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Slated to host a show on 4/18 at Ikebukuro EDGE (w/ 万鬼隊 / type:『seeD』/ MIDGARD / 爆烈ストーム!! & others), DAYDALA announced on March 27th that they would render ticket #1 invalid due to reselling for profit. This is not altogether unheard of -- tickets that have been resold have been banned from entry, but it's usually for bigger bands. However, it seems the holder of #1 -- we'll call her S -- was a little confused by this choice. She tweeted that she had definitely been the original purchaser of the ticket through legitimate means, and eventually posted the DMs exchanged between her and the official DAYDALA account. She was even able to provide a receipt of the purchase (these receipts do not contain the ticket number), but they opted to offer her only a refund. When S pressed them to provide proof that #1 was in fact resold, they posted screenshots from tanuki (this is historical -- it is an open secret that bands and management browse the board, but an official account posting screenshots of 1) a selling post and 2) a tanumail conversation is unheard of). The listing originally posted on tanuki claims to have tickets #1-3. The chances of this poster being S are already fairly low as her receipt shows the price of one ticket. The odds of picking up #1 and #2-3 are stacked very high against her unless she juggles multiple SMS-verified accounts and somehow obtained #1 and #2-3, or is selling on behalf of a friend who was coincidentally able to purchase #2-3. More importantly though, the proof photo doesn't show #1 at all. Additionally, the source of the tanumail screenshot is also up for debate -- unless the band was trying to purchase the resold tickets themselves (something that has been done before, but generally by larger bands b/c I don't think DAYDALA could have afforded even the original 15,000y asking price), it seems they received it as a "tip" from someone else. This really opened the floodgates -- why weren't #2 and #3 banned as well if this was the source? Why was #1 banned despite being the only one without solid evidence? Their next step was to ban all of #1-3 but provide refunds upon further discussion with S. By this point tanuki was in an absolute frothing rage. People posting "for sale" posts for numbers 4-100 in a joking attempt to get them invalidated descended as DAYDALA thread after DAYDALA thread was created. Member Haku attempted various forms of damage control on his individual twitter, but the horde was angry and wanted justice for S. Finally, they rescinded their invalidation for all three tickets and gave a heartfelt apology. Masato of meta-kei/tanuki-kei/meme-kei band kaitou sentai lined up to take a shot at DAYDALA for their slip-up: "I was tired and sleeping forever. Good morning. I had a dream that the #1 ticket I worked so hard to get was suddenly rendered invalid. Hope it doesn't come true..."

BLESS THIS MESS 1st EP "blind Circus." will be released at 2018/07/04. Ba.Rega (ex-TOON-FACTORY --> SRASH NOTES GARDEN --> NIA) has officially joined. Individual Look: vo.柳(Yanagi) gt.立石恁 (Tateishi Jin) ba.Rega TrackList: 01. 蝋涙に死す。 02. MIRROR MIRROR 03. DISDAIN 04. Lost Sphear 05. VENOM

Cassis is overrated as fuck. It always gets skipped whenever i listen to lives, or NIL.

he's out x

My lastest CD buys

The legality of ticket reselling in Japan is up for debate after Ticket Camp (formerly the biggest ticket resale marketplace) shut down. I assume they were pressured by Johnny's because they got in legal trouble for some non-ticket related issue, but in the articles I read it mentioned the Kobe district court ruled that buying tickets for the sole purpose of resale is considered an act of fraud. Ticket Camp caused a huge backlash so it reflects poorly on large-scale bands who don't deal with resellers... but for these minor bands I think reselling everything with a number <10 is pretty much the culture of vk, lmao.

I am quite sure I am about to offend @YuyoDrift with this, but I absolutely loathed FLCL. If one anime was ever the cause for anxiety attacks due to sensory overload, it would be this one. What a nonsensical, ugly and ill-conceived piece of garbage. Whoever today still claims this to be a 'coming-of-age' masterpiece needs to straighten themselves out; there is absolutely no story, no plot and no secretive and underlying hidden meaning in this whatsoever.

yass sabotage your scene with tanuki twitter receipts, kingz

Cardi B ain't safe from the legendary trap nihonjin chanteuse and her food-court crowds I wonder how long this embarrassing phase is going to last for her is she gonna drop an official mosburger urban EP is Japanese rap doomed or saved

Legend says that if a person meets their doppelganger, they shall die. Let's hope ddrm never has this band as support.

Not really art but I didn't want to bump the artist thread for false hope. Finally put a string together to hang up (almost) all the Mei cheki...not sure what I'll do when I get more, maybe under my key collection lol.

Nakigahara, Ito, Calm Envy and Sumire are my top gazette ballads. Others that are worth mentioning are Hanakotoba, ju nana sai, reila (but only because it has some great instrumental sections here and there) and I don't think it really counts as a ballad but Kyomu No Owari Hakozume No Mokushi is fantastic and catchy af. In terms of worst ballads I'm repulsed by guren. I've even learned to like cassis in the last couple of years, but I can't stand more than a minute of guren.

ex RAINDIA S (now Shun Suzuki) act as support guitarist

ex-游彩 (Yusai) members new limited-period session band, "おろよしセッション" (OroYoshi session) has formed and they will hold their first live on June 16 in Osaka. [lineup] Gt.慶 (Yoshi) (ex-游彩 (Yusai)) Ba.大蛇 (Orochi) (ex-游彩 (Yusai)) Twitter

it was announced at their oneman live [祝！11周年記念特別公演！「東京ドーム総会」] at 2018/04/07 at TOKYO DOME CITY HALL that ダウト (D=OUT) new maxi-single "閃光花火" (Senkouhanabi) will be released at 2018/05/23 (2 types) Limited edition (1944yen) will include CD (2 songs) and DVD including "閃光花火" (Senkouhanabi) (PV+MAKING) Regular edition (1296yen) will include CD (2 songs) only [tracklist] 01. 閃光花火 (Senkouhanabi) 02. 自虐の詩 (Jigyaku no Uta) they will hold their oneman live tour "御礼参リクエストAWARD～投票亡き者は鬼畜セトリの刑に処す～" since 2018/06/02 at Nagoya ell.FITS ALL to 2018/06/30 at Sapporo BESSIE HALL.

@anadentonetickets are all numbered in japan, so if you get between 1-10 for example, you are the first/second/tenth person allowed in the venue and almost guaranteed a front row spot (the actual fan politics behind where you get to stand are more complicated but that's the short explanation)

Nao from Kagrra, is undoubtedly high up there with J from LUNA SEA as one of the best bassist that has ever been in the scene. Listening to old Kagrra music, in particular their first four mini albums, still leave me surprised at how good he is and I have known these songs for like 15 years. His bass line are tasty.

The man has been through enough.

"just to find something that's actually related to what the whole forum is about" lol well if you are searching in the international music subforum and you still think that's bad then maybe we do need an international VK subfrum. international music is international music, you like the artists or not. nothing wrong with all those david guettas or kpop artists. they are in the section they belong to.

While fairness is a good concept and all, this is VK. If a fan is willing to pay big bucks to obtain the “best tickets”, which the reseller will turn around and spend their profits on more band merch, why can’t they?

Their concerts usually don't have MC's or encores, so they're pretty short. The oneman usually has around one hour. In west they played their 8 released songs, also the two live-only songs that they have 走馬灯 (Soutamou <- thats my favorite Kizu song so far tho, i really want them to release in a CD) and 夢(Yume) Plus they also played 傷痕 that was not released back the time. Well there's also 中庭 (Nakaniwa) that's actually their "introduction" song. So in total there was 12 songs setlist.

I guess after thinking about it, a subforum for overseas vk isn't necessary, cuz there's not a lot out there. As for vk and non-visual threads in the news forum - sorry for drifting offtopic -, I think it should stay as it is, it's not that hard to add the "general" tag as the prefix, or you can just, y'know, skip it if you don't care. I don't think it's necessary to segregate the two as this is a Japanese rock forum after all.

When I saw them at Tsutaya the live was really short since they only had like 8 songs at the time. I want to say like 45mins or less and there wasn't a MC at all if I remember correctly but they are doing well

The video is not the right one.

I'm still stuck on the fact they actually went to tanuki of all places for proof lmao

Pretty sure brengun aka darkwater already made this thread not to mention they're really barely enough bands of this sort forming each year to warrant their own news section let alone an entire sub-forum. If it happens it happens I guess I don't really care either way since I won't use it anyway but just seems like unessasary clutter when we already have an international music section. We may as well start a sub-forum for international music of every genre by that logic. Like I said pointless but I have no control over changes and additions to this forum, so I voted no.

I noticed the session too and was wondering if he moved to Tokyo. Would be really cool if they are Tokyo-based. I felt COCKROACH. played too rarely in Tokyo and i didnt want to fly to Sapporo everytime to see Kyotaro live, lol.

Only problem I have with D.L.N. is the way they keep repeating the chorus at the end.

omfg how could I forget D.L.N It's great, especially live.

How come no one mentioned D.L.N it’s so good

Can time just fly away faster, i want my vacation already...

Im pissed that we don't get to have a true llll-ligro- comeback. Listening to INVICTA is depressing because I know I'll never get more of that greatness.

Calm Envy is one of my favs

but what if there are only two stalls?

all the "who?" 's are making me feel a million years old

well guess it didn't take long for things to take the piss after attempting to be positive, one of my tarantulas died right after I got the shit news about the job, and then my grandma is back in the hospital on chemo. world don't want anyone to win lol. but still not giving up. unfortunately tonight's post is still old: this being the only new thing i've drawn...and it doesn't really count for much lol

hello again

3/4's of them ripped their look from multiple stages of DADAROMA.

環 (Tamaki) is ex-Chiodo-->アンフェイト (Unfate) and 心 (Kokoro) is f.k.a. 彩 (Aya) A photo of a session all the members did a few months ago:

Tracklist : 01. 生斬る(Namakiru) 02. 痕(Ato) 03.ヨクマミレンサ(Yokumamirensa) (regular edition A only) 03.bitter Greed chocolate (regular edition B only)

Finally got some more La'veil MizeriA ^^

So I found the kanji lyrics from their blog and I was wondering if someone here would be kind enough to romanize and maybe even translate them for me. ^^ Thanks in advance! Here's the kanji: 二枚舌 作詞 遼 作曲 遼 編曲 ヴァージュ 何カトイツモ綺麗事並ベ お安イ正義ヲ振リ撒イテ 不都合アレバ逃ゲ癖発揮デ ドッチガ本当ノ顔デスカ？ ア～キライダ！ 善者ブッタ 偽善者失セロ キミハボクヲ恨ンダ ボクハキミヲ笑ッタ 腐ッタソノ目ヲシッカリコジ開ケ タマニハ己ヲ見ツメナサイ 裏デハ他人ノ不幸ガ好物 汚イ心ハ満タサレマスカ？ ア～キライダ！ 善者ブッタ 偽善者失セロ キミハボクヲ恨ンダ ボクハキミヲ笑ッタ 幼稚ナ理想、意味ヲ成サナイ 曲ガッタ悪モ白ニ染マッタ 悲シイ顔シテ素顔ハ隠シテイクノカ？ ゴ都合主義デ理性ヲ保ツ 縋ッテバカリデ愚カダッタ心ノ無イ者ヨ 失ウ前ニ悔イ改メヨ ア～キライダ！偽善者失セロ ア～キライダ！ 善者ブッタ 偽善者失セロ キミハボクヲ恨ンダ ボクハキミヲ笑ッタ 幼稚ナ理想、意味ヲ成サナイ 曲ガッタ悪モ白ニ染マッタ 悲シイ顔シテ素顔ハ隠シテイクノカ？ ゴ都合主義デ理性ヲ保ツ 縋ッテバカリデ愚カダッタ心ノナイ者ヨ ボクハモウ見抜イテイルヨ 吐キソウニナル タダ皮肉ニモ曲ガッタ悪スラ降リ掛カッタ 被害者ヅラシテ本性ハ隠シテイクノカ？ ゴ都合主義デ理性ヲ保ツ 縋ッテバカリデ愚カダッタ心ノ無イ者ハ 表面上ダケハ素敵デシタ

source: MAL Arguably one of the most insane and stylistic classics, both in terms of action and storytelling. It's a weird spin on your typical coming-of-age story by the sadly defunct studio GAINAX. Now, supposedly funded by Adult Swim we have a sequel coming out sixteen years after the original. Discuss your thoughts on the original, sequel, theories, etc!