Peelander-Z

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Peelander-Z
Peelander-Z performing at the Asian Heritage celebration in New York; left to right: Peelander Pink, Peelander Yellow and Peelander Green
Background information
Origin	Japan (band members) Buffalo, New York (band)
Genres	Punk rock
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Eat Rice Swell Geykido Comet Chicken Ranch
Members	Kengo Hioki (Peelander Yellow) Yumiko Kanazaki (Peelander Pink)
Past members	Kazuki Yamamoto (Peelander Blue) Kotaro Tsukada (Peelander Red) Akihiko Naruse Testuya Hayakawa (Peelander Black) Akiteru Ito (Peelander Purple) Ryo Tanaka (Peelander Green)
Website	Official Website

Peelander-Z is a Japanese-American punk rock band formed in 1998 and based in Austin, Texas. They bill themselves as a "Japanese Action Comic Punk band hailing from the Z area of Planet Peelander". While the founding members of Peelander-Z were all born in Japan, they first met and formed their band while living in Buffalo, New York.^[2] The original three members of the band were billed as Peelander Yellow, Peelander Red, and Peelander Blue. Later members of the band have adopted the same naming structure, with mostly different colors, although one name, Peelander Green, has been used by two different drummers.

They perform on stage and appear in color-coordinated costumes, which they state are not costumes, but their skin. The costumes range from sentai style suits, to kimono, to rubber Playmobil style wigs. There is also a tiger costume and a giant squid/guitar costume to coincide with the song "Mad Tiger". Another aspect of their routine is their on-stage antics such as human bowling (diving head-first into bowling pins), pretending to hit each other with chairs in imitation of pro-wrestlers, and mid-performance piggyback rides. They often allow audience members on stage to join in on the fun, and often dive into the audience or hang from a balcony as part of their act.