X Japan’s vocalist Toshl steps up his game and levels up from X to Y! In the latest commercial to promote Yahoo Mobile’s (Y!mobile) student discount, Toshl takes the role of a rebellious transfer student and converts his new classmates and teacher into joining his band, Y!BAND.

It starts with the teacher introducing the new transfer student.

Teacher: Please welcome our transfer student, Toshl-kun!

Toshl then cooly enters the classroom and immediately yells.

Toshl: Everyone… Let’s start a band!

Student: A band?

From there, his new band Y!BAND is assembled, composed by the teacher on guitar, actress Riho Yoshioka; student on keyboard, famous composer Takashi Niigaki; cat student on drums, Yahoo mobile’s mascot Futenyan; and student on wooden flute, child actress Mana Ashida. It then completely derails and the classroom is turned into a live house where the band starts singing promotion lyrics in the melody of Y.M.C.A. Toshl ends the commercial by yelling “Y, is the best!”.

We are also taken through a behind-the-scenes in a separate video where we can see what went into making the Y!BAND commercial.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1l6V6vBdrA Video can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Ｔｏｓｈｌ、芦田愛菜らとバンド結成！？ (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1l6V6vBdrA)

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