Very sad. Ryo is a really amazing musician, singer and compositor.
He wrote on his fanclub blog about the disbanding, I don’t feel comfortable talking a lot about it since its paid content and we are not supposed to leak, but 90% of the post is saying about how shitty Shizuki was (for example, he used all the money they gathered together for their first visual costumes for himself), but that in the end they were really good friends. He also said that he was already desiring to disband, so that we should not blame Shizuki for that. This was just the final trigger.
Hope he doesn’t give up on music, tho.
There’s a strong theory between japanese fans that if Ryo + Ashmaze instrumentists form a band together it would be a whole damn MONSTER BAND that would sell like hot cakes. I believe that too, so some dark side of me kinda wish that Ashmaze disband now… lol