Edward Kobayashi, also one of the 10 recent Kyodo newbies, shows the importance of having a little fun. The newbies dressed up as Super Smash Brothers characters for their song in the 2007 Kyodo Taiko spring concert.

[Kyodo Taiko at UCLA was the first collegiate taiko group to form in North America, founded under UCLA's Nikkei Student Union. Striving to live up to the group’s name, Kyodo Taiko functions as a family, sharing the joy and spirit of taiko with more and more of the surrounding community each year.]