Akio Shibafumi did not decide to resume band activities. An audition was not held for new members, instead, acquaintances to the band members, drummer Satoshi Yamaguchi and bassist Yusuke Takeda, were added to the group without the members even having their skills trialled.[7][8] Takeda
met the band members in August 2003 as a member of a different band performing in the Yokohama High School Music Festival.[8] The band immediately began recording songs, and by July released a
second single, "Kiseki," and performed a three-month Japan-wide tour.[1][8] Immediately after the end of the tour, the band started work on their second album, Radwimps 2: Hatten Tojō, which was finalized by the end of the year and released in March.[8] Directly after the release, the band departed of more than 100,000 copies.[14] In this time, the band's older releases, such as R
