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Found a night club in FF14 that's really legit and I'm spending my Saturday dancing there with friends. Socialising in time of corona, everybody.

Just found out that one of my blog posts was used as a reference in the J-fash Wiki so I think I can call myself a credible Visual Kei historian now

Tonight i finally made the decision not get a divorce. Wish me luck that I will get to keep my kids.

Here's a summary of the post: Kana was diagnosed with adjustment disorder in January 2018 and he told the president of B'Forest Inc., but the president didn't understand and told him he was sick and fired him. In March he got an attorney and in June he filed a lawsuit against the president for power harassment and for money he was owed. In the first trial it was confirmed that B'Forest Inc. owed Kana 3.2 million yen and that the president did indeed partake in power harassment. The court ordered B'Forest Inc. to pay Kana 3.7 million yen. However the president made an appeal, and at the appeal hearing in August 2020 they reached a settlement in Kana's favor of 3.3 million yen and an apology for the president's lack of consideration towards Kana's disorder. Kana received the settlement in September. He couldn't write about it before because it was part of the trial, but he had been suffering from power harassment for years and eventually developed adjustment disorder because of it. Apparently the president never admitted to power harassment. Kana does not forgive the harassment and was initially adamant about the court's decision because he didn't want it to keep happening to his former label mates, but after the president appealed he just decided to accept the settlement. He wants his former label mates to be paid properly or to stop working for the label. He also made it a point to say that the president did apologize so no one should slander him or harass him because of this. In regards to how he's doing he says he is physically and mentally healthy. The trial took a long time and he had to get treatment for his disorder but he's glad he worked so hard and was rewarded by the trial. He didn't want to leave all the people that were concerned about him without answers, and he wanted to talk about his feelings over the last two and a half years, so this is why he made the post now. He would like to return to the stage again some day and hopes everyone is doing well during these times.

Hi, I'm selling some items from SUI's solo project David. Prices are in euros, but I ship worldwide! Feel free to ask anything. CDs: ✡️ 創生録 I ～Birth and Confession～ (Deluxe): 18€ (4̶0̶,̶6̶€̶) ✡️ Gothculture -断章-: 10€ (1̶8̶€̶) ✡️ Gothculture -Claustrophobia-: 10€ (1̶8̶€̶) ✡️ All three CD: 35€ (76,6€̶) Chekis: ✡️ 1 chekis: 5€ ✡️ 5 chekis: 22.5€ ✡️ 10 chekis: 40€ T-shirt: ✡️ 3rd Anniversary Tshirt, Size M: 15€ (3̶0̶€̶)

My new cover image happens to be my desktop background! It's nice to see two of my favourite musicians and greatest inspirations together like this Way more cooler than a sunset background or anything like that, I'd say 😛

Wow. I can't believe I waited this long to listen to Nalsist.

I quit my job 😐

4 Gothculture CD + the rehearsal CDr are sold! That was quick 😄

Well, I've been called: Rin / 린 / 凛 most of the time (korean and japanese friends) as they don't really use the "L" in their language hehe and for online I recently changed my name to Rize リゼ, the name sounds cool and also because りぜ from i.D.A is my fav guitarist ^^ so it's either Rin or Rize for me these days

karma: my… 『…deep』narcissism… can u even… re:late?… yoshiki: anyway here’s my 3rd self-produced biographic documentary I’ve been tirelessly working on since our band came back and never released that album we’ve been crafting together since 1994 please enjoy the original bluray and its separate 🔴youtube shitshow™ director’s cut - 『extended authentic producer vision ver. — GESAMT • 快作 • KUNSTWERK— 』 - for a separate subscription fee exclusive to yoshiki master-card you can only use for fxxkin spicy craft chips purchases otherwise, lots of love - Y

Well, enough people call me Saikou these days that I actually respond to it, so this would be my VK/band nickname, I think! I'd spell it like サイコー to keep the punny ambiguity between 最高 (best, greatest) and サイコ (psycho, psychopath).

the moran guitarist deserves better than this

Team Kana and fuck BP records

Well if it all comes down to lack of money, maybe they can do a EP release with an instrumental version of the latest single in 40-50 parts and release it digitally.

I mean, what's there to be happy about? A new single? Wow, other artists put out entire EPs (Bring Me the Horizon) or even albums (Tallah). Concert livestreams? Wow, one concert livestream, while other artists manage to put entire tours together (Suicide Silence). The very same livestream that's then included on the physical version of said single by the way. And then their label's audacity of uploading boring ambient versions of their songs in multiple parts to get some scrapes from their fans streaming those. As if that would make a difference. And it's not even done under the DIR EN GREY band name, so it's made even more obvious that it's just a cashgrab. Or their super-hyped livestreams that turned out to just be studio audio playlists, curated by the members. Wow, so imaginative, much special, what are Spotify playlists? Or their LIVE ARCHIVE, which could've been an insane database of all the stuff DEG has done over their career. Instead it's some random DVDs - not even a knot stuff, mind you - that every fan with the bare minimum of interest has already watched. Or that the label acts as if putting the music on streaming websites would be this supersuper cool thing, that nobody has ever thought of, when streaming has been huge for years. Only to THEN put out fucking radio edit versions of their songs. Of course this pandemic doesn't hit everyone with the same force, but compared to almost all other bands I listen to, DEG hasn't done a whole lot. And of course I know that they're currently writing and recording their next album. But even then they could do stuff like vlogs or so. Or maybe I'm just salty because shit-krad keeps striking my videos lol

More information is coming out https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/efb36c125f80e468cd3f27355eedcf34c1b1526a Translation of above article by codomo dragon spain: https://codomodragonspain.blogspot.com/2020/11/codomo-dragon-special-translation-to.html Some notes: There is some discrepancy between the machine translation/my interpretation and the translation by codomo dragon spain. I don't think Kana has contacted anyone from Codora since 2018. Rather, it was his "bandmen friends" (who are not from Codora) who suggested that he hold a live in the future. (From here: バンドマンの友だちに連絡をとったら、『ちゃんとファンの前で公表したほうがいい』『ライブを一度やったほうがいいんじゃないか』と言われました。 and this: 仲の良かったコドモドラゴンのメンバーたちとも会えていない。 ) Their profit split was originally 50:50 between the band and company but the band had to take a smaller cut due to a 2017 scandal. (Chamu pls) Tweet from CEO of BForest/BPrecords saying he will refrain from further comments on this matter. Fun fact: Kana's attorney composed a song for HKT48 lol