LUNACY forms in Kanagawa (神奈川)神奈川.
Guitarist IPPEI (of SPEED-iD fame) would become their first roadie.
Inoran and J invites Sugizo and Shinya from PINOCCHIO to join their band. Vocalist YASU also secedes LUNACY at around the same time.
RYUICHI, then known as RAYLA, secedes SLAUGHTER and joins LUNACY. The band officially resumes activities as a five member group.
V. RYUICHI / G. SUGIZO / G. INORAN / B. J / D. Shinya (真矢)
The first live as LUNACY is held.
First oneman is held (150 people).
LUNACY is discovered by hide, and are then signed to EXTASY RECORDS.
First anniversary black clothes limited oneman held. Demotape LASTLY Is distributed for free (180 people sold out).
Performed as guests at the Gilles de Rais oneman live Kirigirisu Shoukougun
Oneman held (250 people sold out).
LUNACY changes their name to LUNA SEA.
Two consecutive onemans are held (both sold out)
Oneman held (330 people sold out).
ROCKIN'f PRESENTS '91 TOKYO GUERRILLA WARFARE ~真冬の東京ゲリラ戦~ takes place.
Coupling tour NUCLEAR FUSION TOUR Starts with Gilles de Rais and Sighs of Love Potion (5 lives)
First album release memorial live (800 people sold out in 30 minutes)
First album release memorial live held.
Special session band event held for the band's second anniversary.
Livehouse oneman tour UNDER THE NEW MOON TOUR EPISODE I Starts (7 lives over 2,800 people).
Second livehouse oneman tour UNDER THE NEW MOON TOUR EPISODE II Starts (22 lives over 3,500 people).
NUCLER FUSION tour final held.
UNDER THE NEW MOON tour final EPISODE held. First hall oneman (1,250 people sold out).
Third livehouse oneman tour UNDER THE NEW MOON TOUR EPISODE III Starts (15 lives over 7,000 people).
Performs at EXTASY SUMMIT 1991
UNDER THE NEW MOON TOUR EPISODE III FINAL is held as two consecutive oneman lives (over 2,500 people sold out).The band announce they will go major and joins MCA Victor.
Three secret lives in a day are held. The last one was a countdown live at Meguro (目黒) ROCKMAYKAN (鹿鳴館).
Official fanclub SLAVE opens.
TV event series of concerts TV JACK TOUR Starts in Aomori and continues on Nigata TV21 (March 16th), Ishikawa TV (March 18th) and Kumakoto Kenmin TV (April 12th).
Indies last tour DEAR SLAVES TOUR Starts (3 lives).
Indies last live and third anniversary black clothes limited live is held (200 people sold out).
First major tour LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1992 IMAGE OR REAL Starts (7 locations over 7,000 people)
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1992 IMAGE OR REAL アンコールツアー 東・名・阪スペシャル (ENCORE TOUR Tou・mei・han SPECIAL) tour starts (3 locations over 5,500 people)
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1992 AFTER the IMAGE starts (16 gigs over 16,000 people).
Black clothes-limited live in Osaka is held as part of the AFTER the IMAGE Tour.
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1992 AFTER the IMAGE tour final held.
Performed at EXTASY SUMMIT 1992
Performed at EXTASY SUMMIT 1992
Fanclub-limited live SLAVE Gentei GIG~SPECIAL PRESENT FROM LUNA SEA~ Is held.
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1993 SEARCH FOR MY EDEN starts (14 gigs over 26,000 people).
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1993 SEARCH FOR MY EDEN ENCORE tour starts (4 gigs over 24,000 people).
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR'93~94 THE GARDEN OF SINNERS held (20 gigs over 40,000 people).
Secret live Tsuki to Umi (月と海) held.
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR'93~94 THE GARDEN OF SINNERS additional live held.
Coupling tour L.S.B Is held with SOFT BALLET and BUCK-TICK (5 lives).
Two consecutive fanclub-limited onemans are held.
Secret live held.
ARENA TOUR 941216121712241227 starts (4 gigs).
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1995 MOTHER OF LOVE, MOTHER OF HATE starts (31 gigs over 63,000 people).
First Tokyo DOME oneman LUNATIC TOKYO Held. Tickets are sold out in one day.
LUNA SEA's seventh single, "END OF SORROW", becomes their first release to become certified platinum.
LUNA SEA's fifth full length album, "STYLE", becomes their first release to top the Oricon charts. It later becomes the 30th best selling album of the year in Japan.
Two more fanclub-limited lives held.
LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1996 UN ENDING STYLE starts (16 gigs over 120,000 people).
UN ENDING STYLE ENCORE TOUR 1996 ~TO RISE starts (28 gigs over 58,000 people).
*UN ENDING STYLE TOUR FINAL Christmas STADIUM ~Mayufu no Yagai~ (~真冬の野外~). Members announce they will take a one-year break.
Following the folding of the MCA Victor label, LUNA SEA are then drafted to the main Universal Music roster.
LUNA SEA resumes activities
LUNA SEA's first compilation album, "SINGLES", becomes their first release to sell over a million copies. The next release of the band's that was released less than 8 months later, their sixth album "SHINE", would also sell over a million copies.
Fanclub limited oneman tour starts (3 lives).
Two consecutive lives WALT DISNEY PICTURES PRESENTS MULAN MEETS LUNA SEA 1998 REVIVE Mafuyu no Yagai (真夏の野外) held.
WALT DISNEY PICTURES PRESENTS MULAN MEETS LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1998 SHINING BRIGHTLY starts (33 gigs over 150,000 people).
IDO PRESENTS LUNA SEA CONCERT TOUR 1998 SHINING BRIGHTLY FINAL END OF PERIOD in TOKYO DOME two consecutive tour final gigs (total over 100,000 people).
LUNA SEA FIRST ASIAN TOUR 1999 starts (3 gigs in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Shanghai, over 9,000 people)
LUNA SEA 10TH ANNIVERSARY live [NEVER SOLD OUT] CAPACITY ∞ oneman gig is held.
LUNA SEA announces they will reunite for one night only and the event will be called GOD BLESS YOU ~One Night Déjàvu~. Tickets for the live reportedly sell out in less than 5 minutes.
GOD BLESS YOU ~One Night Déjàvu~ takes place at the Tokyo Dome, and is broadcast on NHK.
LUNA SEA reunites once more to perform at the hide memorial summit.
LUNA SEA announces its official reunion.
LUNA SEA 20th ANNIVERSARY WORLD TOUR REBOOT -to the New Moon- starts. (8 gigs)
Bochum Ruhr Congress
Hong Kong Asia World Expo
Taipei Trade Center
Former vocalist Yasu passes away.
LUNA SEA live 2012-2013 The End of the Dream starts.
Taiwan Neo Studio
Taiwan Neo Studio
Hong Kong AsiaWorld-Expo Arena
Thailand Impact Arena
Singapore The Star Theatre
25th anniversary live LUNA SEA 25th ANNIVERSARY live -The Unfinished MOON-
LUNA SEA 25th ANNIVERSARY live TOUR THE LUNATIC -A Liberated Will- starts (22 gigs).
LUNA SEA 25th ANNIVERSARY live TOUR THE LUNATIC -A Liberated Will- starts (12 gigs).
LUNA SEA 25th ANNIVERSARY live TOUR THE LUNATIC -A Liberated Will- FINAL held.
LUNA SEA produced festival LUNATIC FEST. Held for two consecutive days.
LUNA SEA live TOUR 2018 The LUV -World left behind- starts (18 gigs)
LUNA SEA The Anniversary 2018 The LUV -World left behind- FINAL held.
LUNA SEA produced festival LUNATIC FEST. 2018 Is held for the second time.
Held two days oneman live LUNA SEA 30th anniversary live -Story of the ten thousand days-
Performed in Hong Kong at AsiaWorld-Expo Hall 10.
Two days oneman LUNA SEA 30th Anniversary LIVE LUNATIC X'MAS 2019 Held.
LUNA SEA 30th Anniversary Tour 2020 -CROSS THE UNIVERSE- starts.
LUNA SEA 30th Anniversary Tour 2020 -CROSS THE UNIVERSE- is suspended due to COVID-19. Out of the 26 gigs planned only two are held.
Machida Shimin Hall
Two days fanclub limited oneman SLAVE Gentei GIG 2020 Held.
Machida Shimin Hall
Oneman LUNA SEA -RELOAD- held.
Oneman LUNA SEA -RELOAD- held.
LUNA SEA 30th Anniversary CROSS THE UNIVERSE -THE DAWN- starts (3 days).
LUNA SEA 30th Anniversary Tour 2020 -CROSS THE UNIVERSE- restarts.
Sapporo Bunka Geijutsu Gekijou hitaru
Sapporo Bunka Geijutsu Gekijou hitaru
Minamisoma Shimin Bunka Kaikan Yume Hat Dai Hall
Minamisoma Shimin Bunka Kaikan Yume Hat Dai Hall
Fanclub limited live SLAVE Meeting 2021 Held.
LUNA SEA 30th Anniversary Tour -CROSS THE UNIVERSE- GRAND FINAL held.
LUNA SEA 30th Anniversary Tour -CROSS THE UNIVERSE- GRAND FINAL held.
CROSS tour rescheduled lives in Osaka held (2 lives).
Oneman "LUNA SEA 復活祭 -A NEW VOICE-" (Fukkatsusai) held for two consecutive days.
Oneman "黒服限定GIG 2022 LUNACY" (Kurofuku Gentei live 2022 LUNACY) held for two consecutive days. The live is limited to people wearing black clothes.
Oneman "THE BEST OF LUNA SEA 2023 A Rosy Show" held.
Musashino no Mori Sougou Sports Plaza Main Arena
Musashino no Mori Sougou Sports Plaza Main Arena
Oneman "THE BEST OF LUNA SEA 2023 A Show for You" held.
Performed a secret live at Meguro (目黒) ROCKMAYKAN (鹿鳴館).
LUNA SEA DUAL ARENA TOUR 2023 "MOTHER OF LOVE, MOTHER OF HATE" "UN ENDING STYLE" starts. The band performs for two days at the same venue, the first day being part of the "MOTHER OF LOVE, MOTHER OF HATE" tour and the second part of the "UN ENDING STYLE" tour, respectively.
Yokohama K Arena Yokohama
Yokohama K Arena Yokohama
Fukuoka MARINMESSE Fukuoka B Kan
Fukuoka MARINMESSE Fukuoka B Kan
Sendai Xebio Arena Sendai
Sendai Xebio Arena Sendai
Fanclub-limited event "SLAVE MEETING 2023 DUAL TALK live / [2nd] another side of STYLE" held.
LUNA SEA DUAL ARENA TOUR 2023 "MOTHER OF LOVE, MOTHER OF HATE" "UN ENDING STYLE" ends.
"LUNA SEA 35th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2024 ERA TO ERA -EPISODE 1-" starts.
Takasaki Geijutsu Gekijou Daigekijou
"LUNA SEA 35th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2024 ERA TO ERA -EPISODE 1-" ends.
"LUNA SEA 35th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2024 ERA TO ERA -EPISODE 2-" starts.
Sapporo Bunka Geijutsu Gekijou hitaru
Sapporo Bunka Geijutsu Gekijou hitaru
"LUNA SEA 35th ANNIVERSARY TOUR 2024 ERA TO ERA -EPISODE 2-" ends.
LUNA SEA is an active visual kei band in Kanagawa. They are part of the kote keisoft visual subgenres. They have been active since 1986.