After having left Shaking Hands, Buck-Tick started their own

After having left Shaking Hands, Buck-Tick started their own management company, Banker Ltd., on January 31, 1996, and appointed Toll as its president. They also started a new fan club, Fish Tank. On June 21, they released their ninth studio album, Cosmos , which featured a brighter sound than was usual for the band and also electronic, cyberpunk -influenced music in such songs as “Living on the Net”. Tour 1996 Chaos started in July, and was going to be followed by the Chaos After Dark Tour in December. However, Sakurai fell seriously ill with acute peritonitis while at a photo shoot in Nepal . When he was told how serious his condition was, he wanted to be flown back to Tokyo so that if he died, he could die at home, but once back in Japan “he felt so relieved that he was able to recover”. He was hospitalized for about a month.