyo FM radio program whose name plays on the 2003 Jack Black movie School of Rock, and where the radio personalities are known as senseis, or teachers.  The band was soon pegged as a potential big player, and their first single, "Hitohira no hanabira", was granted the slot as the seventeenth ending theme for the anime series Bleach, bringing them more recognition.  Their second single, "Namida no muko", was released in February 2009, serving as the second opening theme to the second series of Mobile Suit Gundam 00.  A chance encounter with idol YUI in an Okinawa recording studio led to the single "I do it", yet another Bleach theme song.