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Hello everyone, My name is Gamze, and I am a Master's degree student. I am writing my thesis on Visual Kei (which I am also a fan of) and visual kei fans. I am currently carrying out an online questionnaire for my thesis about visual kei fandom and their SNS habits as well as fan event participation. The questionnaire is completely anonymous. I would really appreciate it if you participate in the questionnaire. You can access it here: https://forms.gle/BTFbwfn5b7Y8AfRv5 Thank you so much, and I am very sorry if I caused any disturbances.

Click the link to the tweet and wait a bit after playing the clip a few times. It takes a while before the higher bitrate ver. 1280p version is served (there are three versions including 568p (w/ shite audio) and 640p (w/ comparable audio to the 1280p ver.) Here it is fully loaded: https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1220260237426298880/vid/720x1280/quRgWqspuG1DKzWu.mp4?tag=13

DISREIGN 5th single "HOAX" will be released at 2020/02/12.

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How in the bloody hell does a black woman in the U.S. have the unmitigated gall to utter the words "smash the patriarchy", when so many of our children are without fathers / single-motherhood is so rampant? Not to mention, there are over 64k missing black women and girls in the U.S. right now, and sex trafficking is at an all time high. Who's around to protect our women? The state could care less. Ya know, My dad passed away in early 2010. I was 23 at the time. I had a dream about him a few nights ago...He was in the back yard of what seemed to be one of our old houses, lying in the grass. The sun was just beginning to set, and with the light glimmering in the trees, it was a beautiful sight. I went and sat next to him as he lie there in the grass. We didn't say anything to each other....we just enjoyed the moment. It was very pleasant. There was no anxiety. No worries. It felt safe. It felt secure. There was just a very present joy there. That's what the presence of a strong, loving father feels like. And it's so sad that many children don't get to experience this because so many people have bought into the toxic lies of feminism that patriarchy is inherently abusive and men are expendable...so many have drunken the wine of this destructive culture that we're immersed in. I just pray we get to a point where men and women can properly respect one another and cultivate healthy, regenerative relationships....because all of this division is hurting EVERYONE, especially the children. Cuz then they gotta inherit all of our unprocessed trauma, poor decisions, and other bullshit. blah, this probably isn't coherent, but this is random thoughts.

fwiw though i'm at least 99% certain the extremely shit audio quality can be blamed on twitter because literally every single audio preview i've ever heard off the twittersphere sounded like it was recorded through a series of interconnected tin cans

looks like a teaser for GazettE in Beat Saber

Guys I think I just found out why D.I.D. never disbanded even though they stopped releasing stuff and doing lives. If the acronym means "Until The Day I Die" it will only disband when one of the band members die, or maybe its only when Akane dies? I don't know thats still a mistery I will keep you guys posted until I am able to use 120% of my brain capacity to figure out the rest Until then I will keep breaking PRs in the gym to Akane's beautiful voice and desperation fuelled lyrics.

hello sr. can you let us dream for a while xoxo

BONUS:

They sold out the limited donate-a-bag-of-animal-food-and-pay-the-half-of-the-price ticket. Still selling the normal one (which you still can pay the half if you are student) and the M&G. Anyway, some days ago someone from the organizers told that the tickets were "selling well" in general. In total, there was 300 tickets on sale. Let's see.

The album will be out in March...maybe too early to look for it at CD Japan.

RESULTS! On to the Results! ______________________________________________________________ Best Overall Artist/Band Best Album Best Single/Maxi-Single/EP Best Cover Art Best Look Best Newcomer Best Veteran Best PV Saddest Disbandment Most Overhyped Band Most Overhyped Release Most Underhyped Band Most Anticipated Release Band that Changed their Sound for the Best Band that Changed their Sound for the Worse Band that you spent most of your money on in 2019 What the hell were they thinking!? Award Best Revival/Returns Now I know what you're thinking: 2019 sucked for VK 😅. I agree lol but thank you to those who voted this year! Let's hope this new decade will be a return to form for the scene!

モンストロ MonstlloW NEW 6th SINGLE 『LadyKiller』 TYPE A CD+DVD TYPE B CD only 2020.04.xx

I didn't know where to fit this topic because wether it should be a suggestion or not. I just wanted to see if a list can be created of Japanese sites of where to buy visual kei/ Japanese CD's, DVD's, Band merch, Clothes, pictures of band members, posters and other related things as like general information for others. There also might be other sites not known to others. Maybe this could be pinned to the downloads section or somewhere on the forum. Maybe? In a way mostly band merch and v-kei clothes, thier brands, personally for me anyway. Ive found it more hard to find band merch compared to CD's because of how limited all that stuff is. I comprised a small list of official sites people already generally know and i know already. Maybe others might have sites not known Feel free to add to this list if anyone wants to https://puresound.co.jp https://www.cdjapan.co.jp https://tower.jp https://www.hmv.co.jp www.amazon.co.jp https://www.me-shop.net/cds.html https://mysound.jp https://crosscat.shop-pro.jp http://ktai.la-edison.com/pc https://shop.littlehearts.jp https://shopping.yahoo.co.jp/?sc_e=ytc https://shopping.dmkt-sp.jp www.mercari.com https://www.closetchild-cd.jp https://www.suruga-ya.jp

It's not for general vk bands, but for specific label/band stuff both glamscure and Starwave Records have webshop thatll ship internationally. They basically have everything here, cds, shirts, cheki, etc https://starwave.official.ec https://glamscure.stores.jp

Wait, they aren't releasing like a billion different versions of the single with only minor changes on each one? This is good. However 2000 yen seems quite a lot for three tracks, so these better be GOOD tracks! haha.

Banana Fish. Need I say more?

To the first part, the answer is most likely yes To the second part I'm not sure but I chedoara is like 15 bucks on most western digital platforms so I imagine that's how much itll cost for us. My guess is that theyll charge 3000 yen for it just on japanese platforms

Samples are out~ edit: Not many of these sound particularly interesting, but Shiina's and DIR EN GREY's covers seem pretty cool. Shiina even managed to re-write some of the lyrics into English it seems. 88kasyo is also okay, rest are skippable.

Compared to your average vk bands, Rijin and Aizounitsuki are high quality music videos (even Vanitas is for me), you can see they had budget for these, but the one they're teasing for this new album looks very amateur

Wait, I’m actually supposed to call this “misk”? That’s dumb I’m not doing that.

Okay, this is great. I will support DIMLIM for being this amazing and the first band I have ever followed since they were "born" (dimlim was born). Please show them support because this isn't bad at all!!!!!

I'm liking it more than the regular djenty -Polyphiac Dimlim stuff, so I'm definitely on board does this. Also, love Sho's tribute to 2001's 'Macabre' Kyo.

as it should be

I'm doing it. Not sue if question 4 is asking about my favorite artist or band tho. (I put both, just to be sure)

i cant believe people are willing to pay for what essentially amounts to a karaoke show at this point lmao

I really hope for a comeback. 😢

i was vibing to their remake album a few days ago...but huns this will never be released x

This is my fantasy for sure.

Well so Tatsuhisa is now a married man and I feel kinda uncomfortable going to bed listening to some married oldie moaning That's it /end journey as a seiota fujoshi

May the power of delicious curry fuel and hasten the recording process.

Meet Seth, the songwriter, near REC Studio Because I knew today was #curry day First is the beginning of the search for curry Because if you hear curry day, you won't be able to stay or stand? So it started with the ceremony of eating curry ... There is no space to write about REC ... Mana

yuck that name

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1st SINGLE「アリシア」 Release: 2020.03.18 TrackList: 1.アリシア 2.囚われのオピーオーン

I'm not sure if this was a promo shot or just a release cover, but I liked this one of The Birthday from around the release of "Piano" a lot. I like the one from around the release of "The Answer" and the matching album cover as well:

Here comes part 1 The Candy Spooky Theater Noir Fleurir SUICIDE ALI RENTRER EN SOI Madeth gray'll gemmik DANGER☆GANG Malice Mizer Byakura

I agree ! Nobody care about their past bands, who were very small (instead of Tokami maybe) I don't really like the song. MISAKI sounds weak. and it sounds like a Starwave band

Of course you would know this because you supposedly worked with them. Nobody would have guessed who they were just from one letter, I assure you.

Thinking about this thread again because I tried to find 蟻‘s (Ari) singles on Cdjapan and it returned only Ariana Grande in my search, confirming that she really is the one responsible for vkei being unpopular

cant stop imagining a timeline where they actually make it abroad but end up having their equipment stolen partway through the 'tour'

he has good potential for stand-up comedy after quitting vk/music scene for good x

lofi hiphop radio - beats to delay your album/not wear makeup to

😁🙏 could you please get the XELL lyrics of this song

This 47 prefectures shit again? First make a sold out concert in Tokyo lol

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