After receiving the jackets, Marlo also gifted some members of the group katanas he had made by Curtis to help them complete the aeshetic. This then became the official identifier of a full Yokai member, with each being granted a jacket and katana after being fully initiated into the crew. After katanas became common in Los Santos, Yokai had custom thermal katanas made by Lance through Procyon.
Kumi-in are fully patched members of Yokai, on joining they are granted a personal jacket and the right to wear a blank jacket until it its made and the right to carry a katana, also the ability to recruit Shatei.
Since then, K-Pop has come to rival J-Pop in popularity. In August 2010, KARA and Girls' Generation (also known as SNSD, mostly in the Western world) crashed the Japanese charts with their singles "Mister" and "Genie" respectively. Both of those songs also had been hits in their native Korea, and, after undergoing some translation, proved just as popular in Japan. Today, both outfits have had runs at the top of the charts that have broken sales records for foreign artists in Japan, while their debut albums have all been certified as at least platinum. Girls' Generation's self-titled album even went double platinum, a first for any Korean girl group.
More significantly, Korean pop groups are becoming ingrained in this island nation's music landscape. While Western artists like Lady Gaga and Beyoncé are definitely popular in Japan, they are essentially fleeting visitors, only stopping by when they have a new album to hock. They'll fly over, do some TV appearances and maybe a brief tour, then vanish. This latest crop of K-Pop artists, though, is sticking around. KARA and Girls'Generation are becoming regulars on television, whether it's to perform a single or just being lampooned by the Japanese version of Saturday Night Live. In 2011, both groups released songs exclusively for the Japanese market, sung entirely in Japanese (the members of each group have learned Japanese), which have been predictably popular. Korean groups such as 2NE1, Brown Eyed Girls, and 2PM also have followed them into Japan. The latter, a boy band, debuted their first single at No. 4 on Japan's Oricon Charts, the nation's most prominent music-ranking list.