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===Reunion and Later Activity (1998–Present)===

Lazy reunited in 1997–1998, releasing the studio album ''Happy Time'' in July 1998 and undertaking a reunion tour. A second reunion album, ''Earth Ark II'' (宇宙船地球号II), followed in 2002. The band suffered significant losses in subsequent years: bassist Hiroyuki Tanaka died of heart failure on September 1, 2006, at age 46, and drummer Munetaka Higuchi died of liver cancer on November 30, 2008, at age 49. Later Lazy projects incorporated guest musicians Tamio Okuda and Kazuyoshi Saito in their places. In 2009, the band — billed as "Ultimate Lazy for Mazinger" — recorded a new version of their 1980 single "Kanjite Night" with Kageyama's Jam Project for the anime ''Shin Mazinger Shogeki! Z Hen''. A further single, "Reckless," appeared in 2011 for the animated film ''Towa no Quon'', and a 40th-anniversary single, ''Slow and Steady'', was released in December 2017.