Plaza on December 7, 2008 and the House of Blues in Los Angeles on December 10. Following the March 2009 release of their ninth studio album Kyūtai, Mucc held a sold-out 16-date nationwide tour from May to June. After performing in Sweden at Metaltown Festival in June, their Solid Sphere Tour began with a live in Russia on October 3, before featuring their first shows in Latin America (Chile and Mexico). The band completed the tour on November 16 in Japan at the JCB Hall. Mucc started 2010 with a concert on February 14 at the NHK Hall, before traveling to Taiwan for the March 14 Megaport Music Festival. The single "Yakusoku" was used as the opening theme to Night Raid 1931. The band performed at Summer Sonic on August 8. Returning to being an indie band on Danger Crue Records, Mucc released Karma on October 6. Three days later, they performed at a cultural festival at Yukke's alma mater Ibaraki Prefectural Ogawa High School, which was closing. The Chemical Parade tour took place between October and December. A European leg of the Chemical Parade tour was held in five countries throughout January 2011, while two Asian shows took place in April. At their May 21 and 22 Nippon Budokan shows, the band announced they would be signing to major label Sony Music Associated Records. The single "Akatsuki" was first sold exclusively at those concerts, before later being available as a digital download with all proceeds donated to aid the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. On July 15, Mucc performed at a concert commemorating the first anniversary of the death of Daisuke, former singer of the band Kagerou. They also performed at the V-Rock Festival '11 held at Saitama Super Arena on October 23, before releasing the single "Arcadia" which featured DJ Daishi Dance in November. 15th Anniversary and Six Nine Wars (2012–2016) Mucc's next single, "Nirvana", was released on March 7, 2012 and used as the opening theme song for the Inu x Boku SS anime. They performed at all three dates of Cali Gari's Chikashitsu tour that same month, as well as an April 30 Jealkb concert. Mucc covered "Jupiter" for July's Parade II -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick-. On May 4 they performed a concert in front of 40 fans at Shimamura Music in Mito, the same location they played their first show 15 years